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I noticed some spam links towards a competitor's website. When I tried to create same links for a website it did not take me more than 5 minutes to create 8 of such links.

I created only these 8 spam links while continued my regular hard work SEO effort for site promotion.

But after few days when I rechecked my website back links, I was shocked to see 100s of spam backlinks to my site….

Does it really happen that you create some/few spam links and these get multiplied to create a network of spam links around the website…

I am really worried, coz this could mean my website would be penalized for spamming black hat SEO techniques…

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Quick expert summary for (and anyone who finds this thread later):

It’s surprisingly common to see a handful of manually created links show up as “hundreds” in backlink reports — scrapers, sitewide/footer templates, parameterized URL paths or link networks can produce many indexed link URLs from a single source. Don’t panic: Google’s guidance and Google engineers (John Mueller) say their systems usually ignore random spammy links and most sites don’t need to use the Disavow tool except in extreme cases. ()

A short checklist to diagnose the issue

  1. Look in Google Search Console → Manual Actions and Messages first — that tells you whether a human-applied penalty exists. ()
  2. Export the Links report from Search Console and sort by linking domain; then cross-check with one or two backlink crawlers (Ahrefs, Moz, SEMrush) to find patterns (many links from one host, identical anchors, obvious spam directories). Third-party tools and GSC cover different slices of the web, so compare sources. (ahrefs.com)

Remove / document / disavow workflow (practical)

  • Try manual removal: contact the site owner(s) and ask for link removal (document every outreach — Google wants records if you file a reconsideration). ()

Example removal request (copy/paste and adapt):

Subject: Request to remove link to example.com

Hello,
On this page: [page URL] there is a link pointing to [your URL]. Please remove the link or add rel="nofollow". I attempted to find contact info but couldn't. Thanks for your help.
Regards,
[Name] — [site], [email]

If removal fails and you have many clearly spammy links (or a manual action), create a disavow .txt and upload via Search Console. Example disavow file format:

# contacted webmaster on 2025-12-01 — no response
domain:spamdomain.example
https://lowquality.example.com/bad-page.html
domain:subdomain.riskyhost.com

Follow Google’s file-format rules and remember uploads replace previous lists. Processing can take several weeks and disavowed links will still appear in reports even after upload. Use disavow only after removal attempts or if you have a link-based manual action. ()

Final note: the community replies from , , and point in the right direction — contact webmasters, audit backlinks, then disavow as a last resort. If the situation feels complex (big sites, large link spikes, or a manual action), consider a staged audit with an experienced SEO or agency so you don’t accidentally disavow legitimate links. (ahrefs.com)

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Member Avatar for rosario1990

Remove those toxic links as soon as possbile. Otherwise you may be pennilized by Google.

Member Avatar for Eaadhaar

You may use any tools to remove this links, and Don't worry Google doen't make any plenty if those links are not been made by you. but now make some relevant work ot increase your site populartiy

Member Avatar for samauden

Google will not penalize the website.You can contact the site owners through mail and ask them to remove the links. Or else use google disavow tool to remove the spam links.

Member Avatar for Piers Rollins

You may use Google Disavow tool to remove those spammy backlinks. But, before going for the disavow tool option, try to contact website webmasters via mail and request them to remove your links from their website.

Member Avatar for danielmav

Backlinks have been increased from 8 to 100 mainly because of one pages there could be one than one path to reach to that particular page.

No worry - you can disalow all links from that domain pointing to your website by using Google Disavow tool.

And also before disavowing any links I would strongly suggest you to check the SPAM QUALITY of your backlinks , a new featured added in opensiteexplorer.org

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