Unnatural inbound links

I'm going to evaluate the existing traffic to the site. then considet taking the site down and moving it to another site.


According to Trialynn it will take a month before the old site is no longer indexed. I have about 40 articles that I can move.

I'll rewrite these articles too so even if the articles themselves do not get indexed I will have some solid helpful articles for my visitors.


Thanks to everyone that responded!!

Wow! There is a ton of information below. What did you decide to do?

great question, great comments, great WA community, in awe..

You should go to your Webmaster Tools Account, then go to
>Search Traffic >Manual Actions.

That's where you will see exactly what the manual spam action is really about for each backlink.

I found an article that walks you through your options for dealing with these.

http://www.e2msolutions.com/blog/how-to-identify-a-manual-spam-action-and-recover/

What you do depends on the nature of the action Google has placed on the various parts or the whole of your site.

If you have spam comments approved on your site, I recommend that you delete them or at the very least remove all links within them.

You should only use the disavow tool after you have tried every other way to remove the links:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2309486/Matt-Cutts-Use-the-Link-Disavow-Tool-Even-if-Your-Site-Hasnt-Been-Penalized

After you have removed or corrected the issues for each type of issue identified, you can ask Google to review your site and remove the manual spam action.



~Jude

I would pm leoemery and ask him or labman… they know how to take care of those kinds of issues… I would not duplicate the content yet… there is a process to that which is why I would message the 2 above… I am not technical to explain it in an intelligible way… Good luck...

If you put the content on a new site you can do a 301 redirect to indicate that the content has moved to a different URL. I think there is a plugin that will do this.

Alternatively, you could try to use the disavow tool and see how that works for you. However, before you use the disavow tool I think you have to try to get as many of the bad links that are pointing to your site taken down yourself by contacting the webmaster and asking them to remove them.

Do you need the site up? if you do not leave the copied stuff down for a month and you should be okay. You just need a good crawl to get rid of it or you can go into webmaster tools and delete the site.

Yes, I'd just move whats good, you can't change their mind so you might as well.