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Has anything changed in recent months in terms of possible solutions for negative SEO (specifically spammy backlinks)? Is the only “solution” still a disavow file? Does anyone know of ANY way to find out where the links are being generated from? Is it possible to track the links back to a …
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Another one for the shame file. We'll be discussing this one tomorrow night, +Sasch Mayer . If you're not there, we'll talk about you. :)
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Comment by Jim Munro — January 8, 2014 @ 7:34 am
Wonder when he forwarded the domains over and their respective size… if they were large, he could have tripped a wire on domain merging.
Comment by Micah Fisher-Kirshner — January 8, 2014 @ 8:20 am
I did not see that. Where did he say it?
Comment by Jim Munro — January 8, 2014 @ 8:33 am
https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/webmasters/nRn_WkOjN9I/TWaZ8ENh0W0J Think it's 302 though, but may not matter.
Comment by Micah Fisher-Kirshner — January 8, 2014 @ 4:31 pm
A couple of comments have been deleted. I think that's a good thing, it might mean that there is still a flicker of a conscience there but they've still got Ashley blithely saying this in relation to RapGenius "I'm confident there was no special treatment. They got busted; they had a manual penalty, and from what I know – worked through it (they probably have a lot more resources than you do).If there was special treatment, like you – I'd be pissed. "
The thread has now moved on to establishing the guilt of the site owner for doing things that have been recommended by Matt Cutts in the past.
How do they sleep at night?
Comment by Jim Munro — January 8, 2014 @ 10:50 pm
To wit, it is possible that rap genius took Matt Cutts advice and disavowed all the links from their program to show good faith and got back in quickly that way.
But yeah, hands down they had some connection to get their request heard over others…
Comment by Micah Fisher-Kirshner — January 9, 2014 @ 4:23 am