: Unnaturally high number of links from domain Please consider the following image, from Google Webmaster Tools I have these unnaturally high link counts coming in from lowish Page Rank Domains

@Alves908

The external links if any would help your site rather than harm it in any way.

Consider a competitor who is placing your links on its site, its ultimately giving you the traffic back and these back links also help you bring your seo up.

These are the direct links from some sites to your sites, i would rather consider them as gifts and accept them.

If these would have been a spider attack, some competitor trying to crawl my site up heavily, i would have dome something to stop that. But if any site is promoting my content by adding my site's html links, i would be grateful to accept that :-)

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@Jessie594

Without knowing the domains linking to your website and indeed your own domain, it is impossible to be 100% certain of what nature and reason those domains have a number of links pointing to a page on your website but there is not necessarily any cause for alarm or concern.

Firstly metric-wise, don't worry that a domain has a low Moz domain authority that is linking to you, DA is based on authority passed through linkage so if a website is relatively new or for whatever reason, does not have that many external links pointing to it, it does not mean that it is spammy or should not be trusted or can cause harm.

There are many possible instances that could lead to a sitewide link pointing to one of your pages, or multiple links from a domain pointing to one of your pages. When you have multiple links coming from the same domain to the same page on your own website, the sitewide/multiple nature diminishes the links anyhow to something roughly equivalent to just one link from that domain to your page being counted/paid attention to.

Something to note, there is nothing (or at least, very little) you can detect as "unnatural" in Google Search Console as it is quite a basic tool that only touches the surface of website behaviour.

If you want to check for any malicious activity in relation to your website and external linkage, ensure that you don't have an abnormally high count of unnatural and spammy looking exact match keyword anchors pointing building to your website. This will be the quickest way a competitor can win with negative SEO against you.

Hope that helps - of course, we could provide more information knowing the domains in question censored in your screenshot.

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@Vandalay111

Please take a look at this image:


Most of these are links from my clients, but also from some web-catalogues that automatically adds links to your site.
I do not think that is a bad situation and you should be worried.

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@Shelley277

Have you received any message from Google in your Search Console (Webmaster Tools) notifying of a Manual Review penalty?
Have you checked these domains and confirmed if your link is an open link (not nofollowed) or a nofollowed link?


If the links are not nofollow'ed then there is a fair chance of them being the culprit and it's better to get rid of them or disavow them.

However, if the links are nofollow'ed, then the reason would be something else.

What kind of link building practices have you adopted so far?

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@Sims2060225

No the links are not natural. Now days many spam websites try to link other website to get attention from the users. It is the new technique spammers are using to drive traffic. You can use Google disavow tool to ban these sites. After submitting the sites in disavow tool, Google will not consider these links as backlinks. This will avoid any penalty from Google.

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