Removing links
 

I had an email from a mainstream website owner asking me to remove his link from my site which he purchased just under a year ago because he said it has made his site go way down in the google ranks. He said he was removing all links to his site now. Is this something new thats happening ?

hahaha so not just me I thought the guy had gone loopy or something

Links to your site are bad now?

No. Some webmasters get links to their site and nothing else. Then , when they get punished for infrequent updates, stale content, high bouce rate.. all they can think of is: "It has to be the backlinks, that's all I did."

Go ahead and let those people fail. More money for the rest of us.

~Ray

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We get so many emails from people wanting us to contact our clients and make them remove links, it is not even funny.

What is funny is that crappy links have always been just that, crappy links. Why did you get them in the first place?

I never got any links. He purchased a link from me they were embeded into text and were relevent to his site. First time anybody has asked me to remove a paid link.

yep this shit just got real

im removing all links today - internal! external! i dont give a fuck everything is coming down!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :thumbsup

This whole websites linking to websites thing has gotten way out of hand, and it's about time ALL links were removed from ALL sites :2 cents:

he is just an idiot

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Is Penguin a Penalty?

No, neither Penguin nor Panda are manual penalties, Cutts said. He explained that Penguin was designed to tackle ?the stuff in the middle;? between fantastic, high quality content and spam. Panda was all about spam, but the need for Penguin arose from this middle ground.

?It does demote web results, but it?s an algorithmic change, not a penalty. It?s yet another signal among over 200 signals we look at,? he said.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article...unce-Rate-More

Yep that worked very well indeed It certainly knocked all the spam crappy sites up to the top of google search, well done google " clap fucking clap"

we can tell for sure if removing links help or not only after new penguin data / algorithm refresh.

Until then it's just pure guessing

Tell him to get more quality links, mentions on twitter and other social platforms, traffic etc.

Links pulled?

Headache

Google has been emailing webmasters warning them about apparent non natural links.

:thumbsup :2 cents: :pimp

Wuttafak? :helpme
Rumour or reality? Links, proof, more details please Good Rowan! :2 cents: :pimp

Not sure about e-mailing, but I've seen a lot of people cry their eyes out on forums, about receiving a notice of "unnatural links detected" in their GWT account.

Yeah, that's what I meant, a notice within the GWT system. Not specifically an email (which would be spam?)

So this would be a very good way to take sites out of top google rankings which you dont like :winkwink: