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So as I mentioned I would never delete a page without a redirect (even if that is a redirect to the homepage).  If you do that, there will be a minimal amount of authority that you lose.  There's no way to know exactly how much, but it should be marginal.

As for the referral traffic, I mentioned how to measure that above.  But again with a 301 redirect, you will keep that traffic and if it is still relevant traffic, it should still add to your bottom line.

I would remove the link.  You can keep the testimonial and logo.  Removing the link will not impact your rankings.

What do you mean by "retiring"?  Is there another page that you could redirect to so you don't lose the authority those backlinks are providing?

As for seeing how much referral traffic you could lose, you can use Google Analytics for that. Go to Behavior > Site Content > Landing Pages.  Then in the secondary dimension, go to Acquisition > Medium.

I've never heard of anyone being penalized for sponsorship links.  I mean if you think about it everything would be a paid link.  If an organization pays an employee to run white hat link building, then are those paid links because the person receives a salary? I think you are fine.  Sponsorship links are an excellent way to engage in the local community and receive a link for your efforts.

Moz needs to be correct / up to date in order to push the correct data to aggregators.

I updated my Google My Business page weeks ago and the name of my business still has not changed in Moz Local.  Of course it won't allow me to change the name.  Please help.

Okay, interesting.  One of the example links provided isn't even in the index apparently.  Also, I am trying the following search, but I think I am doing something wrong because I am getting zero results back.

inurl:member -site:clientsite.com + "keyword phrase" + link:clientsite.com

I am trying to find pages link to my client's site, that are not on my client's site, that have member in the url, that use keyword somewhere.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for responding.  I actually did exactly what you suggested the first time around.  I pulled from every available source including Majestic, GWT, OSE, LinkDetox, and Ahrefs. I was only able to achieve a 52% removal.  But I ran it for a month and contacted some webmasters up to 9 times.  I did disavow at the domain level and linked to both the disavow and link pruning sheets within your the request.

And again, the link examples that came back were not in ANY of the tools and sources used.  So my question is, how do I obtain a more complete link sample.

Hello all,

I am trying to recover a site from a manual penalty.  I already submitted once.  Here's what we did. We took the link profile from webmaster tools, majestic seo, ahrefs, link detox, and ose.  We manually looked at every link to exclude good links.  Then used a tool to run the removal campaign.  Submitted a disavow file and reconsideration request.

Google came back with a denial.  When I looked at the three example links that Google provided, they were definitely spammy (forum profile and comment spam).  But none of them were in any of the original csv downloads from GWT, Ahrefs, Majestic, OSE, or LinkDetox.

What can I do?

Thanks in advance for any help.

What do you mean by "retiring"?  Is there another page that you could redirect to so you don't lose the authority those backlinks are providing?

As for seeing how much referral traffic you could lose, you can use Google Analytics for that. Go to Behavior > Site Content > Landing Pages.  Then in the secondary dimension, go to Acquisition > Medium.

I've never heard of anyone being penalized for sponsorship links.  I mean if you think about it everything would be a paid link.  If an organization pays an employee to run white hat link building, then are those paid links because the person receives a salary? I think you are fine.  Sponsorship links are an excellent way to engage in the local community and receive a link for your efforts.

I would remove the link.  You can keep the testimonial and logo.  Removing the link will not impact your rankings.