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Hai Marie Haynes, thanks for the valuable suggestion, am a regular follower of mytrafficdropped.com.

Yes, these kind of keyword based anchor text links are there in our back link profile. All these links were build by a free lancer seo, We identified these & collected the report from him. We started diluting these keyword based anchor text links with Brand name, read more, visit website.. etc anchor text based links. Now it's about below 1% of total back links, (143 of 3200 unique domain links from WMT). We are trying to remove as many as possible, but the removal response was negligible and some are expecting $ to remove links.  Still these few links (below 1% of total links)will be consider as unnatural links..?.  if I used the disavow tool, how many days will it take to remove these  bad links?. Your advice is highly appreciated . It’s nice to hear you and Thanking you in advance.

Thanks once again for your time and much appreciate..  team is working on to better the user experience.

Best regards

Thank you very much Erwan, such a detailed reply.

One last question, We made & maintaining website, by obeying Google quality  guidelines: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769.

Ours is a coupon website & we are updating every thing like, content, coupons & coupon content manually. Still Google saying "We’ve reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines". As a coupons website we are doing our best to follow Google guidelines. Can you please help us, in this regard. Any suggestion from you side, where we are missing on this parameter.

Thanking you in advance for you time.

Best Regards.

Hi Erwan,

Here is the message, what we got, Please have a look. Can any one please explain the seriousness or intensity of penalty?.

We’ve reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#3. These guidelines outline illicit practices which may lead Google to take action on a site in order to keep webspam out of search results. In addition to this email, you may also receive a notification in Webmaster Tools regarding the outcome of your reconsideration request.

Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. Here is an article describing these techniques:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356.

To illustrate how these articles could apply to you, here are examples of pages that contain inorganic links to your site:

{Online Free Coupons} -- http://www.allworldlinks.com/k/277/online-free-coupons.html

To find more links to your site, you can download a list in Webmaster Tools by doing the following:
1. Click on your site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
2. Click on 'Traffic' and then 'Links to Your Site.'
3. Under 'Who links the most,' click 'More.'
4. At the top of the page, click on 'Download more sample links.'

Please correct or remove all content that is outside our quality guidelines. You might consider reaching out to the webmasters of the sites with the inorganic links on them. For advice on how to go about contacting them, read http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=9109.

Once you have updated your site, reply to this email noting the specific changes you made. Only after there has been a significant decrease in unnatural linking will we consider reviewing your reconsideration request again. If there are still links that you could not remove, we will look for an explanation of why you were unable to do so.

If you’d like more specific advice for your site, consider posting in our Webmaster Help Forum, where a community of webmasters may be able to help you. You can post to the Forum by visiting the following link: http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters.

Sincerely,

The Google Search Quality Team

Hi there,

Any one please help us, in cross checking our recovery work before submitting to reconsideration request.

1. Quality Check list for a Website
2. SEO audit check list

Why am requesting means, our previous request was came with a negative result.

Thanking you in advance

Thank you for the time & valuable advice.

Sir, If we stopped link building completely, what will be the impact on website ranking ability?. From last 2 months we already  reduced link build-up speed and trying to get some quality back links.

We received manually penalty, due to the previous SEO work done by Free lancer & we received the submission report from him. Many of previous submissions targeted to get back link from Directories and the Linking anchor text is almost similar to the Title/keywords we targeted for ranking.

Kindly guide us to overcome this penalty, without or minimal traffic/ranking drop. Our website age is about 2years.

Yes Alan, on what we are working from last 2 months is diluting the link profile, mostly trying to link with 'brand name' 'click here' or 'read more'/view more kind of anchor texts.we checked with opensite  explorer for the anchor text and found around 350 links are having keyword on the anchor text, by diluting the link profile we reduced the keyword based link profile to 1.4% of total back links. In this case can we go for reconsideration request, with out removing the back links. Thanking you in advance.

Dear all

We received a penalty notice at webmaster tools 2 months ago, in that stated  "your pages violate our quality guidelines" and "contain some inorganic links to your site".  Ours is a Coupon website and tried to follow all quality guidelines given in webmaster central. Also we tried to identify and remove spam kind of links and still we are working on that. Suddenly from yesterday website traffic restricted to 3-4 visits/hour, but website main keyword SERPs are not changed much and still ranking at good positions. my question if any website is under manual penalty, it's traffic will be restricted by Google???. Every link we build manually and not gone for any paid links or reciprocal links. But the sites given some links as sitewide, example we tried to get a back link & submitted url at once only, but it was showing in webmaster Total links 468 and linked pages 1. Can any one please explain, how it can happen?.   We are trying to remove these spam kind of links, but from directory owners response is a bit disappointing, kindly any one suggest that, will Google Disavow tool  help in this regard and how much time it will take to nullify the links?.

Kindly help us..Thanking you all in advance