Google penalty resulting from duplicate content and backlinks on dealer websites

plumb_pete

We have a dealer network that sells our products, as a bonus we give them an extra 25% off our products from the normal wholesale price if they put our products on their site. We recently got hit with a Google manual penalty so we enlisted the help of "LinkDelete" to help us get rid of all the backlinks. Some of our dealer websites are in the list of bad backlinks they gave us. They told us this is because of duplicate content. What we do is...

Originally asked by Yamaha32088 on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Start by making those backlinks nofollow in your snippets and tell your dealers to make them nofollow too. Your way of creating backlinks is now considered illegitimate. You will not recover the rankings your used to have through them, unfortunately.

Full answer by Jérôme Verstrynge: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/67192 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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