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Hello, Does anyone have any idea why these links show as followable when they were nofollowed 6 weeks ago? Any answer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Steve

Hello Chiaryn, I have just checked again and the nofollow links still show up as followed in site explorer.  Could you have a look at why this is happening please? Kind regards Steve Brumpton

Tom has given you good advice.  I'll put in my 2 cents' worth as well. There are 3 main reasons for a site to fail at reconsideration: 1. Not enough links were assessed by the site owner to be unnatural. 2. Not enough effort was put into removing links and documenting that to Google. 3. Improper use of the disavow tool. In most cases #1 is the main cause.  Almost every time I do a reconsideration request my client is surprised at what kind of links are considered unnatural.  From what I have seen, Google is usually pretty good at figuring out whether you have been manually trying to manipulate the SERPS or whether links are just spam bot type of links. Here are a few things to consider: Are you being COMPLETELY honest with yourself about the spammy links you are seeing?  How did Russian and porn sites end up linking to you?  Most sites don't just get those by accident.  Sometimes this can happen when sites use linkbuilding companies that use automated methods to build links.  Even still, do all you can to address those links, and then for the ones that you can't get removed, document your efforts, show Google and then disavow them. Even if these are foreign language sites, many of them will have whois emails that you can contact. Are you ABSOLUTELY sure that your good links are truly natural?  Just because they are from news sources is not a good enough reason.  Have you read all the interflora stuff recently?  They had a pile of links from advertorials (amongst other things) that now need to be cleaned up.

We had an update to Mozscape last week, so everyone's numbers got updated. You'll see small changes like that when we update, it's nothing to worry about.