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I would think that using the subOrganization schema markup to denote the "secondary" location and imply which location is the "primary" business location and should be served/favored as the default may help take it a step further.

" If you didn't try very hard to clean up and just disavowed, then my guess (which seems obvious after 6 attempts) is that the reconsideration team said "you made a mess, you can't be bothered to clean it up and now you want us to help you? No, you need to spend more time in hell." "

I'm clearly not going to spend all of my time posting every thought-out reconsideration I wrote and every request for link removal I sent out on a MoZ message board. I find it a little strange that you'd take shots at our effort, being professionals and spending 50+ hours on it, and then reiterating all the basic steps taken during the process.

I asked for advice, not to have our efforts questioned and ridiculed. I'll just look elsewhere in hopes that another board is more helpful and will actually read the question so that I don't have to repeat myself multiple times.

I probably should have clarified more: they have a manual penalty for link farming. They have a brand new site that doesn't have any duplicate content, sneaky redirects or anything else. It's purely link farming and nothing else at all.

The WMT penalty is shown as Unnatural Inbound Links - Impacts Links, which is a downgrade from their previous penalty, but they're still taking hits on what is now a completely destroyed organic keyword profile.

I've sent in 6 Reconsiderations and have used the tools I mentioned above to find links to no avail (except getting the penalty downgraded). I'm just looking for other ideas as far as where to go from here regarding the manual link penalty.

Basically: Should I keep trying to fight it or throw in the towel? And if I do keep trying to fight it, what do I do next since I've used every tool imaginable?

Links were the only issue, but their link profile was massive and poisonous to say the least, haha.

They haven't been completely deindexed, but they don't show up in any non-branded terms anymore. They aren't even ranked 1 for branded terms (their company name). Very, very poorly indexed.

Everything else works fine: fetch as Googlebot, etc. They've just decreased so heavily in the rankings that being deindexed would just about do the same thing at this point.

I've already progressed in the process to the point where I've disavowed everything that basically isn't Facebook, Google, or hugely credible sites similar to those. They're already doing PPC at the moment to try and account for the near 100% loss in Organic traffic that Google is pummeling them with.

I imagine the PPC representative won't be able to help me with my penalty, but I'm down to give it a shot. Anything at this point really =/

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I have a client that I'm trying to get reindexed after they did extensive link farming in the past through other companies. We've poured countless hours in and I've submitted 6 Disavows/Reconsiderations and watched every video from Google on the topic. The client has also invested a significant amount of money into our work.
We've used the following to try and find links:

-Google Webmaster Tools (Shows a limit of 1,000 domains)

-Bing Webmaster Tools

-Link Detox (paid)

-Google Analytics (Lifetime Referral Report)

-Open Site Explorer

All we've gotten is automated responses with 2 sample links. In the latest one, they only supplied 1 sample link, which was odd because it said 'sample URLs'.

Either way, we feel that we're out of options. Is it time to throw in the towel and inform the client, or are there other resources we can exhaust?

Where do we go from here?

Thanks!

Thanks Keri. I did check Bing Webmaster Tools to make sure the site was still verified on there and that there were no glaring errors showing up. It all seemed to be fine, but I'll continue to keep an eye on it and see if there's anything that I might be missing. If Bing isn't recommending anything or telling me that anything is wrong, I just can't imagine what happened to make the traffic drop so much on Bing and not on Google! Very strange...

I have a client that has been struggling with their organic traffic the over the past several months. We figured they had been hit by Penguin and some of Google's other algo changes...But I just dug in a little deeper in Google Analytics, and their traffic is actually up year over year for Google organic, but they are down 75% + for both Bing and Yahoo organic. They drop seemed to occur around April, 2012, and they have rapidly lost Bing and Yahoo traffic ever since. Can anyone help explain why this might be happening? A Bing and Yahoo algo update? Or just fewer people using those search engines possibly? I'm not quite sure how to make up for all the lost traffic in Bing and Yahoo. Any suggestions are appreciated!