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When you guys receive an unnatural link warning. How do you guys usually respond to it?

Anyone with experience with manual action penalty or something such similar. Please share.

Recently a site of mine got one. In email it only said that unnatural inbound links and violates Google's Guidelines.
Its plain and simple actually. You use the disavow tool to get rid of them.

Just use any backlink checker tool or check through your webmasters tool account. Once you have successfully identified the links just follow any good tutorial on how to use the disavow tool. There are plenty of them out there.
You cannot just use disavow, its a request to google and it will take time so its better to contact the website owner to request for the removal of your unwanted links
(12-16-2019, 10:44 AM)steveposter Wrote: [ -> ]You cannot just use disavow, its a request to google and it will take time so its better to contact the website owner to request for the removal of your unwanted links

If you think contacting site owners is good idea then you have no clue. Tongue They never response and not atleast to your terms or according to your terms.

Its better to disavow them. Yeah, it may take a month or two but it will be done. And moreover as Google will be doing it itself so any penalties that are responsible for those links will be removed automatically.
Hello Friends,

Generally, unnatural links are artificial links mainly intended to manipulate a page's ranking. These can include purchased links or links created by scrapers and spammers that attach themselves to your site under the radar and potentially link your site to another in a bad neighborhood of the internet.

If you’ve noticed a drop in traffic from Google or received an unnatural link warning in Google Webmaster Tools, you’re likely in a panic to start having links to your website removed. But before you go on a link removal crusade, you need to take the time to make sure that you don’t inadvertently remove good links to your website. Let’s look at some steps you need to take before banishing links to your website forever.

you need to get rid of the unnatural links. It’s a little bit more difficult than in the case of links from your site because you don’t know which domains have unnatural links pointing to your site. You need to undergo a couple of steps:

Download a list of all your links to your site using Webmaster Tools
Check every link to see whether it’s unnatural or not. To make your job easier you should start checking the domains that have the most links to you. You can ease this job by using third-party tools which specialize in identifying types of unnatural links, such as cognitiveSEO (disclaimer: this is my company). There are a lot of types of unnatural links and you need to identify them all in order to get rid of your penalty
After you’ve identified the rotten links that are harming your ranking, you could contact the webmasters of those domains and request that they remove the link or add a rel=” no follow” tag
Google recommends only after you’ve done a serious work contacting webmasters to remove the links should you use the Disavow links tool. Google created this tool to help you get rid of the links you were unable to get removed. Only after you’ve made an effort to remove the unnatural links that were violating Google’s guidelines you might have the manual action removed.
In some cases, Google will remove all the bad links, and your penalty will be lifted. But usually, it takes more than a couple of reconsideration attempts to make Google lift your penalty and begin the recovery process.
Yes, such links are built in quantity pointing towards your website then it is a sign of someone doing Negative SEO for your website.
I advise you to use the disavow tool for your website.
Once you submit the links that you want to be disavowed. Google will work for you and not count those links against your favor.