Massive influx of links

Smith said:
Your recovery attempt, fail or pass, doesn't reflect whether this strategy works. It's one site, one data point, and from what I remember you were spinning up content with low-cost labor and AI... which doesn't sound like it's on the level with most of the guys on here.

And let's get real for a second.... who gives a fuck about testing? I'm not testing. I'm out here making fucking money. Like Carter said, in the trenches. This isn't some joke Baker, this is hand-to-hand combat. We're all waving fucking swords and following the warplan of General Grind and you want to sit down and do research. RESEARCH! You're not serious.

You want a data point? My on-page conversions (top of funnel) are up 200% in the past few days (NOT a typo). I don't know if it's going to stick. But what I do know is something is happening... but instead of sitting around and scratching my head trying to figure out what IT is, I'm just going to keep charging down the battlefield like a fucking lunatic until this project is complete. Because THAT is how you win!
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I am serious. I'd rather build a MVP, test it and if it works, scale it.

As for my level of SEO, I'm still learning :smile: If anyone knows anything better, let me know :smile:
 
What's the service to use to reindex the disavowed links? I have never done anything like this.
 
Fat Harry White said:
https://www.colinkri.com/
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Back because I can't quit this thread like a crazy stalker ex-girlfriend.

Salient points...

99.9% confirmed that Domain level disavow , URL level crawling efforts is the fastest route to recovery.

99.8% convinced that LRT will tell you links are spammier than they are and you'll disavow ones that will hurt the pages they go to.

No harm no foul if you build more links but will 100% be using Authority-Google Traffic-Keyword trinity going forward because I don't care what white-hat software thinks about links, I care what Google thinks.

Big lists, Colinkri gets expensive quick. Still using it but analyzing other more efficient methods. Links are always the fastest recovery.

There's probably more but I can't remember.

Also...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783558120670916735
 
To defend my character, I am going to tell you guys that I know of a $20,000,000 a year scale up that went down to almost zero. The majority shareholder told me that I can get a blank check if I know how to fix it. Hence why I'm doing my MVP. If I can show him that I know of a way to recover and can show him proof, I'll ask for $1,200,000. $600,000 upfront and $600,000 upon completion.

Thank you for your attention.
 
BakerStreet said:
To defend my character, I am going to tell you guys that I know of a $20,000,000 a year scale up that went down to almost zero. The majority shareholder told me that I can get a blank check if I know how to fix it. Hence why I'm doing my MVP. If I can show him that I know of a way to recover and can show him proof, I'll ask for $1,200,000. $600,000 upfront and $600,000 upon completion.

Thank you for your attention.
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Don't forget to spread some of the "blank check" around to all the services you can find through BuSo. I mean... you're probably going to need a lot of links for an operation of that size.
 
It's your network :smile: You guys need to get off of the PC and network more. Jesus christ. Plus, we still don't even know if the method works. This is only hypothetical.
 
BakerStreet said:
Plus, we still don't even know if the method works. This is only hypothetical.
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@Grind just LITERALLY posted another screenshot with a recovery.

Like I said some people will NEVER EVER believe no matter how many screenshots or posts with proof there are.
 
CCarter said:
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@Grind just LITERALLY posted another screenshot with a recovery.

Like I said some people will NEVER EVER believe no matter how many screenshots or posts with proof there are.
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Dude, it's a 1.2 million dollar ask. I need to be sure myself before I make it. I'm not gonna do it from "This online forum says it works." That'll ruin my reputation.
 
I have been watching this thread just LOL and feeling bad for the guys actually trying to help others out. This is the exact reason i stopped posting stuff on here trying to do the same. You get trolled or blasted for it. Not worth the time. The mindsets like this need to fucking change... srsly.

I have 25 - 30 projects going on between my own shit, partner shit, and client shit at any given time. I run more budget in testing new shit out and tolerances than a lot of the trolls running their fucking mouth on here. In sales its ABC, Always. Be. Closing. In SEO its ABT, Always. Be. Testing. If you cannot afford to be doing this, you should probably take as much free advice as you can get from some one who can or is doing it.

And BTW, i have been dissavowing this whole damn time (if you check over a year ago, i posted about it in the anchors % thread), people laughed at me or said it was a waste of time. Welp, when i have a site that has thousands of $'s and thousands of hours invested, you can bet your ass im going to be doing everything possible in my power to protect that investment. I guess we can see who is laughing now.
 
mj22 said:
I have been watching this thread just LOL and feeling bad for the guys actually trying to help others out. This is the exact reason i stopped posting stuff on here trying to do the same. You get trolled or blasted for it. Not worth the time. The mindsets like this need to fucking change... srsly.

I have 25 - 30 projects going on between my own shit, partner shit, and client shit at any given time. I run more budget in testing new shit out and tolerances than a lot of the trolls running their fucking mouth on here. In sales its ABC, Always. Be. Closing. In SEO its ABT, Always. Be. Testing. If you cannot afford to be doing this, you should probably take as much free advice as you can get from some one who can or is doing it.

And BTW, i have been dissavowing this whole damn time (if you check over a year ago, i posted about it in the anchors % thread), people laughed at me or said it was a waste of time. Welp, when i have a site that has thousands of $'s and thousands of hours invested, you can bet your ass im going to be doing everything possible in my power to protect that investment. I guess we can see who is laughing now.
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Yeah man, I went to Brighton SEO and listened to some advice from a guy that had a big following and has two SaaSes that he founded. I tested it. It was total shit. I even emailed him about it afterwards, about how my test of his advice turned out negative. No reply.

