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Oh good ideas, thank you so much!

Thank you for your ideas - the only thing that worries me is 301ing a penalized domain to a new site.

Is it possible that the penalty could transfer you think? I've heard both that it does and doesn't.

Okay. Thank you for the advice!

Thanks, I'm thinking about it, but this site is almost 14 years old and has a number of  good links from libraries and universities...

I'm totally willing to try and contact all the sites I exchanged links with - but is that a dumb idea?

Hey,

I have a site with a possible excessive reciprocal linking penalty. It has had a -50 penalty since October. I sent a reconsideration request in December but there has been no change.

I actually dumped all the recip links from my site back in 2009, but there were thousands of them - it really was an excessive campaign that went on for years.

Would it be worth it to try and have the recip links removed, like what people do with a paid links penalty? I can get the email addresses of most of these sites but it will be a huge undertaking.

I haven't done anything else wrong with this site, but it does have a content problem that I've been working on. It was hit by the very first round of Panda, but I was working that out up until the penalty in October.

What would you do?