Got slapped by google - webmaster tools message

W130SN said:
If you are already using it on sites then just keep it.
I still use it on some sites, I just won't add any really BH sites in future.
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yeah, I'll keep that in mind and won't use it in future :) Thanks for the suggestion. ;)
 
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Use Yandex webmaster tools if you really need to track on-site errors - its pretty much the same as GWT.
 
hardcorebiker said:
Not really. You can't even imagine how much info is being sent by using GWT. I never used GWT and so my spam sites never tanked unless there was a major update like penguin. It can't be luck since I have tried this on TONS of sites. Try ignoring GWT and you will have a better piece of mind.
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I never put a site into GWT until after it's been slapped, and I've had a bunch of black hat sites slammed over the last couple of years without being in there. After it's hit, I put a site into GWT for the purposes of reconsideration. It's worked a couple of times (but then the sites got slapped again a few months later anyway lol)

Just submitted one for reconsideration early this week, today they changed the penalty from "unnatural linking" to "violates Google quality guidelines" - the penalty you can NEVER figure out. It was my nicest site, too :(
 
I don't understand everyone saying not to use webmaster tools. So these penalties wouldn't happen if I didn't sign up for webmaster tools? So I can spam the shit out of my site with links, and as long as I don't use webmaster tools there won't be a penalty?
 
I do have to chuckle at the people claiming that disavowing links when receiving an unnatural link penalty does anything. It doesn't. When you receive an unnatural link warning the only way, and best way to get the penalty removed is to start removing links.

The faster you get started with removing links the faster you'll see some type of recovery or approval of a reconsideration request.

Get started removing the unnatural links and provide that evidence to Google.
 
I've recovered all websites for few of my clients, but they were affected a while back when some blog networks were hit hard... I must say that all of them already had a local listing and after the manual spam action was revoked, in 1-2 weeks the rankings were aproximately back (not where they were previously, but still in top10).

My theory is that they're probably giving more attention on verified websites, at least I would...

Just my 2 cent about disavow not working myth :)
 
Just start over.

If the domain name is somewhat disposable (ie not a brand), you're better off just starting over rather than use the Placebo Tool and praying.
 
wizdorf said:
I do have to chuckle at the people claiming that disavowing links when receiving an unnatural link penalty does anything. It doesn't. When you receive an unnatural link warning the only way, and best way to get the penalty removed is to start removing links.

The faster you get started with removing links the faster you'll see some type of recovery or approval of a reconsideration request.

Get started removing the unnatural links and provide that evidence to Google.
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I would recommend disavowing even the removed links as well, Google will have to re-crawl that page in order to acknowledge that your link was removed and this could take a while and your reconsideration request can not have the expected results.
 
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