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How is it a false positive if there are thousands of spam links still pointing to the domain?

nostromo 14y ago
Because Google wants to get searchers to the best content for the query, not to the content with the fewest spammy links. Usually they are correlated, not always though.
- aaronwall 14y ago
  What's correlated? Are you saying that pages with great content typically have few spammy links? If so, the jury is out on that thesis, as many of the most popular sites have hundreds to thousands of spam sites that scrape just about everything the do & many of those scraper spam sites do link to the original source. And just by ranking for valuable keywords, over time you will likely get some spammy inbound links from sites that are scraping the Google search results.
nhebb 14y ago
How is the typical person supposed to know that there are thousands of spammy backlinks to a site? As far as I know, Google doesn't provide any tools to discover this information. There is, of course, Google Webmasters Tools, but that would only apply after you have purchased the domain. It wouldn't do any good in this case.
- TomAnthony 14y ago
  There are a few third party indexes used by SEOs for this purpose: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ https://www.majesticseo.com/ https://www.majesticseo.com/ https://ahrefs.com/ https://ahrefs.com/ Even once you own the domain, the links Google reports in GWT can be rather hit and miss...
OGinparadise 14y ago
>> "How is it a false positive if there are thousands of spam links still pointing to the domain?" I can accuse you of being a murderer but the police aren't going to arrest or ruin your (financial) life automatically. Give me your site name and I'll give you a $5 gift, a gift that keeps giving for life with Google :) http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=senuke&x=0&y=0 http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=senuk... Google sure loves to have all that power because it can translate it into tens of $ billions. Minus the responsibility of course because that costs money.

Because Google wants to get searchers to the best content for the query, not to the content with the fewest spammy links. Usually they are correlated, not always though.

aaronwall 14y ago
What's correlated? Are you saying that pages with great content typically have few spammy links? If so, the jury is out on that thesis, as many of the most popular sites have hundreds to thousands of spam sites that scrape just about everything the do & many of those scraper spam sites do link to the original source. And just by ranking for valuable keywords, over time you will likely get some spammy inbound links from sites that are scraping the Google search results.

nhebb 14y ago

How is the typical person supposed to know that there are thousands of spammy backlinks to a site? As far as I know, Google doesn't provide any tools to discover this information. There is, of course, Google Webmasters Tools, but that would only apply after you have purchased the domain. It wouldn't do any good in this case.

TomAnthony 14y ago
There are a few third party indexes used by SEOs for this purpose: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ https://www.majesticseo.com/ https://www.majesticseo.com/ https://ahrefs.com/ https://ahrefs.com/ Even once you own the domain, the links Google reports in GWT can be rather hit and miss...

OGinparadise 14y ago

>> "How is it a false positive if there are thousands of spam links still pointing to the domain?" I can accuse you of being a murderer but the police aren't going to arrest or ruin your (financial) life automatically. Give me your site name and I'll give you a $5 gift, a gift that keeps giving for life with Google :) http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=senuke&x=0&y=0 http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=senuk... Google sure loves to have all that power because it can translate it into tens of $ billions. Minus the responsibility of course because that costs money.