Disavowel tool.
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Hello,
One of my sites has a strange link profile; it has 40000 in bound links but 30000 of them are from the site http://ourlipsaresealed.skynetblogs.be/ with the anchor text "haarstijl (2)" which is dutch for hairstyles. I haven't paid for or even asked for these links and I don't think its negative seo. I think they just set up a template with hundreds of links they thought were useful to their visitors and produce several pages a day.
So the question is do I use the new google disavowel tool? I've held off so far because A. they link to a competitor who haven't been anywhere near as affected as we have although they seem to have been affected to an extent by a drop for some reason and they have a much better link profile overall than mine. and B. in the video Matt cutts goes on over and over that this tool is for people that have done some dodgy link building in the past but I haven't.
Thanks,
Ian
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Yes thats how I tried to contact them.
I haven't recieved a message from WMT but the drop first started in April and google only recently said they sent messages for 100% of MANUAL penalties by August or so and haven't ever said EVERYBODY with unnatural links got a message.
I think it's clear that the linking structure LOOKS unnatural. question is, assuming I can't get them to remove the links, do I disavow?
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Hi Mark
It's true. It is not an email. It's a message in your WMT account.
Sorry about my horrible English.
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To be fair, Google will not send him an email to say he should use this tool.
If there was an issue, he would have received a message via WMT indicating there was quite a lot of unnatural links pointing at his site.
Ian, you can contact this site via Twitter -
https://twitter.com/Ourlipsarsealed
They last tweeted 15 hours ago so they are active.
Send message via Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/miguel.vg.399
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Hi,
sorry I forgot to mention I've tried to contact them. Whois won't work because its a subdomain.
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Hi Ian
You only need to use the Disavowel Tool if Google has send you an email saying is better for you use this tool.
I hope this can help you.
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Hi ian,
As a first step, it would be worth contacting the website directly and simply asking them to remove the links.
The tool is what you use if all other methods fail. It's obvious that such a large volume of links with identical anchor text from a site of that nature is not going to help you.
Use http://whois.net/ to find their contact details and drop them an email.
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