Someone posts spam blog comments for my website - SERP getting worse

I have recently opened a website on a niche with relatively low competitors. I added 100% unique and wonderful content to the website and have been keeping it fresh for some time. I also worked on the backlinks - I took it steadily and manually got ~15 backlinks a day from PR4+ websites.

I repeated the process for a few days, then stopped, then did it again, all this to avoid Google from penalizing my website. The results were good - I got in the first SERP within a few weeks.

Nevertheless, Yahoo site explorer shows that there are 408 (and growing) inlinks to my website, and when I check them, I can see that all of them are spam blog comments. Some comments were linking to my website, from a blog which clearly was an autoblog.

I am suspecting that a competitor of mine is doing this, since I can notice that website of other competitors are dealing with the same issue. Now I can't even create some quality backlinks with the fear that I might get penalized from Google.

Is there any way I can stop this nasty play?

 

Are the spammers linking to anything specific? Like a specific page etc? If they are try work out what link could be theirs and remove it. Normally spammers will link to a page that has there link on it and will build links linking to that comment to drive traffic to it. 

 

No, they try to link to my homepage. I did not do any link exchange, therefore I have very very few outgoing links.

 

I had the same problem as well.
My site was posted by someone else on various sites.
By that I do not know anything.

 

Did you notice any change in SERP, i.e. did it affect your website ranking overall?

 

dont worry, you'll get your ranking back. Its not a permnant thing.

 

If you are using wordpress you can install a plugin called nospamnx that will block most of those spam comments.

 

I don't use Wordpress, my website/blog uses Blogger.

 

Work more on backlinks. Dont worry about the spam. If you come up with good links the spam ones will only enforce your site authority. Good luck.

 

Incoming links have very less impact on SERP rankings of a website, otherwise your competitors would have been doing this to your website like mad.
If your website is losing its ranking drastically, there must be some other reason for this.
Its better to fish out the issue fro your Analytics account. 

 

Black hat SEO is an unfortunate reality of internet marketing. Continue to establish backlinks using proven methods without worrying about these spam links. Google crawlers can differentiate the quality links from the spam links and will rank your website accordingly.

 

Install Askimet plugin to eliminate spam posts. You can always delete the posts as well.

 

Will that work with the Blogger platform?

 

I'm guessing he didn't actually read your post.  Akismet tackles spam on your blog.  It wont stop people from posting your link in spammy posts on other people's blogs.  Unfortunatly I don't think there is a great deal you can do, short of contacting the owners where the spam comments are being created and ask them to delete them. This would take a lot of time and probably wouldn't prove too fruitful

 

Only Solution is to write to google webmaster team , and tell them the full story in details, they will do the need full.
I had the same problem 1 year back.