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    • matiw
      matiw last edited by

      Hello,

      I purchased a backlink service and I think the most of them were spam sites and sites like that.

      I am lossing Organic traffic, Im sure that my site is penalized, how long will last it?Can I do something?

      Thank you

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      • MikeRoberts
        MikeRoberts last edited by

        Have you received an Unnatural Links warning in Webmaster Tools?

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        • csfarnsworth
          csfarnsworth last edited by

          Have you got any email notifying that you are penalized by Google.Link penalty or anything like it.

          if you are sure about low quality links surely use Google Disavow tool to get rid of them.

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          • mememax
            mememax last edited by

            first of all don't panic, wait for google to notify you.

            Meanwhile you may want to see where are you losing that organic traffic. If the loss is at page level you may want to check if the pages which are losing traffic (and so rankings) are also heavy linked. If that so you may want to disavow those links and try to recover your rankings.

            If the site was hit as a whole you should have received a notification by google or will receive that shortly. In that case just go on with a full disavow and start the reconsideration request telling them in details what you did, what you're doing to recover in details, and apologize for all your bad guy actions taken 🙂

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            • egorpe
              egorpe last edited by

              Are you sure the link are spam? What about your own website? What if links have simply exposed it to Google's on-page filters?

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