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07-02-2009, 12:05 PM
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I have three blogs all of which are using Wordpress and all based on the same theme. I was running the blog through a link checker and found loads of outbound links.

Looking at my smallest invoice discounting blog which has only two posts the link checker has found hundreds of outbound links including 121 different links to various Yahoo sites whereas I can only see one link and that is the subscription link.

To make matters worse there are six hyperlinks to various pages on http://www.dcresource.com/ which is a digital camera reviewing website that I know nothing about.

Can anyone tell me where these links are hidden please and whether they have any detrimental effect on my blog.

I have listed the links to Yahoo below:-

http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http...log/?feed=rss2
https://login.yahoo.com/config/login...o.com&.intl=us
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://mail.yahoo.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/myyahoo/
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...pLYLGIwAV52PAI
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=ApI6Q1G.../search/images
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AuYiPMn...m/search/video
http://local.yahoo.com/results;_ylt=...XnG99.IRl52PAI
http://search.shopping.yahoo.com/sea...MvoJvxlaZ52PAI
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/about/...html?fr=my-myy
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsea...rchassist.html
http://myyblog.com/blog/tips
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/my/my
http://invoicediscounting-uk.co.uk/p/1.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/
http://autos.yahoo.com/
http://finance.yahoo.com/
http://games.yahoo.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
http://maps.yahoo.com/
http://mobile.yahoo.com/
http://movies.yahoo.com/
http://music.yahoo.com/
http://omg.yahoo.com/
http://personals.yahoo.com/
http://realestate.yahoo.com/
http://shine.yahoo.com/
http://shopping.yahoo.com/
http://sports.yahoo.com/
http://tv.yahoo.com/
http://travel.yahoo.com/
http://yp.yahoo.com/
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more
http://weather.yahoo.com/
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX1423_f.html
http://uk.yahoo.com/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...t-41f21e0.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...s-dba1618.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...d-dba1618.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...r-ea4616c.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...t-dba1618.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...n-dba1618.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...s-dba1618.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/world.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/oddlyenough.html
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3... BHNsawNuZXdz
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/060220...rd-prices.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/060220...ed-return.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/060220...hley-link.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/060220...and-clash.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/footba.../article/2332/
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/060220...sh-boxers.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/060220...l-jamaica.html
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/
http://uk.premiership.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/rugby/six-nations/
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cricket/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/26/20090206...o-8db94e1.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090206/...d-ea4616c.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090206...d-5f8abb3.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090206...r-5f8abb3.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090206...n-5fdf947.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090206...t-5fdf947.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/bangshowbiz...t-764dee7.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/showbiz.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tv-soap.html
http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/n/
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movie-news/
http://news.yahoo.com/i/762
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss...jolie_refugees
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...jolie_refugees
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...elcome_america
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/2009...n_top_eo/98742
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/2009...celeb_eo/98641
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/2009...celeb_eo/82525
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026488
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026489
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026490
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026492
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026585
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026577
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1026380
http://www.yahoo.com/r/tm
http://www.yahoo.com/r/uz
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090206/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090206/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTI...com/v/11891084
http://news.yahoo.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/i/964
http://news.yahoo.com/i/749
http://shine.yahoo.com/astrology/
http://notepad.yahoo.com/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/lal
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2009020502
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/bos
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/scoreboard
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/car
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/boxscore?gid=2009020518
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/san
http://yahoosports.teamfanshop.com/
http://invoicediscounting-uk.co.uk/?... cc533&pf=pf_1
http://edit.finance.yahoo.com/e3?.sr...2Fp %2F1.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^DJI
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^IXIC
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^GSPC
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^TNX
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GE
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=T
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO
http://finance.yahoo.com/exchanges
http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/my2/index.html
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08-02-2009, 09:41 AM
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Ian - have you made any changes as I couldn't find the links you mention
08-02-2009, 12:16 PM
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I can't find them either but running the site twice through a link checker program it still says that they are there somewhere.

I wondered if the program might be faulty but it picks up the same links on all three of my blogs but it reports correctly on my actual websites.
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08-02-2009, 12:19 PM
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I've just run another small blog through Link Checker Pro and the only links that it reports are the ones that I know about.

The difference is that this blog uses a different template to the other three which all use the same one.
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08-02-2009, 12:49 PM
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Looks like you need a more reliable link checker. I use SEO elite
08-02-2009, 01:32 PM
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In the right sidebar there are series of links to various feeds. I have deleted the link to the Yahoo feed and all 121 of the Yahoo links have also disappeared.

Link Checker Pro isn't a reciprocal link checker but it is supposed to check that all links in the website are valid
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09-02-2009, 08:11 AM
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Beat me to it.

This is the problem with using link checkers. They pick all the crud which throws up (as you have seem) links that appear seemingly form nowhere.

I suspect that not one of those Yahoo links ever brought you any traffic and as long as they were no-follow will have been ignored during indexing.
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09-02-2009, 11:25 AM
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Yeah, I used xenu to check and they weren't there - probably weren't there in the first place either.
09-02-2009, 11:51 AM
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Thanks all. I've downloaded Xenu and will try that instead
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09-02-2009, 04:20 PM
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Xenu is the ultimate in link search, but I would imagine that those links have attached themselves. Xenu cannot get rid of them, you are going to have to bite the bullet and do a no follow on those links.
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