Penalty removing company recommendation?
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We've got a manual penalty, not sitewide, that we've been trying to remove and keep getting our reconsideration request denied. We also do not have the manpower to manually check backlinks, contact domain owners, etc anymore. Does anyone have recommendations on a company to use?
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Any SEO agency should be able to do this for you. We do a one-off removal for clients for a set fee and they pay once - after that, we do all the work for removal. If it's denied, we do resubmission and get it taken care of. That's something you should be looking for - make sure they don't do it once-off because if they don't get everything, you'll be paying again.
(You don't want someone to be overly aggressive with the disavow, either. You will lose the good links as well.)
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1. Unnatural links. We keep finding all these obviously paid for links and asking for them to be removed, and disavowing them.
2. Unnatural links.
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1. Does the reconsideration request give a specific reason as to why it repeatedly gets denied?
2. What was the original manual action for?
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