How Do You Remove Links To Your Site

[draytond]

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I'm having some real issues with my site High Tops bouncing around and I think it may have something to do with some spammy links to my site.

Is there any way of deleting links to a site from this end as I can't seem to remove the links from the originator.

Obviously any further help on how I can stop this bouncing around would be gratefully received. Thought I'd got through Panda without much problem but now it's all gone wrong.

Thanks for your help

Debbie

[scriptmonkey]

It may be difficult to see where your position should be in the SERPS for a 3 month old site, wait until it has some age before worrying about it jumping around.

[euraffiliates]

I faced a similar problem and I discovered it while I was analyzing weblizer stat header messages and noticed that "404 page not found" more than "200 OK". Initially I thought that I have renamed the pages in the website which are ranked in Google (Normally I set 301 redirect when I delete/rename an old page). But what I saw some URI I never created, most with horrible query string.

Normally these are all done by bad crawlers. It attempts to hack your site by creating a logged session. Sometimes these are done by viruses and actual objective is just to harm. More will be your site popular, more you will face this problem. At least I faced.

I tried to solve initially by writing on the robots.txt but it did not work. These bad crawlers never bother about internet ethics.

Then I wrote an Application firewall to stop these on a proactive basis. I divided the site areas and set different rules for different areas. Say admin area can be accessed by IPs ... (my IP and My developers IPs & user agent). Logged areas - some less restricted rule. Open areas ... least restricted rule. But in all cases I stopped unknown crawlers or doubtful ones.

We have copied the idea in our affiliate software to add more security. You can have a look at article Firewall in Affiliate Software

Shoud you need further help please let me know.

[simonk]

Matt Cutts twittered this earlier in the week:

Today's webmaster video: Can I flag spammy links to my site that I didn't create? YouTube - Can I flag spammy links to my site that I didn't create?

[apg1985]

If your linking to a bad neighbourhood that might effect it, but if your not linking out, it should not have any effect on your serp's. Why? Because companies would be building bad links to its competitors in the hope to drop there rankings, make sense.

Google will sometimes push a website right up to position 1-5 as soon as a website is indexed for a week then drop it to page 15, this might happen one more time and then finally rank on page 8, it doesnt know where to put you so its pushes you up, gives others the chance to notice you maybe LINK to you, uses that info to then rank you.

I dont know for a fact but I have heard this theory lots of times on lots of different forums.

If you want to concrete your position, build anchor text links for the search term. I do know for a fact this will work.

[euraffiliates]

I think I mistook the issue. I gave solutions for spam visitors. I am sorry for giving answers to a different question.

Here is my comment to your query.

There are difference of opinion on this. We have heard many times that google has penalized a site for giving spammy links or paid links (to manipulate PR flow or links to unrelated pages). But never heard for bad 3rd party links. If they would do it, the competitors would easily kill his competitors.

Unless you have linked back to those spammy site or googlebot considers it as your own site, you will not be penalized. The googlebot may check the hosting IP and / or domain ownership or something in the generated HTML that may lead to think that the other website is owned by you.

In short unless those sites are not yours you or you have shown any short of association with them (you have linked them back from the your site or from any other sites that are closely associated with your site) you will not be penalized.