Over Optimized / Un-Natural Links.

Google Is On To You!

There is a storm coming.

Many of the forums I am active on have seen a huge increase in posts from members regarding the dreaded ‘un-natural links’ email from google.

Website owners have been receiving a message from Google in Webmaster tools or by email stating that they have discovered un-natural links pointing to your website, and that the site has either been de-indexed or penalised until you have ‘cleaned’ up the mess you made of the internet. (Remove the un-natural links).

As you can imagine this can be devastating for a small business website that gets a large share of its traffic from Google, not to mention the valuable time wasted trying to find these links and attempting to get webmasters to remove them.

If you are successful in sorting out that mess you need to follow it up with an apologetic email to google with proof that you have tried to clean up the mess before they will re-index your site. Continue reading “Over Optimized, Un-Natural Links. Google Is On To You!” »