We had a website which had 400 really good quality backlinks from authority sites

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It was heaven for SEOs but it seems none of those links really helped. Most of them had a really bad anchor text with the old company name or old tag line, spelling mistakes and a lot of incorrect data. So, we used several backlink tools and created a huge list of all our backlinks creating this Excel table: backlinks list As you can see, each link has its own title, url and all sorts of rank factors (google rank, inlinks, mozrank and so on).


We added another very helpful columns: "Indexed in jordan mobile phone numbers database google", "anchor text", and "last cached". We manually checked every backlink and filled the table. It was long but easy. Then, we divided the list into 2 parts: Indexed links and non-indexed. We sorted both lists and ranked them using all the columns mentioned. Now here comes the hard part. We went through these links and contacted their webmaster asking them to make some changes if they will.


Yes, we sent about 300 e-mails and waited for answers. We got some bounced emails, but most of them reach their destination. Before I'll tell you about the results, I think it's time to talk about all our great quality non-indexed backlinks. 40% of the backlinks were not indexed in Google at all. Most of them were part of great domains, but somehow Google skipped them. It was a complete waste of good links.