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You got a manual link penalty i think. I have dealt with such penalties 3 times now (2 turned successful and 1 is in the go). Here is what you should do: 1. Get rid of spammy links (low quality and medium quality too) When you're manually reviewed, even the good links can become bad (algo can't detect them, but humans do) 2. Use disavow tool to ignore the remaining medium/low quality links you couldnt delete ( and the one you deleted too). Try to disavow domains either than simple urls. Struggling in taht penaly is worse than over-disavowing links, as it's easier to build ne links again. 3. Build a link asset onsite and try to grab some high quality and natural links (this should be done before reconsideration request). If your site is deserves to rank high, it should still receive High Q links even if it's not showing in G results.This sounds logic, right ? 4. Wait 4-6 weeks after submitting the diseavow file to google, and then send reconsideration request. Bear in mind, you wil be most likely denied for the first and 2nd request like to 80% of the times, but  the 3rd one can turn to be successful more often. So you have to be patient. One last piece of advice: if recovering your website doesnt pay off the amount of work, time and money you will invest, just throw it away and start over with a new domain. And if you need someone with experience to handle the problem and take a closer look (audit) on your link profile, don't hesitate to call me back. Wish you good continuation

I am referring to "live" Serps. It would be nice, to have in once place all the automatic google filtering rules, the resulted rank drop and how to fix it. So you can see a drop of 10-20 spots in your ranking and know you were hit by a filter and how to fix it. Maybe Rand will pick up this idea for a post.