rish3 - 5:14 pm on Dec 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

I had a client hit by Penguin due to a competitor buying junk links and pointing them at his site using his preferred keywords. I just disavowed 2 sets of sitewide links set up by my client's competitor. When you do sitewides you have to use a special command in the disavow file: site:domain.com I had to search for instructions on how to do sitewides as Google is very stingy with instructions. The first time I tried this it didn't take as I didn't do it right. I'll report back here if I see any recovery.

You might want to recheck that syntax. It's "domain:site.com", not "site:domain.com".

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