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Unnatural link warning - But I removed ALL my links!

by Buyseech
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Hi there,

as like many others, we also recieved the "unnatural link warning" because we were doing article marketing on Hubpages. WE added a link/hub every3-5 days, but our mistake was that we did only hubpages and some social bookmarks (manually).

Ok we get the warning. Fine we remove the links (webmaster showed 56 Hub links) we remowed them ALL. 5 weeks later still 27 of them are showing, and we get another "unnatural link warning" as a response to our plead, as though we are still violating it, although we removed everything.

What to do?

What would happen if we said bye-bye to G. Webmaster alltogether?

Thanks for your replies.
#link #links #removed #unnatural #warning
  • Profile picture of the author linkbuildr
    Well if you've done other article marketing, blog comment spam, crap directories then think about those as well. Sounds like you're doing all sorts of low quality stuff and pretty much most of the links you build yourself, are against Google's TOS...especially if you're choosing a "money word" for your anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author Buyseech
    No spammy stuff. Every article was related and anchors were diversified. No directories, no blog commenting.
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    • Profile picture of the author mandos123
      I highly doubt you got a unnatural link warning from hubpages. You must be kidding right? What service/site do you use for tracking your backlinks?
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    • Profile picture of the author CourtTuttle
      Originally Posted by Buyseech View Post

      No spammy stuff. Every article was related and anchors were diversified. No directories, no blog commenting.
      What percentage of your links use keyword-rich anchors?
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  • Profile picture of the author Buyseech
    I only track backlinks via the GWT.

    And no I am not kidding. Hubpages is the 95% of the pie of links. I doubt that a few (PR6-8) social bookmarking sites, or any of those "whois.domain.com" sites are responsible.

    I havent seen any big serp downfalls (just a few spots, due to the loss of backlinks though). so that cant be all that bad, but I would still like to remove the "Warning".
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeWike
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      • Profile picture of the author Elle Holder
        WMT shows a very small percentage of links. Always has.

        There are other, much better services like Mike mentioned, but SeoSpyGlass is probably one of the best. They seem to update much more frequently than any of the others, including ahrefs.com

        Oh how I miss Yahoo Site Explorer!
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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Barr
    If you were ONLY using Hubpages to link to your site then I would suggest that your link profile wasn't diverse enough. I would have suggested building more links from other sites rather than trashing the ones you had.
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