How Google Finds Unnatural Links to Your Website

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How Google Finds Unnatural Links to Your Website
by Christoph C. Cemper, Search Engine Journal
August 8, 2012

...a link network leaves a massive network footprint that can be found by doing some forward and backwards link analysis.
Here is what we are going to do.

• Review the backlink profile of our seed site and look for 5-10 suspicious sites. These suspicious sites will be our suspect ?link sellers?.
• Run the suspected ?link sellers? (spam network sites) through Link Juice Thief, a common forward link analysis tool, and look for ?link buyers?.
• Take the list of ?link buyers? and run it through the Common Backlinks Tool.
• The Common Backlinks Tool will return a big list of ?link sellers?.

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