I just got "Unnatural inbound links"

As the ones above have said Adwords has nothing to do with this.

I would recommend doing the free trial on Moz just to help you find all your backlinks plus it helps you see which ones are crappy and so forth so you're not doing like some and running out killing off all your good links.

With the Unnnatural Links warning, I would strongly say hold off on the Disavow tool as you wont' ever know if it's worked or taken effect. I'm speaking from experience on this one. Once you're able to pinpoint the crap links, definitely e-mail (using Gmail as G watches this stuff too) webmasters explaining that you would like it if they could take your link off, delete profile, etc. As long as G knows you're trying to do something to fix it, that's all that matters.

They're not caring so much about who's fault, etc., it's just that you're doing something to fix the situation. Usually after you do the first round, file your reconsideration request and you'll usually hear back within the week and if there's more bad links they're finding, they'll give you some examples. If they are legitimate links (and G's been having this issue happening lately), let them know and do another round of checking on your backlinks. If they're all good, write a full reconsideration request again for G explaining what you've done, etc.

I think some people are either killing links off really fast which looks suspicious to G or just ignoring and realizing the problem late in the game. G's a pain in the butt, but if you respond and show them you're trying to work with them, they can help make changes quicker. It sucked having to suck up to them in the Recon Request, but they're useful for some things.

The guy from adwords put me on hold and checked my site as soon as I mentioned unnatural inbound links. He came back saying its not that bad and it might be an error sent by webmaster tools. But my site is still dropped in serps.

ttavid said:

The guy from adwords put me on hold and checked my site as soon as I mentioned unnatural inbound links. He came back saying its not that bad and it might be an error sent by webmaster tools. But my site is still dropped in serps.

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I've had the same EXACT scenario and just in the last two days. No message under "manual actions" in GWMT but did get an email saying unnatural inbound links and manual spam action was applied. Site first lost like 50 places and now it's OFF THE MAP.

Yes to Sape links for me too, HOWEVER, ALL of mine (all 60 or so) were from .com, .net. or .org. NOTHING from .ru at all. I hand picked EVERY link. I've killed all the links since I had the sape acct myself and thus full control. Gonna wait a few days and put the reconsideration request in as this is NOT a throw away site.

PLEASE PM me if you find a way to get the penalty removed as I DEFINITELY want to go that route with this domain if possible (301 is my last resort but will work). I will do the same for you if I get mine back.

Thanks and good luck man.

sounds like a sape issue homey.. were you using sape?

a few buddies of mine just got nailed left and right with warnings and huge drops in raknings for using them. I even found one huge seo company that has their homepage not even ranking for their businessname anymore. ouch!

just disavowing your links wont work

you need to remove your links that violate googles tos, while im sure thats a lot of them i would tell you to start with those paid links from sape. then move onto any other paid links that you have. after that start tackling the web 2.0, and directory style links.

its time to get started yesterday though. screwing around with any other advice than removing links is bad advice. unless you can ditch the domain and start over.

interesting it has happened so soon after the recent sape hit. Are you aware of the types of links that google disaproves? if they are sape or similar "blog network" type of links you should remove the links as soon as possible

Why everybody believes that it was sape-hit update? It looks like you read only threads with 'Sape' in title. Don't you realize that in this update Google targeting something else?

You maybe right I noticed another blog network I used that just went down also.

Stizerg said:

Why everybody believes that it was sape-hit update? It looks like you read only threads with 'Sape' in title. Don't you realize that in this update Google targeting something else?

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ttavid said:

You maybe right I noticed another blog network I used that just went down also.

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left and right you are getting bitchslapped!

you have some serious work to do if you want to get this website to recover. Your cant do much, they are a salesman for Google and dont deal with the algorithm.

so what does this mean for you?? get yourself off of htese crappy blog networks. get yourself off of sape services unless you are managing it yourself. even if it is "high quality". and get ready to delete the rest of your violating links if you plan on ranking again with google and this domain.

that means a lot of hard work to come. either do it yourself or hire a link delete service.

As much as I hate to say it. You are right about the slaps. The good thing is I'm confident I will rank again very soon.

calling adwords won't help

Nothing personal but I hope your wrong.

ttavid said:

The guy from adwords put me on hold and checked my site as soon as I mentioned unnatural inbound links. He came back saying its not that bad and it might be an error sent by webmaster tools. But my site is still dropped in serps.

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Your adwords guy is full of doodoo.

ttavid said:

But I'm not cheap. And I don't work for them. Maybe the sape links I might have gotten from a very reputable source that I paid allot for was cheap?

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If you're buying from SAPE, then what you paid is considered cheap.

Unless you paid 15-25 bucks/month for each PR1-2 link?

That's about what I get paid per link on my barely developed pr1-2 blogs.

In any case, I don't think that's what bart was referring to when he said "cheap labor."

Also, just because google mentions unnatural links, it does not always mean manual action was taken. Google updated their policy a few months ago saying that they will sometimes send the email when they notice something suspicious with the incoming links, and it is nothing more than a "heads up." But since you mentioned that you used SAPE, this could be a completely different story. But, like bartosimpsonio said, you might have just turned yourself in.

All my SAPE sites that got the message dropped out of the rankings after about a week. The difference is my webmaster tools actually said "partial" manual action was taken, except there was nothing partial about it.

In any case, I hope you knew the risk of these links before purchasing them. They are definitely not the best choice to use for your authority sites or client sites.

would have to agree. Matt tweeted about it (russian links) month ago or so those services selling SAPE should have been aware of it or at least taken caution if not stoped those services all together. SAPE services provided results at one point but are risky and more black hat which needs to be stated by the service providers.
slow action is the better route.
continued MANUAL linking building is important not to draw more attention especially if you plan on buying safe links in the future.
buying links is really the only way smaller start-ups can be found on google and the entire principle with googles updates is to give the smaller companies/sites a chance.

crazedspyker said:

If you're buying from SAPE, then what you paid is considered cheap.

Unless you paid 15-25 bucks/month for each PR1-2 link?

That's about what I get paid per link on my barely developed pr1-2 blogs.

In any case, I don't think that's what bart was referring to when he said "cheap labor."

Also, just because google mentions unnatural links, it does not always mean manual action was taken. Google updated their policy a few months ago saying that they will sometimes send the email when they notice something suspicious with the incoming links, and it is nothing more than a "heads up." But since you mentioned that you used SAPE, this could be a completely different story. But, like bartosimpsonio said, you might have just turned yourself in.

All my SAPE sites that got the message dropped out of the rankings after about a week. The difference is my webmaster tools actually said "partial" manual action was taken, except there was nothing partial about it.

In any case, I hope you knew the risk of these links before purchasing them. They are definitely not the best choice to use for your authority sites or client sites.

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Update: I just checked the manual actions and they did implement the partial site. I know this probably wont work but I told them that a competitor was doing negative seo. There is someone actually doing negative seo on my site so it is a fact. If anyone has experience in getting there site back and doing seo on it again I would appreciate any help.