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    • Online_Marketing_Monkey
      Online_Marketing_Monkey last edited by

      Hi everyone,

      Recently Moz discovered a lot of old backlinks to my url. Some of them don't even exist anymore. I don't understand how Moz has found these links, even if they don't exist? And why did Moz find them suddenly all at once?

      Can anyone help me with this question?

      Thanks!

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      • sarahwalsh
        sarahwalsh last edited by

        What your business wants is quality links, and you want to build them over a very long period of time. For example, you want to get quality links, but from many different quality websites, like BBC News, but you want to get these over a long period.

        We actually had a website was linking to us, sending thousands of links and this can damage your search engine optimisation if they are low quality links. Instead what you are high quality links. The links must also be relevant to your business, so we sell luxury summerhouse, so we only want links from gardening websites.

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        • samantha.chapman
          samantha.chapman Staff last edited by

          Hi there,

          Sam from Moz's Help Team here!

          Could you pop a message about this over to help@moz.com with your account information/site URL, as well as some examples of some of the links in question so we can take  a look at this for you?

          Thank you!!

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          • RossKernez
            RossKernez last edited by

            Hi there,

            I think they updated their backlinks Database.

            Ross

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