Can such website be saved?

[dodkotoo]

I had the bad experience to meet a website for services on a local bases that point over 60K links to a HomePage made by an SEO team. No links were made to inside page.
Is there any exit options for it ( excluding the 301 redirect )?

Thanks,

[jsteele823]

Oi!

Can they remove the links?

[joshz]

Moreover, are you sure these are causing damage?

[dodkotoo]

These links cannot be removed. I think even the biggest travel companies don`t have so much backlinks pointing to HomePage without any differsity of KW optimizing.

[subzero27]

60k links to the homepage with zero inner page links screams of artificial links. Also getting 60k good links is no joke. It is most likely that they must have gotten low quality links which MIGHT hurt....

Theoretically if you have 60k good links then by now you would have been laughing all the way to the bank and not posting on this forum

My advice would be to ask them for a link report and see what kind of links have they made.

[Test-ok]

I had the bad experience to meet a website for services on a local bases that point over 60K links to a HomePage made by an SEO team. No links were made to inside page.
Is there any exit options for it ( excluding the 301 redirect )?

Thanks,

Makes one think just how many of these SEO teams killed off sites with their webspam techniques...sure seems like a lot..people are so easily sucked in just like the get rich quick schemes.

[dodkotoo]

This is what Google is trying to avoid. Anyway, people still continue to bunch dozens of links from spam blog comments, forums etc.
I have noticed that Google missed some of them and these website are still on the top. Probably the next Pinguin might take some action.

[raz]

I have a feeling those are not 60,000 websites but a lot of site wide links.

You say they can not be removed but I don't know why you say that.

Write a real nice email to everyone of those webmasters requesting them to remove the links. Keep track of every email and every submission form (if that's what's on the site). Also write to the email address on URL registration record.

Send a second request to those who do not respond

Some will oblige and some will not.

When contacting Google to request re-consideration be honest and up front and include a list of all the emails and contact forms of the webmasters who did not respond including the dates for first and second request, stating that you have copies of emails.

Meanwhile, start working on a proper link building campaign.

Is the site a good enough one to justify all that work? then do it and allow lots and lots of time. If not, kill the site and start over.

raz

[dodkotoo]

Thank you, Raz.
Actully I have nothing in common with this website, just a friend of mine show me as an example how people should not make an SEO these day.
Frankly, 60,000 links pointing to Home Page with only 3 diversity of KW is poor SEO knowledge for me.