Here’s the story. Stratford Retirement got hit with a Google penalty. Hard. Over the past few months I worked pro bono with the team at Stratford, an assisted living community in Seattle, after they reached out to me to help them recover. Their previous marketing firm had built 1000′s, literally 1000′s of low-quality directory, spun article submission, and spammy network links all with over-optimized anchor text. Continue Reading
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Joe Griffiths @B3JosephI've seen multiple successful recoveries off the back of a combination of link removal and disavowal in the past few months. Definitely works, just be careful and try and rip down as many site wide links as you can so it looks like you've got a good portion of the bad link profile taken down and you're disavowing the rest.
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Website Sales Lab @websitesaleslabFor manual penalties yes but for penguin doesn't seem so.
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Joe Griffiths @B3Joseph
Still waiting on the refresh for that one mate. Hoping that when it happens the disavow will be taken into account, which in theory it should.
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