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Hello community, I haven't posted for a while here but I have a question which I wondered if anyone here would know anything about as it is beyond my own realms of understanding.

I send out emails from time to time with a view to garner some new web links or articles, no more than ten or twenty in a day and maybe three or four times per month maximum. Sometimes the emails are the same but to different addresses.

Recently I noticed that I had very low reponse from a mail out, where I normally recieve a good response. I then had a friend tell me two of my emails went to their span box and I worried that I may have been flagged as spam or maybe someone has hacked my email address and spammed people.

I did a quick check for my laptop IP address in two online spam checker websites and they both flagged my IP address as being on http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL882402 This is a bit concerning and I wondered if I should be taking steps to remove my IP from this ban list, and also is there a way in which I can check if an email is going straight to spam boxes or even deleted without reading.. I use GMail and have configured other email addresses in that.

I'd really appreciate your help on this forum folkies as it's new territory to me and I'm keen to stay on the right side of the web police.

Yours Wooly.

As you may know by now, Google is targeting link spam with their new search engine updates. Recently announced at the Google blog, they want you to remove paid or unnatural/spam links pointing to web pages by downloading backlinking data to your website and contacting site owners to remove links.

Message from the Google Team:

They noted on their blog that in less severe cases, they target links which they feel were made due to spammy or artificial linking schemes and distrust those links instead of taking action on the entire website's ranking. Matt Cutts also pointed out not to panic about the new messages due to unnatural linking.

However - that message was not meant for the spammers. Innocent webmasters should not worry as much as they are. It's the spammers that uses spammy tools such as scrapebox and the webmasters that pays for bulk link submissions services, to worry. There is a possibility of your website's web page being unable to rank for one of your phrases IF you have over 100 unnatural links with its anchor text linking to the page.

If you've payed for links or participated in artificial linking schemes, try your best to remove those links or contact the website owners to remove said links. The new feature of Webmaster Tools (Google) allows you to easily download the links pointing to your web pages therefore finding websites will not be an issue. If you've received the email from Google and think your website was affected, after removing the spammy/artificial links, submit a reconsideration request for your website.

Do note, advertising your website naturally is NOT an issue. Your website will NOT be affected if someone finds your product and writes a quick review of it on their blog. With these strict rules in place just don't try to "game the system" and aim to rank your web pages for keywords you're targeting in Google by using artificial linking methods (and of course, spam).

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