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Thanks a lot you guys. We've have it revoked !!!

Thanks Marie, I can't believe that I overlooked it Taking care of tht now

Thanks for your assistance Andy.

Do you mean to say that even if links are nofollow, the page layout can still impact us?

I'm not exactly sure what you by by a wix banner, but the "Get Domain!" button is nofollow. At least, that's what I can see in my browser. Please see for yourself.

Sure, here's one of my pages:

http://www.webdesign.org/web-design-fails.22423.html

Yes, it has the rel="nofollow" attribute and you can see is as red in seo-browser.com:

http://seo-browser.com/index.php?address=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webdesign.org%2Fweb-design-fails.22423.html&button0.x=47&button0.y=0&button0=Simple

We used to sell text links on our site WebDesign.org , I told about that via Twitter in public, Google penalized us and here’s the history of the issue in more detail. I write it here to ask if you guys know how to sort out this issue coz I’m not exactly sure at this point.

Before I tackle the issue itself, here's some background.

OUTBOUND LINKS ISSUE

Jun 22, 2013

We received an Unnatural outbound links penalty (Manual spam action message in our Google Webmaster Tools account) from Google

July 1, 2013

We nofollowed all homepage links and submitted a reconsideration request

July 10, 2013

Google replied that we still violate their quality guidelines

July 15, 2013

We removed links to low quality and irrelevant  sites (such as Chinese stores, etc) and submitted another reconsideration request

July 22, 2013

Manual Spam Action revoked

INBOUND LINKS ISSUE

November 8, 2013

We got a message from Google about Unnatural links to your site - impacts links (Message in our Google Webmaster Tools account)

November 27, 2013

We Submitted a Disavow file with Deadly Risky links (found via generating a LinkDetox report) and submitted a reconsideration request

December 15, 2013

Manual Action revoked (main keyword ranking got from 41 to 4)

February  6, 014

And here's the actual issue:

OUTBOUND LINKS ISSUE (Again)

I told via Twitter in public that our site sells links. Matt Cutts noticed that and we got another Unnatural outbound links penalty (Manual action). Main keyword ranking decreased from 9 to 65. We removed all outbound links on the homepage and submitted a reconsideration request.

April 15, 2014

Google replied that we still violate their quality guidelines. We nofollowd all outbound links with JavaScript (wrong move because Google did not take it as nofollowed) and submitted another reconsideration request.

April 19, 2014

Google rejected our reconsideration request and said that we still violate their quality guidelines.

April 23, 2014

We nofollowed properly this time (with PHP) and submitted another reconsideration request.

May 4, 2014

Google replies that we still violate their quality guidelines.

So, at this point I’m kinda lost in terms of what to do next because we've nofollowed all our outbound links (both paid and natural ones).

What would you recommend?

Nope. still no luck (

Thanks guys, that makes sense. I'm doing what you suggested now. Once I find all my pages with affiliate links, is it possible to use .htaccess so that it requites those links automatically? Basically, it should go to a specific page, find the link I define, and change it to a new one. Is that even possible with .htaccess?

I have a custom CMS. I offer a few affiliate products through my site. Now I need to update all my aff. links and I'm not sure how I can find all the pages (posts) on my site that have affiliate links. What's the best way to do that?

I've found a bunch of nofollow links with the help of Link Detox. Now, should I disavow such links (after contacating site owner directly and unsuccessfuly) or i can just filter my nofollow links and handle dofollow ones only?

Here's the deal. I got a message in the Manual Action section in GWT:

Unnatural links to your site—impacts links

On one hand, Matt Says that I need to do my best to take down links on sites that Google hinted me about (I've got a sample link) and it that does not work, I can apply the Disavow tool. Matt says it on this page in his video:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604772?ctx=MAC

On the other hand, if you take a look at the text on the same page, it says that I'm not supposed to do anything at all if I got this message. Here's  the quote:

"If you don't control the links pointing to your site, no action is required on your part. From Google's perspective, the links already won't count in ranking.  "

I am not sure why I need to apply the Disavow tool if, " the links already won't count in ranking".

Here's a really cool Twitter Marketing guide:

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/twitter-marketing-guide/

Thanks a lot you guys. We've have it revoked !!!