Timeline for Dealing with thousands of malicious broken links
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:33 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/ with https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 20:46 | vote | accept | Stoinov | ||
| Feb 25, 2014 at 1:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWebmasters/status/438125968059035648 | ||
| Feb 24, 2014 at 23:04 | history | edited | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed title to indicate that these are inbound links of "malicious" intent.
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| Feb 24, 2014 at 21:06 | comment | added | MrWhite | Bit of an aside, but... if they are really trying to discredit you, why aren't they linking to your actual content, rather than non-existent pages (URLs that have presumably never existed)? Also, the fact that they are linking from just a single domain, that you have determined they own would also seem to be a bit of a mistake on their part. (I'm sure that if you can easily determine the owner (and relationship) of the domain, so can Google.) | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 20:18 | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | I second w3ds advice. A 301 tells search engines that these urls exist (so they will probably punishment, at least for duplicate content). If these are Urls to non-existant pages you should mark them as such (i.e. send a 404). | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 20:17 | answer | added | dan♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 20:15 | history | edited | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Title seemed incomplete, grammar
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| Feb 24, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | MrWhite | I would have said you certainly don't want to 301 these to a real page. IMO a 404 is preferable. These are sites that you don't want to be associated with. I'm not convinced that the advice given in the linked question is good, since it is only stated later in a comment that the inbound links are in fact from "dodgy sites", which seems to have been misinterpreted/overlooked?! You could also consider disavowing these links (the domain that they are originating from). | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 18:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 24, 2014 at 17:40 | history | asked | Stoinov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |