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MASSIVE Unnatural Link Warnings Sent Out - Is a Penalty Waiting for YOU?

by DizenSounds
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You could have been Google's latest target in the unnatural link warnings and may be receiving a penalty soon!

Google recently rolled out a ton of Unnatural Link Warnings, which can be viewed in your Webmaster Tools. No one knows the exact number but reports are supposedly in the xxx,xxx!

So who received one last night? What's your gameplan for fixing it?

Here's a link about it: New Batch Of Unnatural Link Warnings Sent Out
#link #massive #penalty #unnatural #waiting #warnings
  • Profile picture of the author SEO4hire
    I wouldn't hit the panic button yet. Someone mention in another thread that Matt Cutts posted on G+ today saying a whole new batch of messages went out and not all are for sites that will be penalized. Seems like most of Google's updates are around the 24th or 25th or the month, so something could be in the works.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Ya all goin down cause you all building links the same way you did before
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  • Profile picture of the author Daones
    I guess good news for those who dont have tons of spammy links, personally the last few days my rankings went up so good news so far for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author methodsem
      In case ya'll haven't heard, Matt Cutts (head of Google webspam) released this statement today:

      "If you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your site, don't panic. In the past, these messages were sent when we took action on a site as a whole. Yesterday, we took another step towards more transparency and began sending messages when we distrust some individual links to a site. While it's possible for this to indicate potential spammy activity by the site, it can also have innocent reasons. For example, we may take this kind of targeted action to distrust hacked links pointing to an innocent site. The innocent site will get the message as we move towards more transparency, but it's not necessarily something that you automatically need to worry about.

      If we've taken more severe action on your site, you'll likely notice a drop in search traffic, which you can see in the "Search queries" feature Webmaster Tools for example. As always, if you believe you have been affected by a manual spam action and your site no longer violates the Webmaster Guidelines, go ahead and file a reconsideration request. It'll take some time for us to process the request, but you will receive a followup message confirming when we've processed it."
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  • Profile picture of the author coolspot
    are forum sigs considered unnatural links?
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  • Profile picture of the author cooler1
    If Penguin is about backlinks like most people say, then what is the difference between Penguin detecting unnatural linking and getting an unnatural links notice?

    I know Penguin is an algorithmic change, but how does it differ other than not requiring you to submit a reconsideration request.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO4hire
    Well we all saw how many "quality" sites moved up on April 24th when Penguin first hit. It is obviously not an exact science. While it did weed out a lot of spammy sites, it also promoted quite a few as well and punished some legit ones. I guess we will probably find out in a few days what Penguin 3.0 targets...
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    Gotta love how they are backtracking now on unnatural link warnings!

    "Hey guys, we know your site saw an unnatural link warning but it really doesn't mean anything. Seriously guys. Don't worry that your rankings just plummeted. That's not the reason. These unnatural link warnings are just a joke anyways!"
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Ash
    Nice article on Google's inconsistencies:

    Insanity: Google Sends New Link Warnings, Then Says You Can Ignore Them
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  • Profile picture of the author SocialDemon
    Well unnatural link love latter is actually for your spamming activity. As long as you are doing spamming you would contentiously get these kind of love letters.
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    • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
      Originally Posted by SocialDemon View Post

      Well unnatural link love latter is actually for your spamming activity. As long as you are doing spamming you would contentiously get these kind of love letters.
      Word on the street is that this lastest unnatural link warnings wasn't from "spamming" at all, many sites got affected that really don't have any type of unnatural links.
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  • Profile picture of the author marpfi
    thanks for the info
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    To quote a part of that link:

    "Google's Matt Cutts posted on Google+ that the reason so many people are seeing these notifications is because they decided to also send them out when a penalty will NOT follow."

    So what's the big deal?
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    • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      To quote a part of that link:

      "Google's Matt Cutts posted on Google+ that the reason so many people are seeing these notifications is because they decided to also send them out when a penalty will NOT follow."

