Citations need to be for address specific, because they should all match up.  So just area specific no, because if it was possible it would allow others to rank up for local terms in any city they would like around the world.  So I highly suggest you get an address in some way.  Maybe a friends address, a home address of your own, or something in that area you could possibly use as an address.  It has to be a location that has never been used with Google local before though.

How did you signup with Google local or place page with no address?

Have a nice day.

MB

Ok great and we are also getting that together for you on our end through majestic SEO.  We can analyze the lost links and have included that in our submission.

We are also editing your disavow link list to add the # at the top with a comment. Google asks that we do that.

Have a nice day.

MB

Yes actually,

When you submit your reconsideration request make sure you get everything above I said in her message together such as your lost links overtime.  You can use those lost links as some of your advantage and make it look like you took time to remove links to your site which they like the efforts.

No one really knows how many links need to come down, but many studies show 16% of your links.  Now I have had some sites where it's 80% and some that I didn't have to remove any at all which is very odd, but yes your reading that right 0 links removed and I got back into Google for a clients site.

Don't get discouraged though if the first time you respond they turn you down.  It's pretty normal for them to turn you down the first time and then after you resubmit a 2nd time I feel that a real person views it instead of a bot/automation process which is usually the 1st time.

Have a nice day.

MB

Just remember that it can take some time.  It can take up to 6 weeks for all data to be refreshed, however I have noticed some as early as 2 - 3 weeks.  Where 3 weeks is the average.  My fastest ever is day 2 the disavow was out, we had a 48 turn around of a refresh, but haven't seen anything like that since.

Have a great day.

MB

I guess this would depend on many instances.  What are you selling?  What is your site about?  Which will benefit you more?  If your selling a cd of yourself and your the author then I would say go with the author.  If your selling a 1 of a kind brand that no one else in the world has, then go with the brand name.

Eventually you may want to just do both, but since your starting, it's not a bad idea to go with brand, because it will be those are considered the most natural backlinks to your site that isn't your url.

Have a great night.

MB

Hello Tamra,

No I don't actually.  However since the disavow is just a devalued link in their algorithm, I am not sure what the wait is for?  When Google manually analyzes your disavow list that your suppose to tell them about in your reconsideration letter, it's going to let them know that you have a list that needs devalued.

It's going to take some time for them to answer, it's going to take a while for your site to refresh they call it due to the disavow tool.  We do about 5 - 10 sites per day right now for others and found that the normal time for a refresh of data is about 3 weeks. However it all depends on the site and the amount of backlinks it has pointing to it and that your disavowing.

When your resubmitting your reconsideration letter I would personally use the lost data from majestic seo telling you how many backlinks you lost recently.  You can actually use this data to show Google how many backlinks you were able to take off of your site.  Maybe you contacted admins, maybe you didn't, etc, etc... However I have learned that it helps a lot.

So far we are 10 out of 10 in the past 10 message from Google allowing the site to get back into Google.

Get personal with Google when your writing your reconsideration letter, don't lie of course, but tell them how much your site means to you, and it's your chance at helping you get some extra income, and your really looking forward to this site so it can change your life in some way. Maybe your using it to help others?  Maybe your giving a certain amount to donations that you earn?  All of these factors if you do them can help them determine. They like personal messages I have found.

If you just write a 100 words telling them that you did what they asked and nothing else, your chances aren't as good as getting personal with them, maybe even joking, tell them you are in SEOMOZ asking others, and your very concerned about this.

Have a great night and sorry I couldn't link you to any hard concrete evidence.  I have found that there aren't to many other companies out their submitting more per day than we are, so I never looked for any evidence on the net for a time delay in submitting one.

MB

Well SEO in my opinion is not just SEO anymore, it's marketing.  So anything that can help the process such as web design, programming, writing is important now for content issues.  SEO though is something you have to really learn on your own, by the time a college learns what it is, they can't fully teach tactics, because SEO tactics change often.

I personally have a Bach CIS degree and a Masters MISM degree.  I found that they helped me a lot. I mastered in databases, but learned web design, programming, and much more that has helped me start my own company years ago.

I would advise if your looking o get into SEO that you start trying to rank up sites yourself if you already haven't to figure out how to do it.  SEOMOZ.org is a great place to find out info from a lot of very smart people.  Your in the right place asking some good questions.  Keep it up and you will be their.

Have a great night and a happy holidays.

Did you receive a message from Google for unnatural link building or a specific message in your webmasters?  If you didn't you don't actually have to submit a reconsideration request.  However if you did receive a message from them, then you can submit it right away after your disavow.  They will manually analyze everything and can see your list if they choose to take that into account for your problems you had due to a message or penalty.

Have a great day.