Penguin Recovery: Should You Be Removing Links or Just Disavowing?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Edwin Jonk: No more link removal emails?
  
  After a great summary of Pengiun and manual versus algorithmic penalty, ;+Marie Haynes ;sums up a couple of instances where John Mueller commented on how Google treats the disavow file. And she is more or less telling us to not send link removal emails:
  
  " I do NOT do an email link removal campaign for Penguin-hit sites. In my opinion, the cost and time involved in these campaigns is not worth it considering that for most sites, there is usually a poor response rate to link removal requests "
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  Jim Munro: I wonder if this is all part of Google realising they had gone too far and pulling back from their link hysteria campaign. I remember the Panel warning some time ago that this link-fear campaign would only end in tears.
  
  Last week I received an email from a representative from a big US brand asking to remove a link from dumbseoquestions.com. That is messed up.
  
  BTW I replied that we wouldn't do this because of policy but didn't mention that they were the first that this policy had been applied to. :)
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:22:08 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/penguin_recovery_should_you_be_removing_links_or_just_disavowing +Edwin Jonk
  
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