Would you be willing to give me a few quick minutes of advice? I made a really stupid mistake doing SEO for a client's site... I built a ton of spun articles (like 2000!) that I meant to put as support links to my client's backlinks but somehow got mixed up and sent them right at their site instead. 16/18 urls I linked to got SMASHED in Google (like dropping from page 2, 3 and 4 to not in first 10 pages). I am considering using the disavow tool but it seems kinda risky, as I haven't got any messages in GWT. Would you suggest instead that I remove all the links by hand? Thanks y'all.
Google Disavow or Remove 2000 links?
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SEO is not a game. It's shit like this that gives the industry a bad rep.
Anyways, you should delete each backlink by hand and then delete the accounts. Since you control the accounts you'll be good. No need to disavow.
Also, The SEO you are doing is pretty spammy. In the long run, your client is going to tank. If you screwed up like this using powerful software, it's bound to happen again.
You should first take the time and rank a site by hand, then complete understand the white hat methods, then complete learn the software, and figure out how to use it properly.
Good luck bro.
Anyways, you should delete each backlink by hand and then delete the accounts. Since you control the accounts you'll be good. No need to disavow.
Also, The SEO you are doing is pretty spammy. In the long run, your client is going to tank. If you screwed up like this using powerful software, it's bound to happen again.
You should first take the time and rank a site by hand, then complete understand the white hat methods, then complete learn the software, and figure out how to use it properly.
Good luck bro.
how do you know you've been slapped? you could be dancing. i'm not as experienced as ccarter so bare that in mind. but i've had pages drop out of the top 100 only to come back even stronger.
A couple of things lead me to believe he actually tanked his site.
1. 2000 articles of Spun content backlink to main site.
2. What are the chances he used WordAI, or whatever High quality spinning program? Doubtful, since he has 2,000 versions of the content.
3. Even though Matt Cutts himself said very few people should use Disavow, OP wants to do it - out of laziness. He realizes now he'll have to go to 2,000 websites, delete the content and delete the account, so he asked the question knowing his guy feeling was he was going to have to do it manually.
There is a chance it might be dancing... But I have a feeling this is a small client, probably local business or something that didn't do any vetting of the OP - based off of OP's method of doing "SEO", which is just spam according to him. Usually those websites have less than 100 visitors daily, so 2,000 backlinks from spun content will tank that.
He's lucky he didn't get a WMT notice, cause if that were the case, that means a manual review MAY have occurred. So he still has a chance to clean up his act by manually deleting each backlink and letting the algo adjust itself.
Maybe I'm completely wrong.
Hi ccarter. Thanks for the replies. I deleted as many of the links as possible. Hopefully things will bounce back soon with some slow quality links and time.
fwiw, I don't use software, but someone I bought from here sure does (hence the tripple overdelivery that helped screw me)! I'm doing mostly quality linking believe it or not, with original content. This was intended to be tier two as I wrote. Admit I have a long way to go though.
Again, appreciated the feedback and advice.
fwiw, I don't use software, but someone I bought from here sure does (hence the tripple overdelivery that helped screw me)! I'm doing mostly quality linking believe it or not, with original content. This was intended to be tier two as I wrote. Admit I have a long way to go though.
Again, appreciated the feedback and advice.
Another more long-term problem with "SEO" like this is what's likely going to happen in the future. Crap content doesn't age well, and the next time a Google update rolls out, your client's SEO could be permanently slammed. Something very similar happened to one of the sites I write for, and now they're in a near-hopeless position (went from page 1 to 234, thousands of links to repair without the time or funds to do it).
You should be do it manually or else the website will be suffer. Before doing such, make sure that you'll be achieving what have you aimed.