De-indexed Link Directory

[ScottBaxterWW]

Howdy Guys,

I'm currently working through our 4th reconsideration request and just have a couple of questions.

Using Link Detox (www.linkresearchtools.com) new tool they have flagged up a 64 links that are Toxic and should be removed.

After analysing them further alot / most of them are link directories that have now been de-indexed by Google.

Do you think we should still ask for them to be removed or is this a pointless exercise as the links has already been removed because its been de-indexed.

Would like your views on this guys.

[AndreVanKets]

I would email each webmaster and save the corrospondance so that you can atleast prove to Google that you have tried to remove the links when you send your next Reconsideration request.

We wernt hit by any penalties, but after running the detox tool, we found a few sites that had been deinexed and got a decent response rate when asking for the link to be removed

If we ever get hit by a dodgy link penalty, we can at least provide some proof that we tried to clean up our link profile.

Greg

[ScottBaxterWW]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yea, I'm keeping all correspondence in an excel spreadsheet which I'll submit with our next reconsideration.

Thanks again.

[ChrisDyson]

Scott,

just because a link is not indexed by Google does not mean they don't know that your link exists. I would definitely remove these directory links from your link profile and if you are unsuccessful contacting the webmasters make sure you keep the emails and notes in your spreadsheet.

I have found its good to have this data in a Google Docs Sheet as it makes it easier to share with the Google Spam team once you do submit your reconsideration request

Cheers

Chris