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    • trophycentraltrophiesandawards
      trophycentraltrophiesandawards last edited by

      We were hit by the Penguin update and I am told it make be because of "Bad Links", but no one can seem to tell me how to find them.  We never buy links, and in fact the only links I know about are those from paid affiliates through shareasale - and these affiliates are paid based on performance, not links.

      1. Does anyone know how to figure out what links are bad?

      2. Once I know, how do I get them to stop linking to my site?

      Thanks!

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      • NakulGoyal
        NakulGoyal last edited by

        If you do not have any paid links / unnatural links, then there's nothing you need to do except file a reconsideration request to Google and explain.Let me go back one step and ask you, did you actually get a unnatural links profile message from Google ? If not, then are you saying you got hit by Panda/Penguin, based on dip in rankings ?

        I also would not worry about Shareasale / Affiliate Links, they do not influence directly towards SEO.

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        • trophycentraltrophiesandawards
          trophycentraltrophiesandawards @NakulGoyal last edited by

          Thanks for your response.  To answer your question - I did file a reconsideration request and was told there was no manual penalty. So I assume it was Panda / Penuin because my home page, which ranked in the top 1-7  positions for trophies and for trophies and awards disappeared (meaning it could not be found in the top few hundred listings).  Even our brand, trophycentral, disappeared for a couple of weeks.  TrophyCentral came back after a few weeks, but nothing else on the home page came back.  Other pages are fine.  So we are getting some sort of algorithmic penalty and we have no idea why.  It has been a couple of months now.   Thanks for your thoughts.

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