Comments on: Google Penalty Recovery Using the Disavow Tool – [Manual Action & Penguin 3.0 Refresh]

By: Arcs

Arcs — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:27:19 +0000

Hey i like this dude, it’s a great way to disavow and avoid googles penalty

By: Praveen

Praveen — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 03:34:50 +0000

Hi George,

You have explained in detail on Google penalty recovering procedures.

Surely it will be helpful for many.

By: Joaquin Rios

Joaquin Rios — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 09:20:54 +0000

Many think they make use of disavowes such as telling Google that you admit to cheating, although it is also possible that you have a negative seo attack, which means that you already enter your radar as it is as if you admit that you have cheated , dont you think?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 06:34:01 +0000

Hello Razvan Gavrilas,
Thanks for sharing your experience. I know Google Penalty recovery has always been a painful job, but I enjoy this job very much. I had a plan to write a case study on the Google manual action for pure spam. But due to my shortage of time I could not do that. Your post is really good. I think a lot of people will be benefitted by this post. Recently I have successfully recovered a Google manual action penalty. The manual action was for pure spam. I have recovered it within two months. A lot of people who have become frustrated when they receive a manual action from Google. My client also very frustrated. He had a running business. His website was well known, throw out the country. After receiving a manual action from Google he had become frustrated as well. When I solved his problem he had a big smiling face to watch. Throw out this great post and my comment, I want to give a message to the people, please don’t frustrate when you receive a penalty from Google. We can successfully recover that. Thanks again for your great post.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:57:00 +0000

Generally people think that, if they use disavow tool, their penalty will be lifted but this is not true. You have to work in link removal and then you have to go for disavow. And Google can take some amount of time to load that file in their database. After that, they will take some action on it.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:43:27 +0000

disavowing links means those links did not exist. if they powered the rankings and now they are taking into consideration anymore it means that those rankings are not coming back.

By: Krzysztof Furtak

Krzysztof Furtak — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:47:08 +0000

Just FYI: don’t expect top10 again if number of bad links is high for example 80%. Penalty will be lifted, but “previous” serps not (especially for keywords You wanted to rank on and those have that high number of bad links).

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:36:23 +0000

exactly Cathy 😉

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:25:21 +0000

Hi Razvan,

You clearly demonstrated that where this is a will, there is a way! Otherwise getting that penalty removed was a nearly impossible task, especially getting rid of those bad inbound links, that email outreach was innovative and brilliant.

By: George Harris

George Harris — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:34:41 +0000

@coinspeaker – glad you enjoyed the article. To answer your questions:

1. The traffic increase shows the penalty impact has been lifted. From here the sky’s the limit to grow the website’s organic traffic but that’s a long term strategy. You’d see a far bigger short term jump with the removal of a full manual penalty.

2. Comparing traffic year on year is a very well established practice for monitoring growth/decline over the long term. The main reason is that it mostly eliminates fluctuations caused by seasonality.