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Hi Tom,

I follow you on the link profile but I honestly don't think we've been that aggressive

Yes, we've been hit with numerous spammers and have been trying to clean up but not good enough I suppose. Will look into that one.

Mike

Hi Mozzers!

Need some help/advice

I’m running a sports betting site – superbetting.com and around 16-19^th may our organic traffic suddenly dropped with 60-70% or so and ever since we’ve been struggling trying to find the cause and not least, been trying to do something about.

A few observations / thoughts;

• It seems we’ve suddenly have quite a few inbound links from Russia without promoting our content / site towards Russian users. Neither do we have any Russian content. Should we disavow those links and/or try to contact the sites to get our link removed?
• Looking in ahrefs, I can see that anchors also suddenly are dominated by Russian. Maybe obvious given the above but still strange …
• We have struggled with spammers trying to deploy link in our forum and have just recently removed them ( or at least we think we have) but could those bad links been hurting us over time?
• Google ran an algo update in may regarding “quality signals” and I full aware that our site may not be top-notch but I can’t belief that should have hit us that hard since I (and I may be biased :)) would say that there are far lousier sites ranking better than us now than before.

Any feedback would be appreciated

Thanks!

Mike