Weird anchors pointing to my site...

Calum Jones

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I outsource SEO. I have links pointing at my site with anchors saying my SEO provider scammed their writers out of money and now their families are dying of starvation. I Googled the anchors with quotes and the same anchors are pointed at many other sites too. What the f*ck? What should I do?

 

Calum Jones

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Guys I have anchors pointing at my homepage saying "your SEO provider scammed innocent people" (paraphrased) this is messed up. Other anchors are like "we'll remove links when he pays".

 

mindmaster

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So if understand correctly.. the people you outsourced your SEO had ordered services from a third party.
Now the third party decided to spam you, because of the middle man.
Now that's a story to tell.

Identify if that is real and try to get to the third party. See if they respond to your request to stop/remove the links.

 

Trepanated

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There was a thread here recently that sounds very similar to this - but from the other side of the story.

It was someone who had not been paid for articles and those article had been used on a website. There was a middle party in that story too.

I will see if I can find it.

 

Calum Jones

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Trepanated said:

There was a thread here recently that sounds very similar to this - but from the other side of the story.

It was someone who had not been paid for articles and those article had been used on a website. There was a middle party in that story too.

I will see if I can find it.

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That would be great, thanks. If they're a fellow BHW we can probably find a way to work out what happened and get the provider to pay.

It doesn't look like spam, more like a notice, so they're probably decent. But still concerned in case it's a Neg SEO extortion trap as I've seen similar set ups.

 

Last edited: Sep 27, 2014