Ten thousand "Viagra-ish" inbound links; clean it up or just start over?

Discussion in 'Google' started by swelp, Jun 18, 2013.

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    last month, my site fell from #4 on google (for my favorite-est keyword) all the way down to the pits of hell. I can rank for internal pages, but my home page is gone.

    I used a couple of ibl checkers and found over ten thousand links to my domain with such unrelated phrases as "generic viagra" and "women's nike shoes".

    I understand that bad links aren't supposed to de-rank (is that a word?) a site, but the timing sure seems like it did. should I continue trying to clean it up or just get a new domain and redirect?
     
    swelp, Jun 18, 2013 IP