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Should I also remove links coming from high authority domains with excessive use of commercial keywords in anchor text? What do you think about using Google Disavow for the ones I cannot remove manually?

One of my websites has received the following message:

We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines.

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.

We encourage you to make changes to comply with our quality guidelines. Once you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google's search results.

If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.

I have used LinkResearchTools DTOX to locate unnatural links and remove them. So far I've been able to remove or nofollow 50/350 and that's as far as I can ever go. The rest of the websites either don't respond or don't have any contact information.

I added another 300 suspicious websites to my list and I'll try to get the links manually removed.

Hopefully I can get 100/650 websites (and a bit more links) removed in total - at most. That is my estimate.

I've been thinking to use Google Disavow Tool for the rest and make sure to submit a nicely written report with spreadsheets to Google - when I get to the reconsideration point.

What are your thoughts on this?

I definitely don't plan this to be my only strategy.

I have successful websites ranking well for some pretty competetive keywords. Besides social media signals, established blog mentions etc. I thought this could give the website an additional bump to rank for some other competetive keywords.

I don't see anything bad in manually creating links on different (about 50) social bookmarking services. Is this method labeled as White Hat?

I was wondering if it would be fine to create Tier 2 linking (probably blog comments) for indexing of the social bookmarking links?

Please share your thoughts on the topic.

But wouldn't "los angeles personal driver" also trigger broad search term "personal driver in los angeles" and show up on the top - in case the page has a very good SEO.

What if I use "personal driver in los angeles" in body text to keep the natural flow and use "personal driver los angeles" for the title?

I have fully optimized on-page SEO for the following keyword (not really the one I use, but it can serve as an example):

-personal driver in los angeles

Even though "in" is a stop word, I prefer to have a natural (non-robotic) structure for the title - I do this by including "in". I believe that "personal driver los angeles" is too spammy and too robotic.

Is this a good or a bad thing?

The page I'm talking about is more like an explanation about an offered service, but it doesn't have any on-page optimization. Great response. I will make sure to update the page and the entire website for that matter.

One of the pages on the website is #7 on the first page for a highly competetive keyword. Since I would like to improve rankings and the page is not optimized (e.g. keyword density is 0), is it SEO-wise to edit an article and create a good on-page optimization? Of course, the ultimate goal is to be in TOP 3 for a specific keyword.

One of the pages on the website is #7 on the first page for a highly competetive keyword. Since I would like to improve rankings and the page is not optimized (e.g. keyword density is 0), is it SEO-wise to edit an article and create a good on-page optimization? Of course, the ultimate goal is to be in TOP 3 for a specific keyword.