Automotive Backlinks

Automotive Backlinks

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deanseville

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1 posts

112 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Hi,
I'm new to all this forum stuff. I hope this doesn't break the rules of this forum. I read the rules before posting this so I'm not going to mention my website or my business name on here. I'm not touting for work. I'm simply after advice. Just to get started i work in the motor trade so I'm not used to all this typing also please excuse my grammar. this is going to take me a while googleing how to spell things haha.

so I worked in body shops from being 14 after school and at weekends and ended up staying in this trade like a numpty. Any ways cut a long story short I set up a smart repair company. (not a 6 week training course franchise) No offense to any one out there that may of done this but, some people are quick to brandish every one with the same brush when a certain companies mess a job up. It does happen to every painter whether they admit it or not its just part of the nature of the job that some times it cant be helped e.g. reactions or silicone's to name a few.

I just figured that there will be a lot of you guys on here that will have your own websites and could maybe advise on where you could get some quality backlinks from. I don't think its only me but it just seems really hard to find other motoring industry websites that are willing to give backlinks out and its really starting to frustrate me now (and the misses as I haven't moved away form the computer since October the 17th). I was either no 1 or 2 on googles organic listings up until there recent update to which I discovered I had dutch porn sites and what ever else linking to me. When I did some research, which clearly one of my nice competitors has clearly and kindly signed me up for some how because there are blogs on these sites and a little smart repair company in the UK that clearly has nothing to do with a foreign porn site or dog breeding sites (I google translated these sites that's how i know what they are, not that i need to by the pictures :@ ). so guys any advise would be greatly appreciated and like i said i hope posting this doesn't break any rules.

Dick Dastardly

8,312 posts

262 months

Friday 28th November 2014
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Sounds like a pretty standard Negative SEO attack. Unfortunately, as your case shows, these things do work.

The process now:

1. Use tools like Opensiteexplorer, Webmastertools and Majestic to get a picture of all the links pointing at your site.
2. Try to contact the bad websites and request the links are removed. Some will, some won't.
3. Keep a record of your comms with them all and then submit a disavow file to Google (via webmastertools), detailing the issue, your attempts to sort it out and asking them to ignore the remaining links.

Hopefully this works (it does most of the time) and you return to previous positions.

Frimley111R

15,537 posts

233 months

Friday 28th November 2014
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Why are you spending so much time on back links? In your position I'd recommend making sure you have a site that converts people from visit to contact firstly and then use PPC. SEO is of limited/little use for a smart repair business. SEO is useful for some sites but not for the majority.