What to do about unwanted backlinks?

Hi guys,

I've been working on a site's SEO for sometime who dominate the online furniture industry. They have been accumulating mass amounts of backlinks in a very short time. (over 5000 links from over 2000 domains within a few weeks).

No one on their end is actively building links, only me, and i certainly did not organise these links.

I've heard about submitting a report to Google via WMT but it requires the competitor's website, which i'm not sure of as i have no idea who's building these links.

Can anyone offer any suggestions other than a disavow file?

Thanks for any assistance

mate disavow is only the option to avoid spam for your site. why you are avoiding and looking for other solutions?

tearu said:

mate disavow is only the option to avoid spam for your site. why you are avoiding and looking for other solutions?

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Thanks for your response Tearu,

I was afraid the only option would be a disavow file. I'm happy to keep doing this, it just takes forever to go through so many new domains as they are discovered, was hoping there'd be another way i didn't know about that would be much quicker.

Thanks again Tearu.

Khadesa said:

Can anyone offer any suggestions other than a disavow file?

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You can contact the Webmasters to Remove your Links.
For playing from the safe zone: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

Hi there,

How to use Web URL removal tool?
There are pretty simple and straight forward steps to follow in the removal process.

Create a new removal request
Remove cache version of the page
Reason for removal of URL
Remove this Page or URL
Show all removal request
Re-include the deleted URL

Disavow only if you have 10% spam, carefull with this tool on small trafic websites.