We seem to have been hit by the penguin update can someone please help?

[wcuk]

HiOur website www.wholesaleclearance.co.uk has been hit by the penguin update, I'm not a SEO expert and when I first started my SEO got court up buying blog links, that was about 2 years ago and since them and worked really hard to get good manual links.Does anyone know of a way to dig out any bad links so I can get them removed, any software that will give me a list of any of you guys want to do take a look for me? I'm willing to pay for the work.Kind RegardsKarl.

[donford]

HI Karl, do you have a Google webmaster account? This should show you who Google sees as linking to you.

For EN-US .. sign into Google Webmasters, click the Your Site On the Web nav link, then links to your site. (It maybe called something different for EN-UK). You can export them from there. There are several free tools that will check your inlinks but since you referenced the penguin update as the problem then I'd use Google for my source.

[wcuk]

Thankyou for your reply donford, ill take a look. Do you know how I will know what is classed as a spammy link and will I be able to find out what ones are?

[donford]

Those are very good questions.

I don't know of any tools to help determine if a link is good or bad. I generally look at the site and know if I want to be there, but when you're dealing with thousands of links it would be awful nice to have a tool to help.

[donford]

Also Karl, Alexa does a fairly good job at tracking inlinks with referring URL's which is pretty helpful.

Your site is here: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wholesaleclearance.co.uk

And of course Open Site Explorer here will give you some details as well.