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    • orion68
      orion68 last edited by

      can disavowing links cause deindexing from google ? we had about 2.5M pages indexed until dec 30th , since then it s dropped to about 600K

      We received a unnatural link warning in july, got hit in september, since then we are suffering substantially in ranks and also in business revenue.

      We've used the disavow tool, and also got tons of links removed within the past 3 , 4 months. Since october we havent got any response from google about what is going on despite sending another recon in Nov 2012. Now the site is getting deindexed.

      what should we do at this point? Any help is greatly appreciated.

      here is the url http://goo.gl/Ai17f

      Thank you

      nick

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      • David_ODonnell
        David_ODonnell last edited by

        The danger of the disvow tool is that it is possible to disavow links that weren't harming your site. If you disavowed a number of decent links it could explain losing some indexation. My other thought is perhaps the deindexation is part of a penalty that you have yet to be lifted.

        Did you file another reconsideration request? Sometimes, if you're lucky, they do give you some useful feedback.

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