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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

No, that is direct quote from search console, this is partial match manual action notice

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?

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.

Hello, asnwers to the questions bolded:

• At this rate, how long would it take Google to crawl all of your pages, (maybe it feels 10-15 is fast enough)? Over 50 days, i still cannot believe that it would be just a coincidence that crawl rate dropped so suddenly only because google suddenly thinks that my page should not be crawled that often. After all, amount of new content, quality of new links and all the other factors are much better all the time on my site, and before the drop, crawl rate increased steadily. It has to be some technical issue?
• Has the average response time increased? If so, maybe Google feels it's overloading the server & backing off. No, it has actually went down a little bit (not much though)

Crawl rate still is extremely slow, average 10-15 per day except when i sent pages to be manually crawled, then it crawls those page. Before the drop the crawl rate was never under 200 per day and it was usually over 1000. anything more I can do? It seems to have no effect my rankings or anything else as l can see, but I still would like this be fixed. It has be something to do with the fact that i changed my hosting to godaddy managed wordpress hosting. but they have no clue about what could cause this. robot.txt file change seemed to have no effect or very minimum effect

Thanks! I will try that. I see that search console shows crawl rates with few days delay, is there somewhere i could check if it works instantly?

Hi, one more thing. Are you 100% sure tht robot.txt file hs nothing to do with this? It changed at the sime time when the problems started to occur. It used to be :

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

But now it is :

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 1
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/

At the sime time "blocked resources" notifications started to occur in search console.

Blocked Resources >  Rendering without certain resources can impair the indexing of your web pages. Learn more.Status: 3/19/16152 Pages with blocked resources

This has to have something to do with it right?

Thank you for your answer, my answers bolded here below

• Do you see any crawl errors in the Google Search Console?  **Nothing new after the crawl rate dropped, just some old soft 404 errors and old not found errors. **
• If you search for your site on Google, what do you see, (does your snippet look normal)? Yes everything looks perfectly normal, just like before when the crawl rate dropped
• How many pages does Google say it has indexed? Is it possible it's indexed everything and is taking a break, (does it even do that?) I dont thin this is possible, since the cralw rate dropped lmost instantly from average 400 to zero after the site migration.

One theory is: When you moved to the non-www version of the site, Google started getting 301s redirecting it from www to non-www, and now that you've gone back to www it's getting 301s redirecting it from from non-www to www, so it's got a circular redirect. If this is the problem, how should i start to get it fixed?

Here's what I would do to try to kick-start indexing, if you haven't already:

• Make sure you have the "Preferred Domain" set to the www version of your site in_ both the www and non-www versions of your site_ in Google Search Console. Yes that is how it has been all the time
• In the Search Console for the www-version of your site, re-submit your sitemap. Done
• In the Search Console for the www-version of your site, do a Fetch as Google on your homepage, and maybe a couple of other pages, and when the Fetch is done use the option to submit those pages for indexing, (there's a monthly limit on how much of this you can do). I have done this many times since i noticed the problem, fetch as google works normally without any issues

Is there anything more i can do? If i want hire someone to fix this, is there any recommendations? I am not a tech guy so this is quite difficult task for me

Hi, my robot.txt file looks like this:

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 1
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/

This is not how it suppose to look like, right? could this cause the problem?