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I've been looking around the web and a couple of places it says that when google

disavows they apply a "nofollow".  If indeed this is the case, we're already  "nofollowed" up the yen yang.

Do they apply a "nofollow"?

Back in 08 or 09 I purchased 2 link wheels, a couple of months apart, but how would that keep producing forever backlinks? They're not backlink generators. The were for anchor text links.

I got reports back for each assignment and they were all English websites
with an article post for us with our anchor text

I've been aware of backlink generators for years, but didn't go there.

So to answer your question build X number of links for $$...Nope

I sent PM.

Looks like Google slowly started "discovering" these in Nov and started to peak in Dec

According to the report, these links started slowly this past Nov.

No problems with Panda or Penguin.  We dropped 2 weeks ago.

Links aren't coming from directories, they'll all websites.

The only thing I've done as far as backlinks go was back in

2007 or 8 I published some articles and a couple of press releases and

yes it did use our core term as the anchor text

No email warning from Google in WMT, but from what I understand the only time

you get one is when the site is manually reviewed by a human as to an automatic algorithm adjustment.  Don't know if this is actually true or not.

Don't think that - that thought hasn't cross my mind, but the "nofollow" doesn't make sense for negative SEO, useless, if this IS the case, they didn't get what they paid for to really crush us with "follow" links.

This started this past Dec and caught up to us 2 weeks ago.

I"m amazed we're not banished with this off the wall link/domain/anchor text ratio. Maybe the "nofollow" is saving us so far.

As mentioned, my plan is to do a Google disavow at the domain level.

We got 6 New domains since yesterday, so this is going to be an ongoing task, since it started 2 1/2 months ago, I don't see it stopping anytime soon

Forgot to mention.  When I go to these links I can't find us ANYWHERE. Not for our term that's listed in report nor our domain

We've held Local listings at "A" for over a year.

2 weeks ago we dropped down to below the fold.

I ran several reports and our backlink report shows roughly over 10,000

and it's growing every day along with new domain referrals with

inbound spam links all using  the same core anchor text term.

One domain is responsible for over 2,000.  These sites

have Nothing to do with our industry and several in foreign

languages.

All these links are "NoFollow".

My question is.  Although "nofollow" is known to protect you, I'm wondering with over 10,000 of them coming from 345 sites, ALL using our one core term as an anchor text has red flagged us?  If so,I'm planning on using Google disavow at the "domain" level.

We are a local resort and until this happened we only had around 15 referral sites that are industry related. Hotels.com type sites and local tourist related sites.

These new inbound spam links are so blatant and yes they're "nofollow", but I'm starting to wonder IF this off the wall inbound spam link pattern IS  indeed affecting us?

Any thoughts?