What to do about bad backlinks hurting authority?
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My site has many backlinks from 208.109.47.246/* and go.diaodou.com/* which have low authority. The 208.109.47.246 I believe is my godaddy IP and I don't know why I have the diadou links. Is there anything I can do about these links other than building other more reputable links? Could switching hosts or going to a dedicated IP solve the 208.109.47.246 issue?
Here is a look at the links- http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/www.mueslifusion.com%252F/a!links
Thanks,
Ian -
In this case, there is nothing that needs to be done.. you are good to go but in future if there are too many bad links and you suspect negative SEO in play, and you think its affecting you, you may want to create are report and send it to Google with detailed explanation.
Hopefully, in future Google allows an option in webmaster tools where you could just go and 'flag' or 'disallow' any backlink that you think is bought by competition to get you down.
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Thanks for the feedback! Glad I don't have to worry about them.
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I wouldn't worry too much about a couple of bad backlinks. Like you proposed yourself I would just go after many more quality backlinks which will make these couple of bad links just another part of your natural link profile.
Added to the above is the fact that I recall Matt Cutts saying that incoming links can never hurt your rankings (assuming they aren't part of some kind of bigger link scheme), unfortunately I can't seem to find the source for that quote anymore.
No worries!
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The links you are referring to are all 302 codes. They do not pass any PR or link juice. They are not hurting your site in any manner.
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