By: RH
Matt Cutts is out with a new video today, answering the question, "How do I know which links to remove when I get an "unnatural links" message?"
Matt gave some insight to a new feature that Google will be coming out with that will give you "a flavor" for what kind of links they are talking about. Matt spoke about Google becoming more transparent.
I think Google should be completely transparent on this issue, if they know what links they deem as unnatural, then let the webmaster know so they can work to remove them.
Stop with the half solutions, this is someone's livelihood that you are being cavalier about.
Here is the transcript if you don't want to watch the video:
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today's question comes from the dazzle
in los angeles
in los angeles
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who wants to know google webmaster tools
says i have a natural lakes because
says i have a natural lakes because
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little help as to which specific links
are bad
are bad
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since i've never purchased things i
don't know which ones to have removed
don't know which ones to have removed
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and i'm scared of removing good ones
before her by traffic suggestions
before her by traffic suggestions
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excellent question so we try to become
more transparent and when we were saying
more transparent and when we were saying
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links were affecting a reputation of the
entire site we would tell people about
entire site we would tell people about
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that
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more recently we've been telling people
in opening up and saying hey we still
in opening up and saying hey we still
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like your side your side overall might
be good but maybe there's an individual
be good but maybe there's an individual
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exercise that we don't trust now the
problem is we work at that time giving
problem is we work at that time giving
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specific samples so uh…
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one feature that we're all that is the
ability to sort by recent discovery of
ability to sort by recent discovery of
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links you can actually get the date when
we discovered a link
we discovered a link
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sophie sort that way you can look for
the recently xx but a feature that we
the recently xx but a feature that we
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are working on and that we are in the
process of rolling out which i'm pretty
process of rolling out which i'm pretty
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excited about is that we will actually
uh…
uh…
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will basically give you examples
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so it's uh… you know as where building
the incident whenever a webmaster
the incident whenever a webmaster
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analysts or something like that it's an
okay these are linked not to trust will
okay these are linked not to trust will
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include an example link
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uh… and you might get one you make it
to you make it through to three
to you make it through to three
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depending the basically we'll give you
an idea of the sorts of links that we
an idea of the sorts of links that we
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are no longer trusting
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now it's not exhaustive sa comprehensive
but it should give you a flavor you know
but it should give you a flavor you know
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is it a bunch of widget links were you
doing
doing
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you know a bunch of keyword rich anchor
text in article bank article marketing
text in article bank article marketing
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type stuff um… maybe you were trying
to do paid links but maybe you hired an
to do paid links but maybe you hired an
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agency and and turns out they were doing
pavelic said he didn't realize it but
pavelic said he didn't realize it but
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um… i would look in the text of the
message is
message is
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over time we're we're working very hard
on trying to include a an example or two
on trying to include a an example or two
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link so that when you get that message
you have an idea of exactly where to
you have an idea of exactly where to
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look and i hope that that's helpful
