The exact order to work a link manual action

The exact order to work a link manual action

Got an 'unnatural links' manual action? Panic-uploading 4,000 domains is how reconsideration requests get rejected. Sequence:

— Read the action wording. 'Affects links' (partial) vs 'whole site' changes everything.
— Export links from Search Console first — that's the set Google actually sees.
— Separate self-made (guest-post networks, paid anchors, PBNs you bought) from organic.
— Attempt removal on the worst self-made ones. Document the outreach — reconsideration reviewers want effort, not just a disavow dump.
— Then disavow the rest at domain level.
— File reconsideration with a plain-English account of what you did and stopped doing.

Reality check: the disavow file is the last step, not the first. The reviewer is grading your honesty about manipulation, not the size of your upload.