Important - Some Domains trying to Negatively Hijack our Domain Reputation !!!

Dear All,

I happened to check the referrer logs for our active portal yesterday:
TechArena - http://www.techarena.in
TechArena Forums - http://forums.techarena.in
We are one of the largest Technology and Computer Support Portal/Forums in India.

I found our site been linked back from around 200 gambling and poker domains (Gooogle, Yahoo and MSN gives negative remarks to websites who are linked to such sites)

We have never linked back to this domains, someone is trying to hamper our reputations, after checking the IPs for these domains, all seem to be hosted on one webserver.

How can i report this issue ?
How can i prevent the negative impact which will be created due to this ?

Regards,

 

You can't do anything about other sites linking to you.

 

so this is best way to create negative reputation for a domain. !
duh..

 

How does a site linking to you create a "negative reputation"?

 

I don't think that being linked from gambling sites would pull down your rankings in google (or other search engines). If it were so, then it would be easy for our competitors to ban us and we would have no control over it.

I guess you have nothing to worry about.

On the other hand, if YOU linked to spammy sites, then it might have a negative impact.

 

from what I have read till day, Google / Yahoo / MSN Serps rate a website which has incoming links from poker and gambling domains. (pr0 domains with 0 pages indexed, IP of this webserver appears blacklisted when checked via whois.sc)

Probably, some bad people, must have used this bad practise to damage our rankings on serps ?

 

I don't know where you read that, but it's wrong.

 

I'll say it this time, even though it has been said in this thread already but as noone seems to listen...

LINKS TO YOUR SITE CAN NEVER HARM YOU

Did everyone hear this time

 

Gooogle, Yahoo and MSN gives negative remarks to websites who are linked to such [gambling] sites

(see original post)

 

Hi GuyfromChicago,
I appreciate your help on this important issue. Thanks

Let me explain in little more detail:
Around 25 days ago, we had more then 3,00,000 pages indexed in google and the same is constantly decreasing everyday !

It has came down to 63000 yesterday and gone up to 75000 today.
What might the reason for same ?
We have not implemented any changes to the domains/code since last 2 months.
Regards,

 

Stop reading the National Enquirer and stick to DP

 

Did you mean, If I am linking to gambling or poker domains, from my domain pages, only then serps negative mark me ?

 

well, nevermind my last post...everyone posted at once.

 

It can have any number of reasons, duplicate filter, some high PR links lost, many low PR links lost, slight change of G algo, broken links on your site, the weather, sun spots...

The only thing you can be certain of is that inbound links from "bad" domains is not the cause.

The refferals you saw are probably those sites trying to get links from you. Some sites publishes refferals on their stats pages, and therefore we have whats called refferal spam. Owners of, primarily shady, domains that hit loads of sites with their refferal address in hope of getting some backlinks. The best you can do is ignore them, if you check I'm quite sure you'll not find any links to your site on theirs.

 

I see indexed page fluctuations quite a bit with Google. As long as you're providing orginal content I wouldn't worry to much about increase/decrease in page counts. Your site is comprised primarily of original content, correct?

 

Tip of the day

 

AH AH AH AH AH
This is a good suggestion

 

alrite, feel a bit satisfied now ,
thanks to DP.. rest of stuff is out of bookmark list now

But a question i ask myself, Why are those domains, linking to my domain ?

 

No real use... maybe they just wanted you to visit them... and it seems they managed to do it

 

Was this really made to acheive what you are you saying ?

Around 200+ domains referring/linking back to our domain