Google notice of unnatural links - no penalty
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my site just received this warning on 3/18. I haven't seen any rankings drop or anything... i don't know why i got this as i really don't build links in a frowned upon way.
Anyone know if you get penalized for this, and if so, how long after you get the message does the penalty kick in, and what is the penalty....
Also, if i gave you guys my domain name do you think you'd be able to tell which links would cause this message?
thanks
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Thanks... I appreciate the help.
If anyone else has any ideas or advice on how to gain my rankings back, please share.
thanks
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Your rankings won't come back right away. You'll have to wait for a couple crawls from Google Bot.
What is the difference between finding blog posts, reading them and commenting and building "real links"
Most are
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I have removed my ads from Armageddononline.org.... My SERPS are getting worse and worse though. Have any of you seen anything else in my backlink profile that you think i should attempt to clean up?
I am working on getting that blog put on my site (had to contact my developer) so that it is .com/blog...
All of the content on my site is unique, any other ideas? What is the difference between finding blog posts, reading them and commenting and building "real links"
thanks
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No I'm not sure. The only way to be sure is to contact Google through GWT and hope they reply. Tell them you are taking these of because you didn't know any better. If there are any other paid ads that you see in GWT, investigate them and let us look at them here in this thread.
But if I was Google, that would be a BIG warning to stop doing it. So I don't know if your site will be affected, but don't repeat the process. INSTEAD go write KICK ASS content and build 'real' links to those pages. Also leverage your blog. I see that it's on a completely different domain. http://plastic-bins.com/akro-mils-bins-vs-quantum-storage-bins/ Why not have it on the same site under /blog?
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Thank you... Are you certain that is why I got this error message from google? I always thought it was ok to buy ads on sites.... Also. I've had these ads on that site for a while, why the notice from google now?
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Get your add off that. Armageddon has nothing to do with plastic bins. Also, you obviously did this for link building purposes. Perhaps one of your competitors reported you. You said you didn't get any paid links? In my book you did. You paid for an <a href=""></a>. To me that's a paid link. "IF" you paid for your ad on a relative website, then I think you would be okay. If Armageddon is not converting into buyer, get rid of it.
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Please advise if you think it has anything to do with the links i bought (NOT PAID LINKS, ADS) that i bought on this site. You'll notice there's two ads in the right hand column and webmaster tools shows over 400,000 links from this site ..... http://www.armageddononline.org/
please tell me if that could be causing the problem (i always thought you were allowed to buy ads, i didn't know that was considered a bad practice by google)
thanks,
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Ok. My domain is : http://goo.gl/JgK1e I'm starting too some rankings fall.. Help Please... Thanks
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I got this message March 2nd and last week several of my main keywords dropped off completely. I've been getting paid links removed all week and just tonight my main keyword is back but 3rd page back from #6. I've noticed that only keywords I heavily build links to were affected by this algo. update. 700k people in same boat I heard
I thought having fresh, great content & high authority back links I would rule .. not so much now.
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Post your domain, I want to take a look.
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I dont know if you get penalized, but i would say that the links would be dissmissed. You may not se a difference as they have have been dissmissed long ago as the warning to quite new.
Yes if you give a domain name, i think they should be obvious.
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