New domain or wait - Anchor Text Penalty
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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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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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End of Sept 2012....
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Have you been submitting reconsideration requests in Google and have you disavowed links?
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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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No reconsideration has gone in... We have disavowed a few links, but manually removed most
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Very difficult to contact/remove these links - I starting to think it would be easier to start again...