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    • jj3434
      jj3434 last edited by

      Hi

      We are confident we have an anchor text penalty and have removed nearly all offending links about 3 months ago, and since have only engaged on 100% natural linking with good content and simply asking people to share our site.

      However we have made no progress all in terms on position for our main keyword - we now thinking of starting a fresh on a new domain as Google doesn't seem to be able to forgive us...

      Any ideas please?

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      • AdamThompson
        AdamThompson last edited by

        Hi Jason,

        Without seeing your site URL, it's difficult to give suggestions.

        What day did you see a traffic drop from Google organic?

        ~Adam

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        • jj3434
          jj3434 @AdamThompson last edited by

          End of Sept 2012....

          www.help-my-mobility.co.uk

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          • irvingw
            irvingw last edited by

            Have you been submitting reconsideration requests in Google and have you disavowed links?

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            • AdamThompson
              AdamThompson @jj3434 last edited by

              Thanks. A quick review of OSE data shows a lot of potentially bad links still left. Here are a few:

              http://directory.miriblack.com/Health/Senior_Health/

              http://blackabsolute.com/index.php?c=150

              http://www.sitelistings.net/Health/Senior_Health/

              http://directorycore.com/health/senior_health/

              The above are keyword anchor text links in low quality SEO-focused directories. Links like these could quite possibly get your site penalized.

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              • jj3434
                jj3434 @irvingw last edited by

                No reconsideration has gone in... We have disavowed a few links, but manually removed most

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                • jj3434
                  jj3434 @jj3434 last edited by

                  Very difficult to contact/remove these links - I starting to think it would be easier to start again...

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