Unnatural links to your site--impacts links
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Hi,
I just recive a "nice" Massage at my WMT-
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. Learn more._Did someone here came across any massage like this before?if so, any suggestion on what to so next?Whould love for some help! Thanks
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I believe you have it misunderstood - they took action on the pages (on your website) which were benefiting from the unnatural links, rather than taking action on your entire website.
You should still try to target and clean up the unnatural links.
Best of luck!
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Thanks for the quick response Miki!
It's sound a perfect way to handle it.
Plese allow me to ask you this:
In the massage itself, Google claim they took some action against those harmful Links already: "we are taking targeted action on the unnatural links instead of on the site’s ranking as a whole."
To my best understanding I should do nothing. The Toxic Links were removed by Google Isn’t?
I must note that English is not my mother language so it is possible i am simply misunderstanding it J
Thanks
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I would take a good look at your back-link profile, and try to figure out which links you are being punished for.
Also, if you notice a drop in ranking for only one (or a few) specific pages, look at the back-links pointing to that page and figure out which links are hurting you.
Once you target the bad links, contact the webmaster and ask them to remove your links. Document your efforts. Try again (if they don't respond or remove your links) - Document your efforts.
If you could not get your links removed, use the disavow tool (like a machete). Submit a reconsideration request and include your documentation.
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