Rankings disappeared since Penguin 2.1 - course of action?

[stephenshone]

One of my sites that has always ranked 1st page on main keyphrases is now between pages 4 and 10 on them, I'm guessing it's been hit by Penguin 2.1.

Can anyone offer advice? Here's the link profile:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.hgoodwin.com

Any advice greatly appreciated.

UPDATE - Open Site Explorer only shows 95 links. I've checked my links in Google Webmaster Tools, and there are a lot more - 717! The vast majority I don't recognise and look dodgy. How could that happen, and what's the best course of action - is disavow the way to go? I don't even want to click some of those links.

Best Regards,

Stephen

[SEOSHARK]

Let me first, say, that , what ever you are doing for link building or PROMOTION...... STOP... DO not pass go, just stop....In looking at the report form OE, there are really no links listed worth having and are not promoting your website well at all.

run the webmaster report of links and make your best judgement on the link..... does it look spammy, is there porn, casino stuff, foreign lingo or full of other links red flag it, then report them all to G. Hopefully the domain is worth saving and you don't have to start over. I have also found that there is language you should use with communication with G that helps get their attention.

good luck

[yasirmtm]

I just checked your site through ahrefs and there has been a spike in links starting from 20th of September. You need to look at them in detail and then try to get those links removed. I hope that helps you in getting back your rankings.

[stephenshone]

Thank you very much for the responses, much appreciated.

That's what's confusing me. I haven't built any links in 1-2 years for that domain. All I do is post on the blog, Facebook, Twiiter and G+.

I've sent some removal requests to the more obvious ones with names like seodirectory etc.

Should I wait or would you just send a disavow to Google now?

Best Regards,

Stephen