Toxic Backlinks
Toxic backlinks are inbound links from low-quality, spammy, or Google-penalised sites. They can erode your SEO authority and trigger an algorithmic or manual penalty on your domain.
Définition
A toxic backlink is a hyperlink pointing to your site from a domain considered undesirable by search engines: link farms, spam sites, private blog networks (PBNs), hacked sites, or penalised domains. An accumulation of these links signals to Google that your link profile is artificial or manipulated.
Exemples
Common scenarios: a competitor builds thousands of links from auto-generated content farms to your target pages; you become the victim of an orchestrated negative SEO attack; a past agency built links through forbidden networks. These links can trigger a Penguin penalty or manual action.
How Scourio detects this threat
Scourio continuously analyses your backlink profile and assigns a toxicity score to each referring domain. Links exceeding the critical threshold trigger an alert and are listed for disavowal via Google Search Console.