FACT: External links harm your site in Google SERPS

[Spiral]

External links harm your site in Google SERPS

So it looks like someone is being malicious to a few of my websites, they are building lots of porn and SPAM linsk to my sites I only noticed this when I looked at my webmaster tools account and noticed the links had jumped by a large amount.

I was checking WMT because I had dropped for a few major keywords.
This is very worrying that Google now lowers SERPS rankings from external activity.

As it seems to have happened for more than one of my sites I am certain its not an isolated incident.

So it seems like there is an option for anyone to be malicious to their competition. This cant be right an it?

I am tempted to try this out on a random site and publish my findings, very worrying.

I am seeing hundreds of links being linked to my sites on a daily basis, forums and random junk pages.

Anyone else experienced this?

[bimo]

It might be your competition if you are placed higher and they feel a threat. You cant do a lot about that.

I would change you on page keywords slightly just to rule this out. how many backlinks that are "spammy" points directly to your domain

[abigailpoul]

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