How To Deal With Low Quality Backlinks

By Author: Christine Atkinson
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Webmasters using the Webmaster Tools are often interested in knowing what all incoming links they are receiving for their site. Secondly they are very eager to know what they should be doing when they encounter links of low-quality.

As the owner of a site you will obviously try hard and create a very good reputation not only for yourself but also for your organization. So it is natural for people to believe that if they receive incoming links of poor or degraded quality then that will obviously lead to thinking that the particular site is not good.
Also it does not seem to belong to any good neighbourhood. Over time this will surely affect the site’s ranking and bring it down considerably.

Although it is very true that linking is a very important aspect of the ranking algorithm employed by Google, there are many more such factors. There are factors like an engaging content, useful services and uniqueness which drive people to use your service or site for that matter.

Some other factors which relate to this are the design and appeal of the site, the arrangement and spacing of words in a particular ...
... page. Also the ease with which a user’s query is addressed or how easily a user is able to identify the answer to a particular query is also as significant.

Links coming from sites of lower quality should not be a matter of concern for you as this is not the only aspect which Google sees as a criterion for judging your site. Thus of your site has user friendliness, and high quality with a good structure than you will obviously score above others in this respect. A regularly maintained and well constructed site is always appreciated by any user more than anything else.

It is always possible for any owner to not only have a site of high quality but also have back links of good quality. This is always possible in this ideal world. There always remains a concern that a user’s perception about a particular site might get affected or be negative if the user comes to know about the site from a bunch of links which are actually full of spam.

It is best advisable to get detached from these links coming from other sites. This can only be done if the poor quality links are actually manageable. Then it is always better to opt out from such linking. You should give a try at contacting the owner of the concerned site and personally asking them to remove links pointing your site.

It is however to be kept in mind that Google does not perform any such thing on your behalf, also they don’t perform content management of any sort, they only perform indexing of any content found over the net.

You however should not be concerned or fret on this for two long if you happen to encounter any uncooperative owner. Rather it is always better to focus and concentrate on things which are under your direct control because as a webmaster you can hardly control links to a site. So it is better to go for site reviews from forums of webmaster, manage your content well conduct usability studies which will help you improve ranking and indexing to a great extent.

Also you can take a leaf out from your competitors into what strategy they are employing and why you would visit their site more.

Finally try and remember that links of lower quality will hardly impact you in the long run but factors under your control like a site’s view, organization, and usability will always affect it positively.

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Low quality backlinks can get you into serious trouble, especially after the latest Google algorithm change.