Not sure if it’s just me, but Ahrefs reports are getting flooded with fake-looking referring pages lately – mostly these “seo-anomaly” subdomains that link out to 2,000+ sites each. Total junk.

I saw Charles Floate mention this on X too, so it’s not isolated. What’s strange is they don’t show up in GSC or SEMrush – just Ahrefs. But it’s messing with RD counts and making audits way harder, especially on a page level.

Anyone figured out a good way to filter these out or flag them during reporting? Or are we waiting for Ahrefs to clean it up?

https://preview.redd.it/8rif2k8ukkef1.jpg?width=1193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e7077b8a7375f39696c0112e1ba4f25a92de204

Curious how others are handling this – it’s making backlink audits a pain right now.

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