The Google Webmaster Tools console can display the known links pointing to your site. In many cases, there will be countless links from “bad” sites like “scrapers” or web-spammers. Can these harm my ranking? Since I have noticed them in my webmaster tools console, my rankings have dropped. What can I do to have those links removed?

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Googler Jonathon Simon answers this question on 3/8/07.

The link: command only shows a small subset of links and sometimes none.

Webmaster Tools shows more of the links Google is aware of because you verify site ownership to see this data.

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