Competition spams site with xRumer

albaniax

Elite Member

Aug 5, 2008

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #1

Hey fellows,

One client has a problem - He's getting hit from January by a big xRumer submission. There are a lot of profiles pointing to his ecommerce website.

Now 2 days ago, some keywords started to drop - It looks like a -50 penalty.

There were already a lot of pages hit by this, but you have to consider, that there are over 10.000 other page's still ranking as before.

So his site, evolved the last months to a big authority site. Yet, this happened.

My suggestion was, to filter the links pointing to the site. Like all incoming links to www.domain.de who has s.th. like "member.php?" in the URL.

Any other suggestions?

 

ohaider

Senior Member

Jul 28, 2011

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #2

albaniax said:

Hey fellows,

One client has a problem - He's getting hit from January by a big xRumer submission. There are a lot of profiles pointing to his ecommerce website.

Now 2 days ago, some keywords started to drop - It looks like a -50 penalty.

There were already a lot of pages hit by this, but you have to consider, that there are over 10.000 other page's still ranking as before.

So his site, evolved the last months to a big authority site. Yet, this happened.

My suggestion was, to filter the links pointing to the site. Like all incoming links to www.domain.de who has s.th. like "member.php?" in the URL.

Any other suggestions?

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Hell, I would be extremely pissed if this happened to me, but other than letting Google know, I don't know what is the best course of action. I would try the following, but I'm just throwing something out there:

1) Try Google Support. Tell them you are being bombed, etc.
2) 301 redirect?
Has his main linkbuilding attempts been to the http://www.domain.com or just the http://domain.com? I'm hoping to the latter, and the spammer is hitting just the http://www.domain.com.
If that's the case you could easily 301 redirect the http://www.domain.com to the http://domain.com.

I know that people have POUNDED domains with these links and did a simple redirect and it did not affect them too bad.

3) Wait it out.
4) Get XRUMER and HAMMER THE FUCK outta his competitors.
5) Transfer site to a new domain & 301.


Best of luck mate.

 

Dumper

Elite Member

Mar 20, 2009

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #3

Let us know what G tells you. This sucks for your client.

 

subster

Elite Member

Apr 5, 2008

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #4

hi albaniax, have a look in the junior vip download section. i posted my plugin to filter links by redirecting them if a certain string is in the url.

 

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ehabh

Registered Member

Aug 16, 2010

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #5

I would not worry too much in less than a month your rankings should return unless I am missing something.

 

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ehabh

Registered Member

Aug 16, 2010

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #6

Unless I am missing something somebody is doing linkbuilding for your for free will strangthen your site in the long term

 

ziplack

Supreme Member

Feb 18, 2010

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• Feb 23, 2012

• #7

filter all the profile backlinks using hrefer footprints , pm if u need them

 

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Jeanne

Registered Member

Sep 7, 2011

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• Feb 25, 2012

• #8

Is there any way to delete these backlinks and profiles if it happens to your site?

 

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Envyliciouz

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Feb 5, 2012

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• Mar 18, 2012

• #9

Any updates? How did you solved the problem? This sucks really hard.

 

Baadier

Regular Member

Nov 25, 2011

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• Mar 18, 2012

• #10

Any further updates on this? Was it resolved in any way? Did you turn the gun at the competition or contact big G?

 

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Greyform

Registered Member

Sep 8, 2010

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• Mar 18, 2012

• #11

I'd start building different types of links to counter the sudden surge of profile links. There's not much you can do about the quantity of profiles your client's been spammed with, but you can definitely try to dilute the effect with diversity. Best of luck, would love to hear how it all turns out!