5. Exact anchor matches must be treated with great care
Nearly 50% of the cases had money anchors , which are links using anchor text that exactly matches the keywords a site is trying to rank for. Google's algorithms are very good at detecting these anchors and reporting them to the Google Spam team.
6. In most cases, you have to figure it out on your own.
Typically, when Google contacts webmasters, it does not provide examples of artificial links. You can only expect to see a few examples of bad links pointing to your site after you submit a second reconsideration request. This is another factor that makes it harder to recover from a penalty.
Webmaster question in Google Console Help about lack of examples of artificial links.
Webmaster question in Google Console Help about lack of examples of artificial links.
7. Removing the penalty and recovering takes time
On average, it takes 2-3 reconsideration requests to lift a penalty. Therefore, it can take up to 6 months to remove an inbound link penalty. If you are not careful and patient when filing reconsideration requests, you may prolong the process. Stay calm and follow all the steps indicated by Google.
Removing the penalty and recovering takes time
Knowing all this, running a routine monthly audit of your bahrain phone number data backlink profile is a good habit to have, as it can help you determine which links are causing you problems.
SEMrush Backlinks Audit
Based on these findings, we have improved the algorithms of our Backlink Audit tool and the way the Toxic Score is calculated. In addition to many changes, we have increased the accuracy of detecting pure spam and automatically detecting money and compound anchors.
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