Could this work for Google Reconsideration Request?
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One of my websites has received the following message:
We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines.
Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes.
We encourage you to make changes to comply with our quality guidelines. Once you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google's search results.
If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.
I have used LinkResearchTools DTOX to locate unnatural links and remove them. So far I've been able to remove or nofollow 50/350 and that's as far as I can ever go. The rest of the websites either don't respond or don't have any contact information.
I added another 300 suspicious websites to my list and I'll try to get the links manually removed.
Hopefully I can get 100/650 websites (and a bit more links) removed in total - at most. That is my estimate.
I've been thinking to use Google Disavow Tool for the rest and make sure to submit a nicely written report with spreadsheets to Google - when I get to the reconsideration point.
What are your thoughts on this?
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It took us 4 reconsideration requests before our unnatural link building penalty was lifted. In order to have the manually penalty revoked, we downloaded all our backlink lists from Moz, Bing and Google webmaster tools imported them into a Google doc and remove the duplicates. We then contacted every site and made a not of the contact details along with the date in a new column on the Google doc, we would then re visit the sites the following week and email them again. After 3 attempts we would but : unable to contact webmaster for link removal added URL to disinvow list.
Once we had gone through the whole list, which did take a long time we submitted the disinvow list first, then submitted our reconsideration request explains what we had done since our last request and include the link to the Google docs as the spam team can access this and see all the hard work you have done.
Good luck with it, and i hope you recover soon
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Keep in mind that Matt Cutts has said people should usually be taking a machete to their backlinks rather than a scalpel. Don't try and remove just enough to make a difference, remove everything you think could possibly hurt you. And remove anything Google's likely to crack down on in the future. In my experience with Link Deotx, usually over 75% of backlinks marked as suspicious warrant removal.
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No, don't remove the links coming from good authoritative sites.
For rest of the links, download links to your site report in Google Webmaster Tools and check if those low quality sites are in there. Start by removing the links that are in the report. You can disavow the links as well but you should be very careful in doing so. Sometimes, people get extra cautious and disavow good backlinks.
Regards
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Should I also remove links coming from high authority domains with excessive use of commercial keywords in anchor text? What do you think about using Google Disavow for the ones I cannot remove manually?
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Exactly! You are on the right path. Google states that you should submit the proof of your manual removal work along with the reconsideration request. It will help them understand that you are serious and are working for it and will also expedite the process.
Regards
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