Simplifying the Task of Pruning Links

Once you have identified if bad links are pointing at your site , you need to start working to address it. If you have 10,000 or more links to your site, this can seem like an insurmountable task – particularly if the people who acquired the bad links are no longer around to ask about what they did. Here are some things you can do to simplify the cleanup process. Categorize Your Links Start by pulling the link data. At a minimum, pull it from Google Webmaster Tools, because that is what Google is reporting. If you can, it is also great to get link data from Open Site Explorer and Majestic SEO . Integrate all this data into one master list. Combining your data (and de-duping the results) gives you the largest possible list of links, as individual link data sources can only provide a sampling of the links to your site. Once you have your master list, it's time to start simpl...

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