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Threatened after blacklist removal request

by twilightofidols
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I've been doing some link clean up on a site that was algorithmically penalized last year by Penguin 2.0.

I come across the site on a spam blacklist for an anti-spam plugin.

I decided to e-mail the administrator to ask to be removed from this blacklist as of course this looks bad from a reputation standpoint.

Here was the response,

"It's ok, XXXX..com removed from our database and scheduled for removal in Google index,
Thank you for contacting us!"

I'm wondering how best to approach this site after receiving this e-mail. This sounds like a thinly veiled threat that this individual plans to report the site to Google for manual action.

I've been doing some outreach with other webmasters to build some quality links to the site while removing anything that could've triggered the penalty now I'm wondering if it's even worthwhile.

What's your take guys? Should I be worried about this?

EDIT: Maybe he meant the page the website was listed on in the blacklist is scheduled for removal. (The developers of this plugin are foreign). I just don't know how to read it LOL. You can never be too paranoid in today's world of search.
#blacklist #removal #request #threatened
  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by twilightofidols View Post

    EDIT: Maybe he meant the page the website was listed on in the blacklist is scheduled for removal.
    Yeah, that's my take on it too. Maybe the developer was trying to say that if the blacklist position was showing in Google search it'd take Google's index update to remove it from there.

    Listings can happen for a number of reasons, and seasoned blacklist operators don't usually seem to assume guilt based on just the fact that a site was listed.

    I've had to remove couple of mail servers from blacklists, and usually the replies are terse and not very descriptive. Something like "Message received, removal scheduled". Never had any problem with any of these services, though.
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

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    • Profile picture of the author dotslash
      EDIT: Maybe he meant the page the website was listed on in the blacklist is scheduled for removal.
      I'd agree, this is probably what they meant. It is what makes sense in that context. They have no control over what appears in Google's index anyway. I wouldn't worry.
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  • Profile picture of the author strategic seo services
    [QUOTE
    EDIT: Maybe he meant the page the website was listed on in the blacklist is scheduled for removal. (The developers of this plugin are foreign). I just don't know how to read it LOL. You can never be too paranoid in today's world of search.[/QUOTE]

    I think that this is what he meant. There isn't really a way for him to remove your site from the Google index (unless he were to gain access to your Webmaster Tools account and submit a link removal request). Since he is a foreigner, he hasn't mastered the language yet, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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