Penguin Recovery?
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My website just got hit by Panda/Penguin? Whatever the Zoo. Search impressions and clicks dropped to pretty much nothing.
The site is fairly new. Started in January.
A friend and I started it together. We had a few sites in a similar niche. All of which generated traffic. We decided to forward all of these (around 8 sites) to our new main site to give it that initial boost and allow us more time to work on the main site.
We were hit this weekend. Search just hot rock bottom. We have since removed the forwarded sites as we noticed all the links that pointed to these now showed up in webmaster tools and each page from the old sites showed as a link in webmaster tools. Over 50k links in total.
Now that these are removed, how long will it take for google to show these links as removed? Is there any way to speed up the process?
I ask this because a few of the links from random sites we checked didn't even have links to our site or any of the previous sites. So is this a long process? Anyone have any experience with it?
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