Thread: Updowner is it hurting sites?

I have started to notice a ton of backlinks coming from xxxupdowner.com and I see alot of other members here sites also getting posted up at updowner. The pages look real spammy.

I am wondering if these backlinks are positive, nuetral or hurting?

I'm sure they are hurting.

how can we stop them from linking to us?

Getting unwanted links removed is a tricking question and I'm in no way a SEO Expert, but I do know there are ways.

What I know about SEO is very general. This particular site looks like a sats site similar to Alexa but I think it isn't after looking at some stuff on it.

Yes, lots of links from them here (1000s). One would hope Google would have the nous to realise that these sort of sites are beyond the control of the webmaster, and as such discount them.

I have lots of links from them too - no way to stop them?

Ha Ha !

MY site
http://www.usacasinoplayers.info/
"Nothing found. Your request did not match any records, please try again. "

Guess it's not hurting me!

Over 111,000 links from them… Might have to send them a present..

Its of my opinion this particular situation has really affected one of my sites to the point every url is banned from google. The same time these links appeared is the same time we lost all ranking for at least 10-15 solid keywords on first page of G.

They do not seem to hurt sites for Bing or Yahoo...

I have filed 8 reconsideration requests, and submitted several forums and have begged google to stop evaluating our link profile on these links.

I have 3 super affiliates who have told me once these links are removed - the site will reappear as it was before these links happened (they had same situation happen).

Problem is google will not reply and its been a while since i submitted another request.

These types of links can easily tip the scales and teeter tooter your site to the dark side.

Do whatever you can to get them removed - they destroy!

I don't have that many links to my sites as I'm quite new to this but have a fair few from UpDowner.com - would those links removed benefit my site?