Spammy link attack or?

koles

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Hello friends
First of all thanks to all members of BHW for building and cotributing on this great forum
Black Hat World for me is a massive SEO encyclopedia thanks to all of You.

Need Your help and advise.
Have little website and just starting to gaining some rankings.
Yesterday found out on Ahrefs 598 new backlinks.
All of them are pointing to images on two pages, homepage but most of them on other page
And all of them are from www.4mark(dot)net
I have never create those links or buy any.
DR of this domain is 64 but anyway is this some kind of spammy link attack or something?
Are those links going to harm my rankings?
all links are ********, it does not show anchor text in ahrefs.
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When i follow link cant find any link to my website.
Please help me dear BHW members.
Should i ignore them? is this something normal? or disavow this domain?
Never disavow any links before any advise appreciated.
Thanks all of You in advance.
Take care
 
4 mark is a bookmark/resource gathering tool.

People can submit links and other users rank the usefulness of those links. You can also search on the site if you are looking for a topic.

In addition to user generated content they probably have their own webcrawlers that gather links to resources like images for their catalogue.

If you are getting a backlink then they may be hot-linking your images.

I doubt it is a spam attack. Probably just gathering and cataloguing your resources.

If you don't want this happening, you can block their crawlers or block all crawlers except those you whitelist.

Follow the backlinks to see what they are doing with your urls. Displaying the images or just listing links with metadata or something else?

Edit: Their bots should show up in your traffic stats if they are crawling your site.
Also: Do "view page source" and search for your domain. It may not show on the page if they are hiding the links. Or if they are hot-linking they could be in an <img src= tag and not visible on the page itself.
 
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You really don't need to worry about such links, especially when do they come from such a single domain,
It won't make any positive neither negative effect to your ranking and nowadays it's completely natural to have such links for any established website,
You should ignore such behaviour, but if you're really worried, you can disavow the domain & block the crawlers as @RRunner suggested
 
Thanks a lot guys for replies and advise.im going to ignore those links for now.
 
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