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What if we were to increase the amount of "good/great" links that we having coming to the site? Wouldn't that assist in creating a more "natural" link profile?

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I literally just came across this two seconds ago, check it out. http://digitalmarketingdepot.com/webcast/googles-recent-algorithm-changes

Hello Everyone,

On one of my sites PokerOnaMac we experienced a 75% drop in traffic in about a week (since September 3rd). I took a look at GA and the penalties have been applied sitewide. I also checked my Google Webmaster Tools, and there are no messages regarding "unhealthy link structures." We have had other sites penalized by Penguin & Manual Removals, but they are recovering now. What is my best bet to find what is wrong?

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Thank you everyone for your responses, they are all very helpful. Just to inform you guys, all of my problems were stemming from these paid links. The rest of my link profile is pretty healthy. The reason I cannot get the links removed altogether for now is because the ad network that I used is holding me to a contract, until the end of September, then i'm obviously canning them. Do you think I should state that in the request as well, about the links are there (but nofollowed) because I have a contract I committed to, but they will be completely removed at the end of September? Or should I just say I had them nofollowed. I am lucky in the way that all my paid links came from one network, and they cleaned up all of them in a few days (I verified on several hundred pages. Basically 15000 links were spread over 4 sites with macpokeronline.com as the anchor and 35000 links on macobserver.com with image link alt text as macpokeronline, which hit us with penguin as well as the manual paid link penalty.

Thanks again, and i'll let you guys know how this pans out

Hello,

In previous posts, I was speaking about how we were penalized by Google for unnatural links. Basically 50,000 our of our 58,000 links were coming from 4-5 sites with the same exact anchor text and img alt tags. This obviously was causing our issues. Needless to say, I wen through the complete link profile to determine that all of the links besides this were of natrural origins.

My question here is what is the accepted protocol of submitting a reinclusion request; For example, how long should it be? Should I disclose that I was in fact using paid links, and now that I removed (or at least nofollowed) them? I want to make sure that the request as good as it should so I can get our rankings up in a timely manner.

Also, how long until the request is typically aknowledged?

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Just as an update,

I turned the paid links off, they will be removed eventually (contract issues), but they are at least nofollowed right now, sot they are out of the SEO way.

Thank you for your response. My client has invested a lot of time and money into this site and understands that we have to fix the penalties before we can go acquire more links etc..

I got entered into this mess post penguin, and my all of my clients besides him were not penalized so this is kind of new territory for me. Overall, besides these paid links, his site is pretty healty link wise, and I think once these are removed he will be up and running in no time.

thanks again

Zach

Thank you for the response. I actually was abbreviating OSE, meaning open site explorer. I'm currently cleaning up the site itself in test mode, then making it live afterwards. I am also working on the links.

Hello,

I have a site, macpokeronline.com, that has seen dramatic decrease in visitors in the last few months, it has went down from 800 per day to 200 per day. It is a pretty complex situation.

The site owner purchased paid links from reputable mac sites for years (they were more of followed advertisements, but were only there for SEO Purposes), now that i'm going through the link profligate ins OSE, I can see that a majority of their links come from these sites.

There is also a branding issue, there are almost 15,000 links with the anchor text of "macpokeronline.com" These are obviously branded links, I don't know the best way to deal with them (though the majority are coming from the paid link sites)

We have just sent the request in to remove the paid links from the sites, and i'm guessing since he is paying over $1000 a month for the links, they will be removed quickly.

The site has been receiving significantly less traffic since penguin (apr 24-25)

We received a message on July 19th which was the generic unnatural link warning, saying that once we remove links make a reconsideration request. Then on July 23rd, we received another message that says they are taking a "very targeted action on the unnatural links instead of your site as a whole" which I have never seen before.

This damage was done before I was hired by this client, I just want to get his traffic back up so I can help him even further, I want to know more about the steps I should take.

1. I will definitely remove the paid ads

What else should I do,

thanks

Zach

Hello,

I literally just came across this two seconds ago, check it out. http://digitalmarketingdepot.com/webcast/googles-recent-algorithm-changes