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    • PenaltyHammer
      PenaltyHammer last edited by

      Hi

      This can be a matter of time.

      You should get rid of them and then send RR to Google. Even if you don't see ranking drops, this penalty can make your seo/linkbuilding not so effective as it could be.

      Krzysztof

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      • webtematica
        webtematica last edited by

        What app show you the " "Unnatural Links"?, as  Kzysztof says it can be a matter of time, or not. Believe i´m kind of paranoid with linkbuilding.

        If you are sure than the links are bad and you can´t eliminate from the site, you can tell google to disallow them.

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        • PenaltyHammer
          PenaltyHammer @webtematica last edited by

          App? Google search console got this message. Probably with examples or unnatural links but sometimes people get penalty and if it's partial match then they'll get examples in first answer for RR. Or if they're lucky, they'll get examples with penalty given message.

          About "apps" for unnatural links. None of them will give you 100% correct answer. I saw many times that "app" shows link as deadly risk/bad/disavow immediately but it wasn't so bad from my experience (and left it). On the other hand I saw "good/zero risk" links which were marked as unnatural links examples. To do it well, you have to have experience to not mess with your serps and traffic. Tools of course will help a lot with sorting out links, measuring seo metrics, finding footprints but won't give 100% good answer.

          Let's say keyword is "ipad". For Apple it's brand keyword (safe), for you money keyword (if you have tons of links with that or if you're focusing on this keyword and want to rank on) or other keyword if you got little number of links with it. None of tools will figure what type it is. They can only calculate risk based on footprints they'll find so many of links can be good but in fact bad for your website.

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          • pok3rplay3r
            pok3rplay3r last edited by

            It only says: Affects: "some incoming links"  The problem is that I really don't know that any links are for sure "bad" so disavowing or removing them is really not an option. The question is, that if I don't see any traffic or rankings drop, can I just leave everything as it is, or is there a chance for further penalties from Google? I really wouldn't like to do anything if it is not necessary. I also found some old articles when I googled, where was advised to do nothing since this only count against some links pointing at my site, and Google has already devalued those?

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            • webtematica
              webtematica @PenaltyHammer last edited by

              Yes, that´s why i was asking if he use other app than google.

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              • pok3rplay3r
                pok3rplay3r @webtematica last edited by

                No, that is direct quote from search console, this is partial match manual action notice

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                • PenaltyHammer
                  PenaltyHammer @pok3rplay3r last edited by

                  Message about this penalty will disappear only if you fix it or if problems (links) will disappear in time. This can take weeks, months or more (if you do nothing with links).

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                  • webtematica
                    webtematica @pok3rplay3r last edited by

                    Ok, you know by sure are Unnatural Link, you so ask for disallow, also in the search console

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                    • pok3rplay3r
                      pok3rplay3r @webtematica last edited by

                      No, I don't know by sure and what I have read elsewhere disavowing does not even affect on rankings positively

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                      • PenaltyHammer
                        PenaltyHammer @pok3rplay3r last edited by

                        If you don't know what to do then yes. You can harm your website.

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                        • webtematica
                          webtematica @pok3rplay3r last edited by

                          But if is manual penalty is true you have these unnatural links, i reading (in your other post) that the problem si that you dont know the unatural links. Probably you can ask Google using the contact that told you that, which ones are those links.

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                          • PenaltyHammer
                            PenaltyHammer @webtematica last edited by

                            They'll send examples - max 3. Then you have to look around for similar.

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