and the URL of your site they point to, and also the anchor text used. If you are lucky, you will get a reply and the link removed. If it is your bad day, there will be no response/or there could be demand for payment for the link to be removed. At this stage, you must keep a record of all your correspondence details with every webmaster and attach that spreadsheet to the reconsideration request you send to Google. In fact, you can also save, as well as take screen shots, of the emails you have sent to webmasters. This will convey to the search engine all about the efforts you have been making. There are certain other things you can do to keep afloat after a Penguin smack: Keep checking your link profile regularly. Take care of the links from your own sites. Update your anchor texts. Aim for a varied backlinks profile by getting links from social media, and high-quality blogs, forums, video sites, and Q&A sites etc. Penguin Recovery Success Stories and What They Teach Us Web experts went on to work overtime to figure out why their site was smacked by the penguin and then finding the route back to all-is-well land. Research conducted by many has helped arrive at this synopsis: A site with 65 percent or more exact anchor text links was hit for sure. One of the sites that recovered from the Penguin was WPMU.org. It could get back on its feet only