I actually lost $10,000 doing that test. lol. Fuck that guy.
 
BakerStreet said:
"This online forum says it works."
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So, what do you want from us than?

If everyone here that attempts it, succeeds, and posts screenshots, that still doesn't mean your execution will be successful. You might just be bad at SEO.

Smith said:
CMO, COO, CPO, CEO, and CTO.
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I'm almost died laughing at that one. Omg.
 
I've been following this thread for a couple of days now (late to the party I guess), and dug into the links reported across Ahrefs, SEMrush, and GSC. Holy hell the amount of hacked site spam I've found through GSC reports. And F... some of those pages are actually INDEXED in Google. None of the SEO tools picked them up, but Google sure showed me where they were.

I checked the pages of mine that were the targets of those... guess what? They've all slowly been bleeding traffic. Content was updated on many, but you guessed it... still continuing that downward trend.

Then an important question popped into my head. Google says don't worry about any of this shit until you get a manual penalty, all these SEOs say that Google knows which ones to ignore. Ok... How does Google know whether the links were created by the company linked in these hacked sites (for example) or whether someone else created it to take them down? They have the traditional markers of "co-citation" with big sites that are well insulated from these attacks, and then have the smaller sites referenced throughout. Most look like GSA type spam.

But really. How does Google know which were created to take you down vs which ones you created to manipulate search engine rankings?
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I can't answer that question, so surely I'm down the rabbit hole of reviewing as many links as I can find pointing to my sites and following the process laid out here. What's the worst that could happen? The pages are losing traffic already. I'd rather try to stop the bleed with this test and invest a few dozen hours into it instead of waiting for them to go to zero.

Thanks for the ideas and advice here to all who shared.
 
Anyone have a bulk DA checker? Don't need to know anything else. Just DA for about 20K domains.
 
Let's file this one under "shit I should probably know"...

I have a Poker site sending me 10 links. It's a site for industry participants, not a casino. DR 29. The poker site's articles are legit linking to my site for topically relevant content, though I'm not in that space and worry it could be seen as negative by Google.

Would you guys disavow or let it ride?

I don't think it will have an impact one way or the other when we're talking 30k spam links vs a few DR 29 links... but just wondering what would you guys do with these?
 
I haven't been obsessed with something like this in a long time.

Have spent the last 2 days working non-stop through multiple migraines (let's face it, doing this stuff sucks!) and have a disavow list of around 25K domains (domain blacklist) that I have now uploaded.

I went ape shit and gathered as many links from as many sources as I could.

Along with that I have a list of around 60K actual links to get recrawled. Will wait 72 hours from now and then get that side of things cranking.

Seriously pumped to see how this plays out.

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Me finally saving that last damn CSV.
 
Didn't really get hit by the update but went ahead with spring cleaning and disavowed about 2/3rds of all the backlinks. Although it seemed like the bulk of that came from only about 10~ domains or so.

Went to go upload my disavow file and realized that there was already one there from last year haha.
 
Smith said:
Let's file this one under "shit I should probably know"...

I have a Poker site sending me 10 links. It's a site for industry participants, not a casino. DR 29. The poker site's articles are legit linking to my site for topically relevant content, though I'm not in that space and worry it could be seen as negative by Google.

Would you guys disavow or let it ride?

I don't think it will have an impact one way or the other when we're talking 30k spam links vs a few DR 29 links... but just wondering what would you guys do with these?
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Agreed this probably wouldn't have a big impact either way - but makes for a good talking point.

Considering that it's not relevant to your niche, my checklist would be:
  • Is the poker site ranking well in Google? If it's dead, probably disavow
  • Are the anchors exact match, strong partial match, or targetting images on your site? If so, probably disavow
  • Is the DTOX Score (if you have LRT) >500? If so, probably disavow
  • But if the anchors are natural, the site's traffic is steady/growing, and the site's backlink profile seems good? Probably keep
Being extra strict since it's not in your niche. If it was a site relevant to your niche I'd look for more reasons to keep the links.

Curious to know if others agree with all that.

Darth said:
Along with that I have a list of around 60K actual links to get recrawled. Will wait 72 hours from now and then get that side of things cranking.
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JOoa0ky said:
Didn't really get hit by the update but went ahead with spring cleaning and disavowed about 2/3rds of all the backlinks. Although it seemed like the bulk of that came from only about 10~ domains or so.
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Nice one, looks like we're all on a similar timeline. Looking forward to seeing what happens over the next few weeks.
 
JOoa0ky said:
Didn't really get hit by the update but went ahead with spring cleaning and disavowed about 2/3rds of all the backlinks. Although it seemed like the bulk of that came from only about 10~ domains or so.

Went to go upload my disavow file and realized that there was already one there from last year haha.
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Same - didn't get hit. And this is my fist time disavowing. But after getting links from GSC, Ahrefs & Majestic, I realized i'm nowhere in the same field as some of you guys. I have ~2k backlinks... but only disavowed around 100. Kinda scratching my head with that one. Seems like my site is off it its own little corner, away from the shitshow highway that attracts mass attention. Now this holds good to the 'theory' that bad links weigh down your site - I just got lucky with avoiding them in the first place.

Anyways, not expecting a change with that small amount of disavows. Hang in there bros.

P.S - I should really update/conclude that journal thread I started way back :|

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