Unnatural Links Warning from Google - what is your experience

by derekwong28

Posted: 12 years ago 16 replies

"We've detected that some of the links pointing to your site are using techniques outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. We don't want to put any trust in links that are artificial or unnatural. We recommend removing any unnatural links to your site. However, we do realize that some links are outside of your control. As a result, for this specific incident we are taking very targeted action on the unnatural links instead of your site as a whole. If you are able to remove any of the links, please submit a reconsideration request, including the actions that you took. If you have any questions, please visit our Webmaster Help Forum."

I understand a large number of people have received this warning through Webmaster tools. I have not received one myself. What I want to know is that if you have received this message, what links you might have got that could be considered as unnatural. Did you use Paid links, Blog network links, Article network links, Link exchange scheme etc.

Did you notice a drop in rankings and traffic since receiving this message and what if anything did you do about it.

I would be interested to hear your experiences. Thanks

Derek

#experience #links #unnatural #warning

Weedy92 12 years ago

Haven't recived them on any main sites, only smaller scale "test" sites that are pretty much throw-aways. There's a ton of factors that can warrant that message these days.. I haven't noticed any drop in traffic and I really dislike the message Google gives webmasters about removing links, as in most cases it's almost impossible to do once they've been made.
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derekwong28 12 years ago

I received a message from a blog link network recently telling their advertisers and publishers not to panic. So this is obviously having some impact on their business. They say that if you remove all paid links in one go, you are telling Google that you are guilty. In any case, your traffic will drop because of the removal of these links.
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Trabalhodigital

12 years ago

Interesting thread
I received an unnatural message from google also.

What if I dont try to fix my bad links?
Can my ranking situation got worse OR it may stay the same ?

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DNAWRealm

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Trabalhodigital

Interesting thread
I received an unnatural message from google also.

What if I dont try to fix my bad links?
Can my ranking situation got worse OR it may stay the same ?

Stay the same probably. Take action to remove the bad links (whether it's emailing webhosts etc) and save everything you do in a notepad. Then file for reconsideration and paste the notepad of what you've done

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Jim Hughes 12 years ago

As far as reconsideration, tell them the links aren't yours so what can you do about it? Generally speaking, if "bad" links were to damage sites, then all competitors could get rid of each others' sites.
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Theeban

12 years ago

I guess, If you remove such links and request Google, definitely, You are telling Google that you already VIOLATED their rules. That may give have negative impact of your site.

To over come bad links practice, how about go for quality link building campaign now? Will not it wash-out the impacts of bad-link building practices? - Just a thought, will it work in that way? Any suggestions?

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Trabalhodigital

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Theeban

I think - By going to quality links campaign, it will surely improve rankings.
Altough I think it will never be the same as it was, before. Whatever is Penguin or Unnatural links the "penalization" suffered.

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CourtTuttle

12 years ago

There are two different situations where I've seen sites get these messages.

1. Lots of links from automated linking schemes (links from sources like Unique Article Wizard, Linkvana, Build My Rank, etc.)

2. Too many anchored links. I've seen this even in situations where all of the links are from quality sources. If all of your links are anchored, Google seems to be assuming that they are unnatural.

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Trabalhodigital

12 years ago

Originally Posted by CourtTuttle

2. Too many anchored links. I've seen this even in situations where all of the links are from quality sources. If all of your links are anchored, Google seems to be assuming that they are unnatural.

This is the reason penguin caught my site. I also received an unnatural links message from WMT,
With that said, I guess my situation is quite hard to solve. Any idea about what I could do ?

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CourtTuttle

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Trabalhodigital

This is the reason penguin caught my site. I also received an unnatural links message from WMT,
With that said, I guess my situation is quite hard to solve. Any idea about what I could do ?

Yeah last week I had lunch with some guys I know who work at an SEO company. They told me that they were able to improve the situation by removing some of the links and changing the anchors of others. They said that they just had to email the site owners to ask for the change.

If you can get them to take down the links it can improve the situation. Of course, you aren't going to rank like you did before Penguin because you'll have less links but at least you're in a position where you aren't getting hit because of over-optimized anchors and you can rebuild links with more variety.

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JeanneLynn 12 years ago

Nothing happened at first. Then about 3 weeks later, my sites disappeared from Google.
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- Trabalhodigital 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JeanneLynn
  
  Nothing happened at first. Then about 3 weeks later, my sites disappeared from Google.
  
  Jeannelynn..
  
  After what ? - A WMT unnatural links message?
  How do you know for sure they disappeared?
  
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DeskCoder 12 years ago

I received the unnatural link message and started a thread on how I overcame it:

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...-overcame.html
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derekwong28 12 years ago

I wonder whether there is anybody who got this message but feels that they are completely innocent?
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nekwf 12 years ago

Hmm, I never received warnings from Google before. I was penalized without warning. Only after I noticed "shady" backlinks and removed them before getting indexed again. Google is always "grey" to me.
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derekwong28 12 years ago

I also have sites that have not received any warnings whose backlinks are as "unnatural" as they get.
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