Unnatural Links

12 years ago

You've got nothing to lose

I could be wrong but I think they said it has to appear if you're trying (Shot in the dark just have a feeling I remember hearing this somewhere)

I'm not sure how seriously they take that if it's just a couple hundred or more than 60% of your links need to be gone

But hey if you get the penalty lifted you get it lifted.

If it stays you're exactly where you are now so... Not much to lose

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smuggecko

12 years ago

I had the same issue with one of my sites and it turned out I was penalised for unnatural links on my site, not inbound links. So I stripped all my links and informed Google.

Problem solved.

Remember that Google has to take into consideration possible competitor negative SEO. So their first consideration for unnatural content and links, will be your site. Unless of course your are a massive company generating literally millions of spammy inbound links. That just stinks of black hatters.

Good luck

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alfid

12 years ago

Originally Posted by smuggecko

I had the same issue with one of my sites and it turned out I was penalised for unnatural links on my site, not inbound links. So I stripped all my links and informed Google.

Problem solved.

Remember that Google has to take into consideration possible competitor negative SEO. So their first consideration for unnatural content and links, will be your site. Unless of course your are a massive company generating literally millions of spammy inbound links. That just stinks of black hatters.

Good luck

I agree with this. I don't even know how sites are allowed to get away with negative SEO. I still don't understand how one company could do that to another. As I said about this issue before, Karma is a b#tch. Pardon my censored expletive. LOL

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katied772

12 years ago

Originally Posted by smuggecko

I had the same issue with one of my sites and it turned out I was penalised for unnatural links on my site, not inbound links. So I stripped all my links and informed Google.

Problem solved.

Remember that Google has to take into consideration possible competitor negative SEO. So their first consideration for unnatural content and links, will be your site. Unless of course your are a massive company generating literally millions of spammy inbound links. That just stinks of black hatters.

Good luck

What would be considered an unnatural link onsite?

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risingrank

12 years ago

a diversified link profile can beat that

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rajnish

12 years ago

Unnatural links are those links which are coming from the irrelevant sites.Unnatural links may harmful for a website.You see in Google penguin only those sites are come in effects which having the unnatural links or links created with the help of black hart techniques.

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Trabalhodigital 12 years ago

I wish I have received an unnatural links warn from WMT, before getting hit by Penguin (6 months before Penguin - perhaps november 2011).
I then should be able to save and fix my site from Penguin.
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marianajones

12 years ago

You can collect the email ids of the particular websites from where you are unable to remove the unnatural links and write an mail to the administrator requesting to remove the unwanted links.

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Danny Cutts

12 years ago

If you cant remove the links then just try and dilute them out with good quality links... however GWT will be releasing a tool soon that means you can discredit the links....

That should help fight against Negative SEO :-)

Danny

PS also mixing up your anchor text will do you wonders :-)

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DizenSounds

12 years ago

For sure man!

You need to prove to Google that you have done what you can to clean up your backlinks. Then, show them what actions you've taken. And be sure to include the correspondence with your SEO company detailing how they won't remove them (or likely can't).

Google wants to know that you have taken serious action to clean up your links. Sometimes it takes a few requests to have them to lift any penalties. I had trouble cleaning up my links at first and then employed LinkDelete to do it for me, after my work + their report I got my penalty lifted.

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johntucker300

12 years ago

I think you should build quality links with varied anchor text to make your link pattern look natural. I think building quality links will be better option than wasting time on removing links. Google also understand about negative SEO and I really think that Google is smart enough to give you credit for good links and ignore about bad links because anybody can build crap links for you.

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DizenSounds

12 years ago

Originally Posted by johntucker300

I think you should build quality links with varied anchor text to make your link pattern look natural. I think building quality links will be better option than wasting time on removing links. Google also understand about negative SEO and I really think that Google is smart enough to give you credit for good links and ignore about bad links because anybody can build crap links for you.

You couldn't give worse advice. Really.

If a site receives an unnatural link warning, they MUST clean up their backlinks if they want to get out of the penalty. This isn't some "algo" update that you can fix, you need to clean up your links regardless of who built them.

Adding more artificially created links, regardless of quality, is asking to get further ***** slapped by Google and kiss your chances of ranking good-bye.

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johntucker300

12 years ago

Originally Posted by DizenSounds

You couldn't give worse advice. Really.

If a site receives an unnatural link warning, they MUST clean up their backlinks if they want to get out of the penalty. This isn't some "algo" update that you can fix, you need to clean up your links regardless of who built them.

Adding more artificially created links, regardless of quality, is asking to get further ***** slapped by Google and kiss your chances of ranking good-bye.

What if someone else have built the links for you? Google know about negative SEO.

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C Rebecca

12 years ago

You can do one thing, make the links nofollow which are going from your website.
And, the link which are coming from other websites have very less impact on your rankings.

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Linerider

12 years ago

however GWT will be releasing a tool soon that means you can discredit the links....

You can already do that on the Bing webmaster panel. If Google does this it would be a step in the right direction, but a couple of things come to mind:
1) GWT does not show all the backlinks that it has indexed.
2) If someone spams your site with 200,000 links from Xrumer every month, then removing them from GWT would be a never ending and potentially impossible task.

I'd much rather Google just ignore the spam links rather than penalising people for it.

Anyway, back to the original post:
It's worth advising Google of the situation, and in the mean time, just work on building more high quality back links with diverse anchor text.

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edpudol1973

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Linerider

2) If someone spams your site with 200,000 links from Xrumer every month, then removing them from GWT would be a never ending and potentially impossible task.

I'd much rather Google just ignore the spam links rather than penalising people for it.

I totally agree with you with this. If I remember correctly google mentioned before that no off page tactic will hurt a site.

But this seems change after the penguin update. If this is the case then we will see in the future that most SEO practitioner will shift to become bad SEO people.