Comments on: Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Hi Molly. It’s not likely this is the cause however anybody buying fake followers has probably been building some dodgy links too. If you want to email your site then we are happy to take a look.

By: Molly

Molly — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:50:00 +0000

Our company’s website just recently received this message from Google as well. We are unsure which links it could be but are concerned primary due to the fact that our marketing department took place in the purchasing of Facebook and Twitter followers recently. Could this have anything to do with the ‘unnatural links’? Thank you

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:14:35 +0000

3 out of our 6 sites have been affected badly by Panda 3.4. We have never got involved in black hat SEO and have a tremendous reputation for the services we offer. We have received the dreaded message from Google…Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to oursites.com etc…..

I am certain that we have been targeted by the competitors and looking at the traffic drop we will be considering redundancies and possibly business closure unless traffic returns soon.

Google is now screwing up the worldwide economy and will be responsible for the closure of many thousands of small to medium sized business

I am now going to link build to create negative SEO for my competitors…Well done Google :-(

10 years hard work down the drain, hope you enjoy your cocktails and private jets, Google directors, sleep well!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:02:53 +0000

Thanks for the post Patrick. We’ve had one of our sites get listed as having “unnatural” links, I think our issue is we have specific anchor text for the majority of the links coming in to the site. The issue is most bloggers on the web now understand the importance of anchor text and will link to sites using the proper anchor text just to help them out. So where do we go from here?

Also, love the fact the people are spamming the comments of a post focused on spam issues.

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Accommodation in Dubai — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:23:54 +0000

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By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:12:29 +0000

Ok let’s do a case study. We got the message March 18th – 7-days late our rankings dropped between 3-12 pages.

Lets share experiences on what you have done -

1. have your rankings returned?

2. What actions have you taken?

By: Fot

Fot — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:03:28 +0000

Any rankings that rely heavily on these type of links have been killed, usually within a week, some even dropped before the message. I have yet to see anybody completely de-indexed, unable to find there site even when searching for the exact URL. If somebody has been booted out it’s probably because every single link they have to their site is from these networks and/or low quality.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:36:05 +0000

Fortunately, I didn’t receive any message in my Google Webmaster Tools, but I am happy that we now get to be notified in case something fishy is going on in our link profile. It’s a great thing!

Steve

By: Henry Sim

Henry Sim — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:48:58 +0000

Goodness. I believe many site owners would have received such notices and I am amaze that Google even bothers to put in resource to do this. Is this an April fool’s joke :)

By: Adam smith

Adam smith — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:47:07 +0000

I haven’t had this happen to me at http://www.childthings.co.uk but have when I ran another Internet business, reduced a fair bit of my web traffic