How have you dealt with link penalties?

[andrewskyler]

I obtained an error, my site just came up on page 1 yesterday but today I can not still find it in the top 100, actually I thought my website was punished even though there was clearly no webmaster notification.
So How have you dealt with this?

[admissioninfo123]

A Google penalty is the negative impact on a website's search rankings based on updates to Google's search algorithms and/or manual review. The penalty can be a by-product of an algorithm update or an intentional penalization for various black-hat SEO techniques

[jannatul18]

The first and foremost thing is to review your backlinks, you can use Google Search Console for this purpose. Try to identify which links are unnatural and unauthentic, then make a list of those links. After completing the identification you need to try to remove them manually, if not possible then use Google disavow tool. Google takes some times to restore the ranking so you have to be patient for this as well.

[damponting44]

A website directory is typically a list of links to other websites which can be sorted into various categories. Webmasters have the option to submit their sites to these directories in the hopes of creating more backlinks to their site.

[Chiru]

If you lost your ranking within one day then there may be lots of factors like poor navigation, spun contents, website takes more time to load etc. But if you think that it is due to poor backlink profile then go ahead and Google disavow tool or remove those links manually if possible. Send an email to a website owners to remove your link.

[Yuga]

If your site has been hit by a link penalty, it means you've got too many bad links in your link profile and you'll need to either remove them or disavow them to recover. You'll need to clean up your link profile. Then, if you received a manual penalty, you can submit a reconsideration request to Google.