Unnatural Links To Your Site — Impacts Links warning, Should I do something?
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Hi,
I got: "Unnatural Links To Your Site — Impacts Links Google has detected a pattern of unnatural artificial, deceptive, or manipulative links pointing to pages on this site. Some links may be outside of the webmaster’s control, so for this incident we are taking targeted action on the unnatural links instead of on the site’s ranking as a whole. "
I don't see any dropping at rankings, could the best solution here to be, just to leave everything as it is and be more careful with the link building in the future? Or is there a danger that Google gives further penalties if I don't act on this one do something? I am little afraid that if I start removing links, my rankings will drop, even though they have remained same if don't do anything?
Any help is appreciated.
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They'll send examples - max 3. Then you have to look around for similar.
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But if is manual penalty is true you have these unnatural links, i reading (in your other post) that the problem si that you dont know the unatural links. Probably you can ask Google using the contact that told you that, which ones are those links.
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If you don't know what to do then yes. You can harm your website.
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No, I don't know by sure and what I have read elsewhere disavowing does not even affect on rankings positively
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Ok, you know by sure are Unnatural Link, you so ask for disallow, also in the search console
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Message about this penalty will disappear only if you fix it or if problems (links) will disappear in time. This can take weeks, months or more (if you do nothing with links).
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No, that is direct quote from search console, this is partial match manual action notice
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Yes, that´s why i was asking if he use other app than google.
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It only says: Affects: "some incoming links" The problem is that I really don't know that any links are for sure "bad" so disavowing or removing them is really not an option. The question is, that if I don't see any traffic or rankings drop, can I just leave everything as it is, or is there a chance for further penalties from Google? I really wouldn't like to do anything if it is not necessary. I also found some old articles when I googled, where was advised to do nothing since this only count against some links pointing at my site, and Google has already devalued those?
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App? Google search console got this message. Probably with examples or unnatural links but sometimes people get penalty and if it's partial match then they'll get examples in first answer for RR. Or if they're lucky, they'll get examples with penalty given message.
About "apps" for unnatural links. None of them will give you 100% correct answer. I saw many times that "app" shows link as deadly risk/bad/disavow immediately but it wasn't so bad from my experience (and left it). On the other hand I saw "good/zero risk" links which were marked as unnatural links examples. To do it well, you have to have experience to not mess with your serps and traffic. Tools of course will help a lot with sorting out links, measuring seo metrics, finding footprints but won't give 100% good answer.
Let's say keyword is "ipad". For Apple it's brand keyword (safe), for you money keyword (if you have tons of links with that or if you're focusing on this keyword and want to rank on) or other keyword if you got little number of links with it. None of tools will figure what type it is. They can only calculate risk based on footprints they'll find so many of links can be good but in fact bad for your website.
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What app show you the " "Unnatural Links"?, as Kzysztof says it can be a matter of time, or not. Believe i´m kind of paranoid with linkbuilding.
If you are sure than the links are bad and you can´t eliminate from the site, you can tell google to disallow them.
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Hi
This can be a matter of time.
You should get rid of them and then send RR to Google. Even if you don't see ranking drops, this penalty can make your seo/linkbuilding not so effective as it could be.
Krzysztof
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