How to discredit hacked links pointing at my company's website

Posted by Dan Gayle on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Dan Gayle
Published on 2011-03-10T01:33:54Z Indexed on 2012/10/18 11:15 UTC
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The competition of one of my company's websites has started a really dirty campaign of acquiring hack links. One of their ingenious tactics has been to seed in links to OUR site withing their hack bot, making US look like we might be responsible for it or using us to cover their tail.

These are .gov and .edu sites.

Is there any way possible to discredit these links? To disavow them at all?

EDIT: Penguin has really effected this question, IMO. Does anyone know if there is a revised opinion on disavowing backlinks to your site?

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