link removal requests

Banned 11 years ago

Hi, I receive many, what you can do is have a ready to reply email asking for $100 for link removal.
Ignore any threats, they are based on nothing.
Nobody can complain to anything, your web hosting or google about a link to their site. If they have no intention on paying for the work to remove the link, they may finally threathen you to tell google, ignore that too.

That's the ay it is, and it's been many months now, about a year or so/more don't remember.. They spam a lot about that, just like they used to spam about link exchange and crap guest blogging.

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Entrecon

11 years ago

I told one of them that after the emails I was ignoring started to get too frequent and too accusational. Never heard from them again. I wasn't worried about any ramifications, I just wanted to be a good and wanted to know how others were dealing with it.

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Anton543

11 years ago

Seriously, Google should be clever enough to discount links they think are dubious. Someone can maliciously link a competing site from a bad neighborhood to harm them and I don't think it is the job of the innocent webmaster to request link(s) removal. For one, their request will likely fall on deaf ears; secondly, it means wasting a lot of time that could be spent creating good content, or something else productive.

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freotech

11 years ago

I presumed that the articles would have been scraped from article directories like ezines.
See their terms of service :

EzineArticles.com Terms of Service for Authors :

Your submission to EzineArticles.com also gives unconditional permission for your articles to be reprinted in other ezines, websites and print publications. We ask publisher(s) to follow our reprint rules as stated below, but you acknowledge that the enforcement of our terms of service for publishers is at your risk and cost and not ours. In other words, if someone violates your copyright -- it will be 100% up to you to take legal action against those who abuse your copyright to protect your interests. If you do not agree to these terms, do not submit your articles.

You are not breaching any copyright since you copying those articles as they are and citing the sources.

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Hi, I receive many, what you can do is have a ready to reply email asking for $100 for link removal.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Entrecon

I have a couple of websites that have articles on them that I either grabbed from an article website or were added to my site via a plugin.

If you've taken them from article directories, within the terms of service of each article directory, then you've published them with the author's permission.

I'm not sure what you mean by "were added to my site via a plugin", though. If they were scraped from anywhere other than legitimate article directories and in accordance with those sites' terms of service, then clearly you need to comply with any and all removal requests, otherwise the copyright owners can simply serve a DMCA site take-down notice on your host!

Originally Posted by JamesColin

Ignore any threats, they are based on nothing.

If you've published them without their authors' permission, then take notice of that comment at your peril!

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JamesColin Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

IIf you've published them without their authors' permission, then take notice of that comment at your peril!

I was referring exclusively about the links. Not any other content.

I am talking about the links because when those emails started to come in after google webmaster tool started to display stupid messages about "bad links" I have been wondering if there was some ground to ask a webmaster to remove a link to one's site.. And my hosting company told me ther eis no ground, for instance they can't send a DMCA and have my site shut down. They can't sue me, etc.. So if they want a link removed, they better have a budget for it because I'm not working for free for unknown people, even with a nicely worded email, even less with threats in it :-)

In my case I'm not publishing any article from free articles directories. I just have pages with links to several sites, and so I received many such link removal requests. There are seo companies making money from the same stupid customers who paid them before to create the links, and also there are sites made on purpose to send mass emails to ask for link removal with already written emails..

All those people are working for google like sheeps (well sheeps don't work) and they expect ME to work for them who work for google and for free... They can keep dreaming.
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cybercyborg

11 years ago

yes they come all the time... the best is just to ignore it. install the plugin called broken link checker... if they want to remove it because the links are broken, the plugin will search through your posts for broken links and removes them.
on another note... if you promote the IM niche, how about adding their emails to your list?

Originally Posted by Entrecon

I have a couple of websites that have articles on them that I either grabbed from an article website or were added to my site via a plugin. They all have the author information/links on them. A of late I have been getting requests to remove the links and/or articles. I know these are coming based on penguin/panda updates, but my question is, what is my responsibility too remove them? One or two isn't a big deal but they add up and it does take time away from other projects I could be working on. Also, if the request comes from an email address that isn't related to the link they want removed, how do I know it is a legitimate request?

Any insight is appreciated.

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Entrecon

11 years ago

Yes, all of them were from locations like ezinearticles. The plugin was/is unique article wizard. I don't remember if I disabled it or some configuration changed, but I haven't had a post from it since about June 2011.

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Green Moon 11 years ago

As others have said, if you had the right to republish the articles from an articles directory originally, then the authors have almost certainly given up any rights to force you to take down the articles or delete links.

I haven't received many request to remove articles or links because I never picked up much from article directories but when I do get them, I just ignore them. Even if I thought that my link was going to make one iota of difference to their Google ranking (and I don't think that is true), they got the value of the link for several years and they have to take the good with the bad.

