I can’t understand, please help?
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Our old <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</acronym> built a lot of bad links (web 2.0, article ect) and in April of 2012 we received the dreaded
Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to XXXXXXXX
After 4 requests and disavowing all of the links he created we have finally received
Reconsideration request for xxxx Manual spam action revoked
The only problem is that this feels more of a penalty than when the received the detected links email?
Everything across the board as dropped, I know we added more and more links to the disavow but everything has been going up with the quality we have been putting out until today when we received the manual action revoked.
Has anyone experienced this, I feel like I wish we were still under the penalty as the rankings have dived.
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It's a long term process, keep working and the results will come. Just remember how painful this was and use that to strengthen the resolve of using good SEO practices so you don't have to go through this again!
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