Link quality advice

Hi all.

For the company i work for we have been reviewing sites that are linking to us.
It appears that we have a few google blacklisted sites that are linking to us, along with some very poor quality spammy websites.

im guessing this will have a negative impact on our search engine rankings?

If this is the case, we will need to go about getting some of these blacklisted sites to remove links to us, however i imagine many will just ignore our communications. Has anyone any advice for this?

Many thanks

In nearly 10 years of doing this I have never seen a site tank because of spam links as long as they are not reciprocated.

The better quality a site, the more spam back links it generates.

I would surmise a posible issue might arise if all you have is hundreds of spam links and no quality ones, but what is a quality link? I see sites rank on sh*t.

Just don't ever link back to them, and go and get one or two quality links.

would not make sense if your PR gets hurt by a couple of backlinks from bad neighbourhoods. I think it is the general link pattern that matters. If the majority of backlinks to your site are spammy or from bad neighbourhoods, then you have a problem

thank you for the advice. big help

i believe we better crack on building quality links

You don't have to worry about these links if they are few. If there is a very large number then you are in trouble - because you will have to do alot of link building to counteract.

One quick thing you can do as antidote - is build a limited number of link exchanges - with higher quality sites. These will be reciprocols - but will start to drive awareness. Reciprocols are not as strong as a 1-way link by their nature - but they are still positives for Google and other Search Engines - PROVIDED THEY ARE NOT EXCESSIVE - and not all you do. What matters is the quality and traffic of the sites you link to.

There are automated ways to do this - PM me if you want details.

After that - concentrate on some of the more mundane forms of link building for a while - articles, blogs, commenting where you know the blog is "will follow" -- this is rarely ever holy grail -- because you are not going to be the most important links - but it is still worth doing - just set asside a few hours a week on a regular basis for it. Tedious = but worth your time.

Good luck!!