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Hi - I was looking in my Google webmaster tools because we saw a huge jump in backlinks last week. We found this one article with 84,475 total links, which obviously stands out as spam. All the links are from 1 page and 1 domain (financeai.com). This is the article on our website - http://loyalty360.org/resources/article/engaging-customer-atmosphere-at-pizza-patron and webmaster tools says all the links back to it come from this page http://financeai.com/forex/mxn/pkr/q/39665 My question is - should we/what can we do to clean this up? How does this impact our search ranking? We have had some issues with our website getting extremely slow overnight, and we believe the site scraping is really slowing down the site at points. Thanks.

Hi all, I just wanted to ask you all about backlinks that redirect to your site. I recently used Link Detox Tools to carry out a link analysis. However, some of our backlinks are redirecting to our homepage. Is this ok? Why is this happening? Thanks guys!!!

Hi I would like to ask Im doing  SEO for gambling related website should I post articles only on the relevant blogs,  websites related to gambling? I found website with pagerank 4 where you can submit artcile to blog.  There is so many articles related to different topics (gambling, sport, finance, health, traveling ) If I submit article this kind of website how google handle with backlink? Does it has positive impact for seo?

I'm working with a site owner who recently hired an SEO to work on just one particular type of keyword.  It seems like the more work the SEO did, the lower the keyword gradually dropped.  Granted, the "work" is pretty low quality - anchor texted bookmarks, comments and low quality articles.  We're doing an experiment where we are going to disavow those links and see if the previous rankings return. Another site that I am consulting with has a lot of good natural links and then some anchor texted links, but from decent sources - some guest posts (on good sites - not a spammy site that exists only for guest posts) and some places where decent websites have agreed to link to the site.  The anchor texted links do not make up very much of the overall anchor text.  There is good diversity and lots of brand and url anchored links.  It seems like the more the SEO does for this site, the more the rankings drop.  And it's not all about anchor text.  The SEO placed a link in a relevant directory, using the url as anchor...rankings dropped a little.  They obtained an expired domain with relevant and very natural links and 301'd it to the new domain...rankings dropped several places.  And so on.  Occasionally the rankings will pop up a little, but overall it's a downward spiral. Check out this post by Gary Taylor.  He did an experiment where he took an established site that was ranking well and threw some spammy links at it.  To quote the article, 'every day goes by my ranking for the term “domains” is getting harder to maintain.'  He recently tweeted that he has been removing and disavowing links and the rankings are returning. I was looking at searches for real estate related terms in different cities.  In some cities, the top sites are ones that have ZERO obvious SEO done to them.  There are sites ranking on page 3 that have been SEO'd, and not all of them have poor SEO.  Many are what I would consider really well done.  Some of the sites ranking on page 1 have under 10 links.  There was one with 2 followed links and they were not from super authoritative sites! To complicate matters though, if you look at searches like "Toronto Real Estate Agents" some of the top sites have lots of keyword anchor texted links. Perhaps this should be a blog post rather than a Q&A, but I would love to hear some of your thoughts.  My personal thought is that Google's main goal with Penguin and the unnatural links warnings is to make it so that not only is it not profitable to try to manipulate the SERPS, but that every time you try to do so, you potentially do your rankings harm. I used to say that Penguin could only affect a site on the date of a Penguin refresh, but I am thinking now that Google has managed to roll Penguin into the algorithm to some extent  so that it can demote the majority of any work that smells of SEO. Thoughts?

Hi I was wondering if any one knows of an automatic updating service that notifies you when a back link to a site becomes live? Could this be achieved in google alerts perhaps?

Thanks to sites like SEOmoz and good folks like yourselves I was able to understand enough about SEO to know that the company we outsourced the SEO to were doing at best a sloppy job. I have seen that the link profile of site is totally unnatural in terms of factors such as relevancy and anchor text but also that around 95% of the 800 links are no follow. My question is whether these low quality no follow links causing unnatural anchor text ratios and poor link relevancy would hurt our rankings? I am basically wondering if I have to now go and try to have all those links removed somehow to avoid any problems going forward?