How do I remove Links to my website???

[GAZ09]

Hi Guys,

Please can anyone help!!

Can anyone tell me how on earth I can remove links to my website? My website has been hit by the new penguin update and the company that was doing my SEO seems to have built a lot of spammy links!!

How can I remove these links???

Please can anyone help

Thanks

Gareth

[activitybreaks5]

Hi Gareth,

We recently had the same problem.  I would suggest you go into Google Web-master and make a list of the top offending sites that have links to your website. Then you need to go through each one and contact them and ask them to remove the links.  Some of the companies came back to say that they had removed the links and others said that there would be a small charge.  Good luck

[GAZ09]

Hi Naomi,

Well the problem is that there are 1000's of links so it not really practical!

ITs a nightmare!!

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Hi Gareth,

We had over 8000 links to check,  we concentrated on the sites that had the most links.  Once we checked all of the website we found that most of them where all linked to the same directory so it only took 1 email to get rid of about 3000 links removed. The other's were harder to find, it just takes a lot of time.

[GAZ09]

Great thanks Naomi..

Will give it a shot!