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    Google rejected my reconsideration request of unnatural link manual action, and list one blog article twice as example?

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    • Ben_fotor
      Ben_fotor last edited by

      Hi Moz Community,

      On April 22 my site received a manual action in Google Webmaster telling me it's caused by unnatural links. After some a deep cleaning of all the sitewide links, which I think is the major problem of my external links, I requested a reconsideration request on May 4. And Google rejected my reconsideration request of unnatural link manual action on May 29, and list one blog article twice as example, which is quite weird to me. Is it normal for Google to list one URL twice as example in the feedback? I don't quite see the reason for that. Does anybody have any idea about that?

      This is really quite frustrating to me. And to be honest, I don't see much problems about the article Google listed as well. Yeah it's all about our product and it has 3 do-follow links to our site. But it contains no words such as sponsor, advertisement, or rewards... And the blog itself is quite healthy as well. The post also get rather high engagement, with organic comments and shares. How did Google flag that out? I don't think it's possible that Google will go into all our site links one by one...

      Hope you guys can help me with that. Thanks in advance!

      Ben

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      • dhananjay.kumar1
        dhananjay.kumar1 last edited by

        Hi,

        I was facing the same issue an year ago. Twice Google has rejected my reconsideration request & provided similar 1 link that i disavowed. But don't worry once manually check each individual link, take some time while evaluating & once you find that everything is ok. Just disavow the list.

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