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Hi Marie,

Thanks for the response!

Yes the links are gained naturally. No efforts are taken for link building in our case. It was a useful file which users linked previously.

I have attached screenshots of the inbox message and the manual actions tab. Please have a loom and let me know, if the link removal needs to be done for the whole site or just the URL.

In my opinion i feel just the url as the penalty is only on the url and clearly google mentions that in both the messages

"As a result, Google has applied a manual spam action to ixx.xxxxxxxxxxg.info/node/view/54. There may be other actions on your site or parts of your site."

and

"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."

Looking forward for your response

Hi Robert,

I agree and will do the clean up act, disavow and reconsideration. But now the question is do i have to clean the links pointing to the whole site or just the url? As i have received manual penalty just for the url which is a sub-domain on the site and not the whole site.

have a look at the screenshot for the warnings received in both inbox and manual actions tab!

It clearly states it is just for the sub-domain url

Let me know your views

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Hi Mozers,

I have a website which has got a partial manual penalty on a specific url. That url is of no use to the website now and is going to be taken off in 3 months time as the website is going to be completely redesigned. Till then I dont wont to live with the partial manual penalty for this url. I have few things in mind to tackle this:

1. take out the url from the website now (as the new redesign will take 3 months)

2. take out internal links pointing to this url in question

3. file for reconsideration with google stating we have taken off the url and have not generated any backlinks and the backlinks are organic. (no backlinking activity has been done on this website or the url)

Please let me know if this works or i will have to get the backlinks removed then the disavow then the reconsideration.

Looking forward for ur response

Thank you Martinjn and Simon

I will go ahead with the same then!

Hi,

I am implementing rel alternate codes on my website but had few doubts with the same.

1. Can I have the same URL  www.mysite.com as "x-default" and for "en-us" like below:

2. Will all the URL contain its own referencing code. For example, will the URL www.uk.mysite.com have

code on it or not with the other codes

Looking forward for the help guys!

Many Thanks

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hey thank you for the info. will def look at the article to gain more insights on the same.

What if its a proper street address and I dont have physical staff present there?

Hi Mozers

I have a multi regional website which serves uk, india, china, usa and more.

I want to increase my rankings for the specific country. I dont have a physical address at the UK and in am thinking of getting a PO box address and have it placed on the UK version of the site and also at google places/+.

Will having a PO box address against physical address help me in getting better ranks and will i be penalized in any way.

Looking forward for the views

Hi Oleg,

Thank you very much for the response.

One more thing, do i have to put this code on each and every page which has been replicated or just on the homepage?