Google Reconsideration - Denied for the Third Time

[kchandler]

Wow, thank you so much for all your guys help!

I just spent all day digging through the full link profile (combined from GWT and OSE) and i have more than doubled my domains in my disavow list. I have been surprised by the amount of domains that have simply expired over the course of this project.

Also, thank you for the pointer on hosting the process files on Google docs for the reconsideration, i was wondering where i would keep that!

I'll keep you all up-to-date as well as contribute to a blog post if you guys would like too.

Thanks again - Kyle

[MarieHaynes]

Good job Kyle!  I would take things one step further though.  It is likely not enough to just disavow the domains.  If you haven't already done so, make sure that you make efforts to manually get these links removed and then communicate this to Google.

[TraianNeacsu]

when you removed those backlinks, you don't get to rank as before the penalty. those bad links were keeping you up and now you need to work your way up again, only that this time way, way more carefully than before...

[kchandler]

Hi Traian - i would have to disagree.

With the advice mentioned above from both Cyrus and Marie i was able to get the penalty lifted and whether it was normal or not my rankings and traffic have bounced back to exactly where they were if not higher than before the penalty.

[TraianNeacsu]

Kyle, interesting... I knew that is not possible. Do you have a lot of high quality backlinks left or did you start building new ones?