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I feel like I'm wasting time by going out and creating backlinks for a new page to increase page authority, especially when I've already got the domain link for domain authority.

In your opinion, how important is it to go out and create back links for a page? - am I wasting time I could be using towards creating more great content?

Shannon Peel
Telling Stories about Women
MarketAPeel

Thanks for asking this question - it reminded me that I still have to do this.

QUESTION: Does it have to be called FAQ? or can it be called something else that has more to do with the keywords of the site to be effective?

Quality over quantity... Always a good thing.

I work on this constantly but get overwhelmed with all the information. How to you prioritize your tasks to ensure you are efficiently getting quality backlinks?

@BlueprintMarketing
Thank you for this... it is helpful.

I use the link list from Moz and others to help me find out which profiles and forum posts are spammers then I delete and 301 to a 404 page to ensure that URL is 404ed.

I get too many a day and it is a waste of my time.

@tyrerunner I have not found a solution. When I interviewed SEO specialists on my podcast, I asked them and they said Google would ignore them and not to worry - Which I can see when I look at the backlinks Google Search Console has.

The problem is all these SEO tools showing thousands of these backlinks and making it harder for me to use the tool efficiently.

I followed the backlinks and found I'm in good company in these lists of links, it's just too bad that the anchor text is wrong because some of those back links have a decent ranking.

I did go to some of the higher ranked sites and when appropriate, created my own content with links using the right anchor text in the hopes that the matching keywords would help make it clearer - but they have yet to show up on any of the SEO tools or Google.

I did have a few visits from Google looking for that service but I think they were from before I deleted the posts - so the keywords were there to match - I've since fixed that problem.

I deleted the posts on my site but the url doesn't disappear and the page it lands on was empty so I 301 the pages to a 404 telling visitors the site is about brand storytelling and linked to the different pages if they were interested. This 404 page was already developed for those times a page load messed up.

I asked Google - no one has answered me there.

I have offered to sell an ad page on my site to a company and 301 all the links to it. - Not sure if this is a good idea - but I'd like to benefit somehow

If you come up with a solution or a better way to deal with all this spam and still get good data out of Moz etc... please let me know.

Moz is showing thousands of backlinks to my site that are not showing up on Google Search Console - which is good because those links were created by some spammer in Pakistan somewhere.

I haven't yet submitted a disavow report to Google of well over 10K links because the list keeps growing every day with new backlinks that have been rerouted to a 404 page.

I have asked Google to clarify and they put my question on their forum for an answer, which I'm still waiting for - so I thought I'd try my luck here.

My question...

If Moz does not match Google Search Console, and backlinks are important to results, how valid is the ranking that Moz creates to let me know how I'm doing in this competition and if I'm improving or not.

If the goal is to get Google to pay attention and I use Moz to help me figure out how to do this, how can I do that if the backlink information isn't the same - by literally over 10 000 backlinks created by some spammer doing odd things...

They've included the url from their deleted profile on my site with 100s of other urls, including Moz.com and are posting them everywhere with their preferred anchor text.

Moz ranking considers the thousands of spam backlinks I can't get rid of and Google ignores them or disavows them. So isn't the rankings, data, and graphs apples and bananas?

How can I know what my site's strength really is and if I'm improving or not if the data doesn't match?

Complete SEO Novice

Shannon Peel
Brand Storyteller
MarketAPeel

Hey - I got an idea.... Not sure if it would work but ... it might be a win - win and solve a problem.

I can sell you a page on my site to write up about escorts with strong keywords -

I can then 301 all those forum and profile pages about escorts that I have thousands of backlinks pointing to your ad / content page instead of the 404 page - There are some high DA and PA backlinks coming in with Escort anchor texts everything from 10-90 DR / DA - However, the Spam % is getting high on the sites linking back to me.

It's a waste of backlink juice as Google just ignores it because my site doesn't have those keywords.

I get easily 100 backlinks a day to the forum posts and profiles that the escort seo person created on my site and I deleted and redirected to a 404 page telling people I'm a brand storyteller.

It's frustrating because on all these SEO tools, the top anchor text for my site is Escort and Call Girl in some town I've never heard of and everyday I'm inundated with new links to these redirected pages.

I don't know how to get rid of any of it or fix it.

We're talking over 400 domains linking back to my site with the anchor text escort and call girl.

