Penalized by SEO Link Wheelers Backlinks
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Just over a year ago, I've bought 4 link building packages from SEO Link Wheelers.
From what I see now, most of their website network has been penalized / banned and now it's hurting my websites.
I've tried to contact them but they won't reply. I'd be willing to pay to have them remove the links but they simply won't answer. And I haven't been rude or impolite at all in my communications with them.
I've tried calling them to but to no avail.
I know where most of the bad links are, thanks to linkresearchtools.com
Now I gotta get rid of that crap.
Any suggestions?
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If your homepage is not penalized an idea that could help you out would be change the urls of the penalized pages and start over on trying to put quality content on those pages, and getting natural quality links to them. Do not run any redirects from the old pages as those will carry your penalty with you.
If your homepage is no longer appearing, you could try to clean up as many of the links as you can. It will be time consuming process but can work. I would only follow a re-consideration notice after trying to clean up all the poor quality links first.
Best of luck and stay away from using low quality spammers!
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I had just a warning but no penalty. Should I really submit a re-inclusion request?
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Ah - that gets trickier then.
The official line is to clean up everything you can, document your attempts where you can't, really show that you are trying then go back to google with a grovelling re-inclusion request.
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Yes I've had a warning in GWT on July 23rd.
Unfortunately, there are hundreds of bad backlinks created by SEO Link Wheelers.
I would need to have about 500 quality backlinks to dilute theirs.
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Have you actually had a warning through google webmaster tools?
Poor quality links might be harming your site, or they might just be no longer helping. If they previously helped and no longer do that can look a lot like a penalty. If you are registered on google webmaster tools and have not received a penalty it might not be the best use of time to spend it trying to remove links that simply no longer count.
I don't know SEO Link wheelers, but presumably they create a number of satellite sites and point those at your site and bolster those wil mass link methods. If so you might only have a few poor links. It could be easier to "dilute" them by getting some good ones.
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