HELP! How the hell to remove a directory link? (Please read)

[SalieriJazz]

Well, I basically have a french site, been building links since one month, nice and slow, and I've heard that submitting the site in french directories will help rank my site better in google.FR, so I got a few PR 4+ directories and submitted my site to them. Problem is that on 5 november, I submitted my site to http://www.avesnois.info (which is PR 4). That day I had 38 reffering pages, after 2 days (today), 5,400 referring pages, DAMN!!! I'm very afraid this site will soon get f***ed up if I don't do something about this.

Look here:

I've searched like crazy how the hell can I remove my site from that directory but I don't know how. Can you help me out guys? Is there any method or something ... ? I know there were some services who were removing backlinks but I'm not sure, maybe you guys can help me out.

Thanks!

 

[SPQR]

Removing links one by one will require you contacting the site that the link is on. I would suggest that you boot up good ol' disavow tool.

 

[SalieriJazz]

Removing links one by one will require you contacting the site that the link is on. I would suggest that you boot up good ol' disavow tool.

I didn't submit my site to Google Webmasters Tool because everybody said that it's not good if I do black hat SEO. I guess I can't do that as for now.

 

[Techxan]

Notify the owner of the website, that kind of liking isnt doing him any good either, may be a CMS screwup.

Look at other people listed there and see what happened to their site. Do they have all these links? If so do their rankings suffer?

 

[SalieriJazz]

How do I contact the owner? I don't see any Contact page on that site. Tried to look on whois for his domain but it looks so weird, somebody can help me out please?

Thanks a lot!

 

[SalieriJazz]

Some help please? I think my site just got hit ... or not sure? But since 12 hours it's out of top 120.

 

[SEO Power]

Some help please? I think my site just got hit ... or not sure? But since 12 hours it's out of top 120.

Your site did not get hit. It's just a Google dance which usually happens when Google discovers lots of backlinks to your site within a short period of time. Surely, there must be a way to contact the owner of the directory as that's the only way to get 'em links removed. You'll have to disavow them if you can't remove them.

 

[Ambassy]

If all the backlinks are from the same domain I wouldn't worry about it one bit.
Of course if you see a sudden drop and don't see it as a google dance then I would use the disavow tool to remove the domain links.
Simply input:
domain: thedomain.com
In your disavow file.

 

[SalieriJazz]

Just found the contact form on their website finally. I left them an e-mail, will see what happens. I'll keep this thread updated.

Thanks a lot guys! Cheers!

 

[SalieriJazz]

OK guys ... they didn't respond to my mail, seems like the only option left is to insert the website in Google Webmasters and then disavow that entire domain?

I still hear people are saying stay away from google tools and things like that ... and the site is still dancing like hell.

 

[dadangle]

Does the disavow tool completely wipe all backlinks or are you able to choose which?

 

[SalieriJazz]

Does the disavow tool completely wipe all backlinks or are you able to choose which?

You are basically telling google which backlinks to disavow.

 

[dadangle]

Thanks mate. I think I may be disavowing a few links soon. I don't know what made me think it would wipe you clean.