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Screenshot of Google Search Console message that reads:Google has detected a pattern of links from your site to other sites that is either unnatural or irrelevant. This pattern attempts to artificially boost other sites' tanking in Google Search results. Such unnatural ranking would cause search results to show preference for results not relevant to the user's actual query. It also violates Google Webmaster Guidelines. Therefore, we are discontinuing the trust in links on your site. This manual spam action has been applied to {url blacked out} .com. To fix this, remove the unnatural links on your site and file a reconsideration request. After we determine that you have complied with our guidelines, we will remove this manual action.

Do You Have A Penalty?

Google will let you know that you have an Unnatural Outbound Links Penalty through their Search Console dashboard (formerly known as Webmaster Tools). If you have not yet signed up for Search Console, that is your first step.

Signing Up For Search Console

Search Console contains a lot of valuable information to you as a site owner, so signing up is a great idea even if you don’t suspect you have a penalty.

  1. Head over to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
  2. Once signed in, click on add a site
  3. You then to verify that you are the site owner using one of several validation methods. I always use the Upload a file to your server method. This requires FTP credentials, which you can get through your host’s dashboard

Checking for a Penalty

Google will send the following email if you are signed up for Search Console and they hit your with a penalty.

Screenshot of Google Search Console message that reads:  Google has detected a pattern of links from your site to other sites that is either unnatural or irrelevant. This pattern attempts to artificially boost other sites\' tanking in Google Search results. Such unnatural ranking would cause search results to show preference for results not relevant to the user\'s actual query. It also violates Google Webmaster Guidelines. Therefore, we are discontinuing the trust in links on your site. This manual spam action has been applied to {url blacked out} .com. To fix this, remove the unnatural links on your site and file a reconsideration request. After we determine that you have complied with our guidelines, we will remove this manual action.

In case you miss the email, you can check manually by:

  1. Click on the name of your site in Search Console
  2. Click on Manual actions in the sidebar on the left
  3. Click on Manual actions
  4. If you have no penalties, you will see the text “No issues detected”
  5. Otherwise, you’ll see something similar to the picture below.

Screenshot of issues detected alert from Google

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