Regarding Google Reconsideration

[zco_seo]

Hi Webmaster,

Our website recent affected after the panda update. We got the mail from Google webmaster tools regarding the unnatural backlinks for our website. Due do this update we have edited most of the backlinks with natural way.

Our question is we had submitted more free directories, from free directories we are getting more backlinks, like from a single domain we are getting more than 50+links, those are coming from the tags pages, also those are one way links, so we can’t edit that. Is it good for the website? After that edit we had sent couple of Google reconsideration report. But we got the reply like still you have the bad neighborhood links.

Previously it was ranking well before the Google panda update.

Could you please help me?

Thanks

[MarieHaynes]

My last unnatural links client had a backlink profile that was riddled with directory links....definitely not natural.

When you get hit with an unnatural links penalty Google wants to see that you have made a huge effort to remove every single link that was made by your own hand (or by your SEO).  You definitely need to try to get rid of those directory links.

You also need to thoroughly document your attempts to remove the links - emails, emails to whois email address, contact forms, etc.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that the high PR links are probably ok.  I have seen that many webmasters fail their reconsideration request because they try to keep too many links.

[eyepaq]

Can you post the exact message you've received from Google related with the reconsideration requests sent ?

[Carlos-R]

Hi Kristi,

My advice to you would be to remove all links you deem unnatural and the one you can't remove put on a Google doc and send it with your reconsideration.

Make sure you tell Google how much you tried to have them removed and provide as many details as possible;

• Did you create the links yourself or was it someone you hired?

• The reasons why they couldn't be removed?

• The changes you will make to your link building strategy

Put as much information as you can.

Cheers & Good Luck

Carlos

[MattJanaway]

Can you provide your website URL please so I can take a look at your link profile.

Free directories (and lots of them) certainly wont help your link profile. If anything, I would spend my time on removing the already existing directory links instead of building more...

Matt