Sudden surge in discovered links
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Hi everyone,
Recently Moz discovered a lot of old backlinks to my url. Some of them don't even exist anymore. I don't understand how Moz has found these links, even if they don't exist? And why did Moz find them suddenly all at once?
Can anyone help me with this question?
Thanks!
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What your business wants is quality links, and you want to build them over a very long period of time. For example, you want to get quality links, but from many different quality websites, like BBC News, but you want to get these over a long period.
We actually had a website was linking to us, sending thousands of links and this can damage your search engine optimisation if they are low quality links. Instead what you are high quality links. The links must also be relevant to your business, so we sell luxury summerhouse, so we only want links from gardening websites.
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Hi there,
Sam from Moz's Help Team here!
Could you pop a message about this over to [email protected] with your account information/site URL, as well as some examples of some of the links in question so we can take a look at this for you?
Thank you!!
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Hi there,
I think they updated their backlinks Database.
Ross
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