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soulmktpro last edited by

Realizing that there are several links pointing to my domain, and most of them I do not recognize, who seem to have been made by a competitor in order to hurt me in Google, how should I to proceed?
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William.Lau last edited by

Try your best to remove them and if you receive a message from Webmaster Tools, you would need to let them know in good detail why and who is trying to do this.
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