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Thanks.  I'm hoping the next Penguin refresh shows improvement.  The consensus seems to be that to recover from a Penguin penalty is a matter of the refresh happens to see any changes.

Hello, If you can provide me with the domain name I can probably best advise you. Once you get a spam action it is nearly impossible to remove all the bad links and can in many cases be easier to start with a new domain name. If you use Majestic SEO, download all your backlinks, then use excel to divide the trust flow by citation flow of each link to find the spam factor of each link. If the link has a value of below 0.3 it is on the spammy side and if you have hundreds or thousands of these then it is probably cheaper and faster to start with a new domain name. Kind regards Rob