      So what's the big deal?
      Do you follow everything that Matt Cutts says? Even Google can't keep their story straight.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    I don't follow him at all, you can better just use common sense and stay them a few steps ahead. Anyway I've seen plenty of sites get penalized that never got such message and plenty of sites that got the message and never got penalized.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mantasmo
    More transparency for Google == less certainty for webmasters. Excellent. Well played Google, well played.

    Didn't get a single new message, awesome. I must be a rockstart SEO scientist.
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  • Profile picture of the author DPM70
    I built 200k forum profile links to my main money site. Am I in trouble?
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    I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. - Ayn Rand
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  • Profile picture of the author WarGasm
    Where exactly do you receive these "unnatural link" messages? Do they go to your host or something? Are they emailed?

    If I had one of these warnings where would I go to see it?
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  • Profile picture of the author arthurnyc
    We were doing 3500 natural visitors a day before panda and after Panda we were hit so hard we basically dropped the site. (the site probably deserved it then) So no links, no updates ... nothing. After Penguin we were at around 500 visitors a day, a slight tick up. Last 3 months the site has been updated a lot, much higher quality, wordpress blog but NO seo work at all but it seems I am being used on a ton of half dead .pl scrapper sites. And I got the "unnatural links" notice. Seriously? They took me from 3500 a day to 500 a day and NOW they want to hit me with an unnatural links notice?

    I think I will sit this one out and see what happens as there is nothing I can do with all these crappy sites that scrape us.

    Arthur
    star reviews dot com

    PS Thanks for the Cutts update
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  • Profile picture of the author WarGasm
    Whatever sort of update they did is a joke.

    I've got a competitor in one of my niches who after the update is currently sitting at #1 for a highly competitive term that yields 10,800,000 search results and gets nearly 10,000 local searches a month. I've never seen his site before its been in the abyss for a while now because there's no traffic data at all.

    His crappy little site is PR0, DA0, 3 backlinks (yes I said 3), nothing but a javascript redirect as the page source (no metas, no html, no nothing), no outgoing links, no images, and double hyphens in the domain name. According to google javascript redirects are prohibited, and the whole site is redirected. And he's been there for over a week now. He's beating a site thats 14 years old and has over 2000 backlinks.

    I don't get it. I will say he has absolutely no monetization methods on his site. There's no affiliate links, no opt-in boxes, nothing at all really. Just a little one page article and links to a few other articles on the site. I wonder if this has anything to do with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mantasmo
    ^^ 301 to the site? His rankings could be (very) temporary.
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  • Profile picture of the author WarGasm
    ^^^ Yeah I don't understand what he's trying to do with this site though. Like I said there's no monetization or attempt to build a list at all.

    What's interesting is you can't right click or copy any of the text on the webpage. What does this mean? If I right click on the link from the google search page I can use seoquake to view the page source and its a javascript redirect code.

    Here is the redirect code: I put xxx in place of the link. I don't know if this is a 301 or not, I'm don't know what it is really. Does it look a little sneaky?

    <script>window.googleJavaScriptRedirect=1</script><script>var f={};f.navigateTo=function(b,a,g){if(b!=a&&b.googl e){if(b.google.r){b.google.r=0;b.location.href=g;a .location.replace("about:blank"); } }else{a.location .replace(g); } };f.navigateTo(window.parent,window," http://www.truth--about--abs.net/"); </script><noscript><META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://www.xxx--xxx--xxx.net/'"></noscript>
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  • Profile picture of the author Mikeys
    I can't believe the google news about messages from WMT. First time around they send a message that we need to freak out about. They send out the EXACT same message again, but this time we aren't supposed to worry about it. Seriously Google? Is this amateur hour?
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisTalbot
    Are links from article sites classed as spammy links? Ezine Articles and Article Base both have a PR ranking of 6 and Article Snatch and Sooper Articles 5. If a website had used article submissions as a link building strategy should they be feeling a little vulnerable right now?
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