What do you think about this links? Toxic or don't? disavow?
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Hi,
we are now involved in a google penalty issue (artificial links – global – all links). We were very surprised, cause we only have 300 links more less, and most of those links are from stats sites, some are malware (we are trying to fight against that), and other ones are article portals. We have created a spreadsheet with the links and we have analyzed them using Link Detox. Now we are sending emails, so that they can be removed, or disavow the links
what happen is that we have very few links, and in 99% of then we have done nothing to create that link. We have doubts about what to do with some kind of links. We are not sure them to be bad. We would appreciate your opinion.
We should talk about two types:
- Domain stats links
- Article portals
- Automatically generated content site
I would like to know if we should remove those links or disavow them
These are examples
Anygator.com. We have 57 links coming from this portal. Linkdetox says this portal is not dangerous
http://es.anygator.com/articulo/arranca-la-migracion-de-hotmail-a-outlook__343483
more examples (stats or similar)
www.mxwebsite.com/worth/crearcorreoelectronico.es/
and from that website we have 10 links in wmt, but only one works. What do you do on those cases? Do you mark that link as a removed one?
And these other examples… what do you think about them?
More stats sites:
http://alestat.com/www,crearcorreoelectronico.es.html
http://www.statscrop.com/www/crearcorreoelectronico.es
Automated generated content examples
http://mrwhatis.net/como-checo-mi-correo-electronico-yaho.html
http://www.askives.com/abrir-correo-electronico-gmail.html
At first, we began trying to delete all links, but… those links are not artificial, we have not created them, google should know those sites.
What would you do with those sites? Your advices would be very appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi Nakul
No, we have not generated those links. We had a 300 links in wmt, but only 3 or 4 were generated by us. I mean, that were the ones that were linking our 2 main sitews (company sites) with that blog. That's all. What we did is just change that links to no-follow.
All the other links were just atomatically generated.
What do you think?
thanks
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Hi Federico,
thanks so much for your time. I am not very satisfied with the link detox results. I have manually check each link and, a third part of the ones that it said they where low risk were bad ones, generated by bots in forums.
I will take into account your recommendations.
Thanks!!
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Are any of those links built by you ? Specially the Article Directories or the Automatically Generated SPAM sites ?
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Hey,
I tested LinkDetox myself for removing our manual penalty. Paid for several credits as every time I used them I received a rejection from Google after sending the reconsideration request (identifying the links, sending mails to have them removed, rediscovering them to see if they were still there, disavowing). All links removed as LinkDetox suggested, still no removal of the penalty.
Then we took another approach, we downloaded our linking domains from GWT, using text editor (dreamweaver in our case) added a "domain:" in front of ALL domains. Then we went over one by one to identify the good ones and removed them from the list, we ended up disavowing about 80% of the domains, then we sent the disavow file and a few minutes later sent a reconsideration request, a week later, penalty revoked.
Now, that we finally had our penalty revoked, we can still go over those links on the disavow file, one by one and if we find that the link was in fact worth having, or not there anymore, then we remove the domain from the list. We also check for subdomains, in our case we had like 1000 links from wordpress.com blogs, from about 5 subdomains. In the first disavow (that worked) we disavowed the entire domain wordpress.com, then we went over all the blogs to see which ones were worth having, and removed the root domain (wordpress.com) and instead added each subdomain (each blog) that we wanted disavowed.
Conclusion: nobody knows the real value of a link just by looking at some metrics like linkdetox does. You know the value, so go over the links by yourself and disavow all those that you think have no value, for example, those stats, or website worth links are useless, go ahead and disavow them all.
Hope that helps!
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