Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the Disavow Tool where someone was worried about how a steady stream of links that he said were accruing to the site but redirecting to another site, saying that they don’t technically link to the site.
The thing about that scenario is that there is no link from the spam site to their client’s site.
What is likely happening is one of these three methods:
- The spam site links to an internal tracking URL first
- It uses JavaScript to rewrite the link
- It uses a link wrapper
In all three scenarios…