I like the idea of charging $100 for removing the link but don't really think anyone would pay it, so even taking the time to cut and paste a standardized reply is more than I plan to do.
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Entrecon

11 years ago

So, on a related note, the most recent request I received was from a wedding favor company that had 2 articles on my wedding niche website. Polite email asking to at least remove the the links, but I could remove the whole article if it was easier. Yes, I could do that quicker than what I have spent on this thread, but it is one of many. These articles have been on my site for years. I am sure this article could be on dozens of other websites, but how much "damage" are these 2 links really going to their site's standing?

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kindsvater

11 years ago

[QUOTE=Entrecon;7904832...they add up and it does take time away from other projects I could be working on. [/QUOTE]

Just ignore them. I wouldn't waste any time removing a link. You have better things to do.

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PerformanceMan

11 years ago

I'm going to go against the grain here and say 'take the f-in' link down.'

It's really not that much WORK to remove a link. They want it removed, so remove it.

Or you can needlessly create tons of unseen enemies and lots of DISAVOWAL requests that eventually get your site de-indexed.

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Entrecon

11 years ago

Originally Posted by PerformanceMan

I'm going to go against the grain here and say 'take the f-in' link down.'

It's really not that much WORK to remove a link. They want it removed, so remove it.

Or you can needlessly create tons of unseen enemies and lots of DISAVOWAL requests that eventually get your site de-indexed.

For two links, yes it would be easier. But the one I received yesterday there were probably more than 2 dozen on a website with over 5000 articles. To find all of their articles and delete them is probably an hour or two of work even if they provide a list of all the articles. The titles were all different and several different author names.

But even if they were all only a couple of articles, they add up if you start getting 1 or 2 requests a day. I was asking now because in the past year I have gotten maybe 2 requests, but all of a sudden I have received 2 requests in less than 24 hours. I wanted to get done feedback before this became too regular of a thing.

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Anton543

11 years ago

What happens when someone decides to get a competing site linked from spammy sites? How does the innocent webmaster get these taken off? This is why I think Google should try to develop an algorithm clever enough to discount these bad links and also links that are bought.

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Anton543

What happens when someone decides to get a competing site linked from spammy sites?

The competing site suffers.

Google opened up the door to "negative SEO" for the first time (to many people's surprise) with the "Penguin update". Some months later, they had to introduce the link disavowal tool, so that people would at least have a way of correcting that damage.

Originally Posted by Anton543

I think Google should try to develop an algorithm clever enough to discount these bad links and also links that are bought.

I imagine they have that, though it's not always too easy, perhaps, for them to know what's bought? Sometimes they might manage it, if the links are on obvious spam-fest pages, I suppose, but those are the type they'll penalize anyway? (Call me a skepchick but I always think that most people who buy backlinks have such little concept of how SEO works that they're terribly unlikely to buy any decent ones anyway: they tend to think in terms of "numbers of backlinks" and "page ranks" rather than in terms of quality and relevance.) I suspect those nice people at Google are more interested in their Google glasses, at the moment, or whatever these things are that we keep reading about? :p
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Anton543

11 years ago

This is a time consuming feature that people shouldn't need to worry about. If they they purchased, yes, then they should use it, but if you all of sudden get spammed by some idiot with tons of spammy links from lots of different IPs, I really don't see why a webmaster should concern themselves with that. Two hours spent mining the bad links could be two hours spent creating content. Most people who run sites do so on a part time basis. They often write content in the evenings after getting back from work. Why should they need to spend time removing links which they had nothing to do with? I actually can't believe Google wants you to mine for bad links and remove them manually.

My concern is this, you could one day get up and find you have been spammed with hundreds or even thousands of junk links. How do you then use the disallow tool? That would be tremendous waste of resources or money on the part of the webmaster/

By the way, since we are discussing links purchased, how would Google know whether you are guest blogging or paying for that 'guest' blog? Not that I will pay for one.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Anton543

Two hours spent mining the bad links could be two hours spent creating content.

Yes, indeed.

Originally Posted by Anton543

I actually can't believe Google wants you to mine for bad links and remove them manually.

Call me a skepchick but my own guess is that they didn't think all the effects of the Penguin update through as carefully as they might have done, which was why they introduced this afterthought "link disavowal tool" only in October/November last year as a belated response to their increasing perception that the storm of protest about the potential for "negative SEO" (which they'd always previously avoided) really wasn't going to die down and go away, and that it was actually justified.

It's all just "yet another reason" (as if one were needed!) not to depend on SEO traffic.

Originally Posted by Anton543

By the way, since we are discussing links purchased, how would Google know whether you are guest blogging or paying for that 'guest' blog? Not that I will pay for one.

I suspect the answer is sometimes "unreliably and with great difficulty".

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Anton543

11 years ago

With this thread in mind, what's a very good plugin to inform you of every new link pointed to your site? I know there is the incoming link feature in the dashboard, but that to me seems not very good. It doesn't always update and misses links. I know there are tools out there on external sites that you can make use of, but I think it will be good to have something inside the dashboard so its all there.

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