It's not going away and I'm NOT an escort site - I'm a brand storyteller.

Only thing - the page would not be in my menu or my site's main pages - I'd create a landing page for the ad/ content page.

If you want to talk about it - Reply to this post about how to get ahold of you.

Shannon Peel
Brand Storyteller
MarketAPeel

Maybe I should give you my site... Just kidding.

I have well over 12 000 back links and 3/4 of the sites linking to me with anchor texts are telling Google, I'm an Escort. I have no idea how to fix this.

If you want the list of backlinks maybe you can ask them to switch me out for you.

@mikeroberts Question for you - what if some spammer has added your url to a list then started copy pasting the list all over the Internet? Plus uses anchor text that has nothing to do with your site?

I've deleted the forum posts on my site they link back to - but am concerned this will give me too many 4xx errors. all links in forum posts are no follow,

@jonathanleplang yeah they will do that - remove them until they can verify - if they take the time to verify. They are preserving their reputation as. a reputable platform with real reviews. They can't tell the difference between real clients and fake ones - so they remove all suspicious ones. - including past ones b/c once something becomes suspicious the whole thing does

@tyrerunner I have not found a solution. When I interviewed SEO specialists on my podcast, I asked them and they said Google would ignore them and not to worry - Which I can see when I look at the backlinks Google Search Console has.

The problem is all these SEO tools showing thousands of these backlinks and making it harder for me to use the tool efficiently.

I followed the backlinks and found I'm in good company in these lists of links, it's just too bad that the anchor text is wrong because some of those back links have a decent ranking.

I did go to some of the higher ranked sites and when appropriate, created my own content with links using the right anchor text in the hopes that the matching keywords would help make it clearer - but they have yet to show up on any of the SEO tools or Google.

I did have a few visits from Google looking for that service but I think they were from before I deleted the posts - so the keywords were there to match - I've since fixed that problem.

I deleted the posts on my site but the url doesn't disappear and the page it lands on was empty so I 301 the pages to a 404 telling visitors the site is about brand storytelling and linked to the different pages if they were interested. This 404 page was already developed for those times a page load messed up.

I asked Google - no one has answered me there.

I have offered to sell an ad page on my site to a company and 301 all the links to it. - Not sure if this is a good idea - but I'd like to benefit somehow

If you come up with a solution or a better way to deal with all this spam and still get good data out of Moz etc... please let me know.

Hey - I got an idea.... Not sure if it would work but ... it might be a win - win and solve a problem.

I can sell you a page on my site to write up about escorts with strong keywords -

I can then 301 all those forum and profile pages about escorts that I have thousands of backlinks pointing to your ad / content page instead of the 404 page - There are some high DA and PA backlinks coming in with Escort anchor texts everything from 10-90 DR / DA - However, the Spam % is getting high on the sites linking back to me.

It's a waste of backlink juice as Google just ignores it because my site doesn't have those keywords.

I get easily 100 backlinks a day to the forum posts and profiles that the escort seo person created on my site and I deleted and redirected to a 404 page telling people I'm a brand storyteller.

It's frustrating because on all these SEO tools, the top anchor text for my site is Escort and Call Girl in some town I've never heard of and everyday I'm inundated with new links to these redirected pages.

I don't know how to get rid of any of it or fix it.

We're talking over 400 domains linking back to my site with the anchor text escort and call girl.

It's not going away and I'm NOT an escort site - I'm a brand storyteller.

Only thing - the page would not be in my menu or my site's main pages - I'd create a landing page for the ad/ content page.

If you want to talk about it - Reply to this post about how to get ahold of you.

Shannon Peel
Brand Storyteller
MarketAPeel

I feel like I'm wasting time by going out and creating backlinks for a new page to increase page authority, especially when I've already got the domain link for domain authority.

In your opinion, how important is it to go out and create back links for a page? - am I wasting time I could be using towards creating more great content?

Shannon Peel
Telling Stories about Women
MarketAPeel

@miriamellis Thanks for sharing these links.

As someone who worked in the online review world, I can say that a sudden increase in reviews - all good reviews - can trigger a red flag because it looks suspicious.

If you want to ensure you don't get flagged for suspicious activity, you need to ensure review activity looks plausible. If you have a huge amount of past customers and you are asking them for reviews, send out email requests for reviews in batches over an extended period of time so you are getting a few reviews a day and growing over time. Not a sudden spike.