Backlink Analysis Report: cosmopolitan.nl

About this Report

This report has been requested by an unspecified third party and contains an analysis of backlinks for the domain cosmopolitan.nl. Backlink-data for this domain has been analysed by our system to detect the use of 'paid backlinks'. These kind of backlinks are non-organic and have been created to raise the PageRank of one or more domains. They also go against Google's policies on manipulation of said PageRank.

Our systems constantly run detection algorithms through this data to detect anomalies that might point to the use of Private Blog Networks (a.k.a. PBNs, domains purely used for keeping artificial links up), Comment Spam (links placed in the comments of other websites), Guestbook Spam (links placed in the guestbooks of other websites), and other forms of PageRank manipulation.

Detected domains are then verified by hand. This is done on the basis of checking the website for things like contact information (instead of just a contact form), address information, phone numbers, email addresses (on other domains), chamber of commerce information, whois info, etc. When verifying by hand, non-organic backlinks and use of PBNs quickly become evident.

We are confident that any domains / ip-addresses / backlinks / resellers mentioned in this document (or any document it links to) are 100% in conflict with one or more of the below mentioned policies/guidelines and are used to Buy PageRank for cosmopolitan.nl or are otherwise Gaming Google with similar methods:

Google: Ad Network Abuse

• malicious content
• sites that offer little unique value to users and are focused primarily on traffic generation
• merchants who attempt to gain an unfair advantage in Shopping campaigns

Google Shopping: Editorial & professional requirements

• a display URL that does not accurately reflect the URL of the landing page, such as google.com taking users to gmail.com
• gimmicky use of words, numbers, letters, punctuation, or symbols such as FREE, f-r-e-e, and F₹€€!!
• sites that are under construction, parked domains, or are just not working

Google: Quality Guidelines

• Automatically generated content
• Sneaky redirects
• Link schemes
• Cloaking
• Hidden text and links
• Doorway pages
• Scraped content
• Affiliate programs
• Irrelevant keywords
• Creating pages with malicious behavior
• User-generated spam

We are also confident that Google has plenty more data to verify our claims, but we secretly hope some humans will look at these claims as well. We will provide new reports as new paid backlinks are discovered and existing paid backlinks remain indexed.

This report could also be of value to other site-/spam analyzing organizations such as Yahoo, Bing, Moz, Alexa, or anyone with an interest in keeping our WWW clean.

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Report Paid Links!

  Google encourages you to report Sold / Paid Links:

  Google: Quality Guidelines
    Policies
    Report

  Google: Ad Network Abuse
    Policies
    Report

  Google Shopping: Editorial & professional requirements
    Policies
    Report

  Yahoo Spam Reporting
    Lots of (broken) redirects. Supposedly you can report paid links here.
    Report

  Bing Spam Reporting
    Unfortunately Bing doesn't care about a clean web. No report option here.

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  Make sure to mention the URL of this document in your report to give them an insight in your claims.

cosmopolitan.nl

KNOWN PAID LINK RESELLERS (1)

These domains have been identified as resellers of Paid Links to cosmopolitan.nl. They have been verified (with various methods) to be selling paid links via artificial links schemes (most often by use of PBN sites).

Sold Backlinks from http://www.ipower.be

  Total Sold Backlink Count: 168

  iPower is a Belgian hosting provider that sells backlinks via a large network of PBN sites.
  On following pages iPower literally offers to sell you backlinks:

• https://www.keyboost.nl/nl/default/2008231/Backlinks/Kopen.aspx
• https://www.keyboost.vlaanderen/nl/default/2008233/Backlinks.aspx

  Founder of iPower.eu/iPower.be (and registrant of most iPower owned domains) Gregory Lienard boasts about his success (read: cheating/manipulation) here:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKRqYW1NAI

  Uses following sites to sell backlinks:

• http://www.ipower.be
• http://www.ipower.eu
• http://keyboost.biz
• http://keyboost.com
• http://keyboost.net
• http://keyboost.org
• http://keyboost.us
• http://keyboost.vlaanderen
• http://seopageoptimizer.biz
• http://seopageoptimizer.com
• http://seopageoptimizer.net
• http://seopageoptimizer.org
• http://seopageoptimizer.us
• http://seopageoptimizer.vlaanderen

PBN / LINKSCHEME SITES (121)

These domains have (had) paid backlinks to cosmopolitan.nl that have been indexed by Google, but have not been detected by Google as being part of a Private Blog Network. All domains mentioned below have been verified to be PBN sites, purely up and running to host links but not offering any potentially interesting information to any visitor on the site. Anyone who takes a moment to verify these sites in their browser will quickly come to the same conclusion. The least Google could do is re-index the links from these domains.

POTENTIAL PBN SITES (38)

These domains have been detected as suspicious, but during the verification it could not be concluded whether or not they are actually PBN sites. We are confident that Google has a much larger data set on these domains, and merely pointing them out as suspicious is likely sufficient for further investigation into their content and linking practices. The least Google could do is re-index the links from these domains.

COMMENT SPAM SITES (1)

These domains are not part of a Private Blog Network, but they have been used by domain owners to spam backlinks in comments sections. The owners of these domains could be negligent, or they could have set these sites up purely for the purpose of hosting paid links. We consider them paid links because they are not organic, and the domains are well known amongst parties selling paid links.

GUESTBOOK SPAM SITES (0)

These domains are not part of a Private Blog Network, but they have been used by domain owners to spam backlinks in guestbook sections. The owners of these domains could be negligent, or they could have set these sites up purely for the purpose of hosting paid links. We consider them paid links because they are not organic, and the domains are well known amongst parties selling paid links.

IP ADDRESSES (56)

These IP-Addresses have been used by suspicious sites. This does not mean all sites hosted on them are suspicious, but it can be a valid reason to investigate other sites running on them.

ALL PAID LINKS (570)

This is the total list of paid links for cosmopolitan.nl