NOT the way to ask for link removal

I received the similar email. Asking for removing their links but feels more like threatening to remove it. I just ignore unless the email is from Big G which i received once before due to copyrights.

Sending a request like this, trying to resemble a legal threat, and suggesting that I placed the links there of my own accord will get you nowhere. I'll simply ignore it. Or if you catch me in a real shitty mood I may even fire up XR or SB and throw a few hundred thousand more at you.

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veheme said:

That sounds like a good business plan (if payment is a must).

Put up a company, surround it with awesome but fake reviews -- get a lot of clients. They all get hit. Put up another link deletion company and earn money (AGAIN).

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Haha I wasn't getting at the business plan side of it but yes I suppose you could launch an unethical business off the back of it.

The point I was trying to make is if someone has dropped a link on my site off their own back, why should I have to spend 10 minutes cleaning up the mess they created.

Send me as many threats as you want, the bottom line is time is money - if you put the link their its your own fault and my time is not free.

However some people have approached me in such a way that I have just done it without questions

partymarty4870 said:

Sending a request like this, trying to resemble a legal threat, and suggesting that I placed the links there of my own accord will get you nowhere. I'll simply ignore it. Or if you catch me in a real shitty mood I may even fire up XR or SB and throw a few hundred thousand more at you.

But if they ask nicely, use lots of pleases and thankyou's I'll probably take the 2 or 3 minutes to help a stranger.

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Send them a reply:

"Unfortunately I failed to remove your links but I succeeded in sending 100K exact match do-follow Xrumer blast you way".

I generally remove links if the email reads like it is personal and written by a real human not by an arsehole.

cash202 said:

"Unfortunately I failed to remove your links but I succeeded in sending 100K exact match do-follow Xrumer blast you way".

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I did this to someone I didn't like in one of my niches, but it was more like 250k or so and I pinged them for about 48 hours.

Poor site disappeared like... forever, after Penguin.

Definitely the way to do it cash2002. Some of these people think they have been deputized by Google to go out and police the internet. For me, Google's bullshit has done nothing more than give E-mail spammers another reason to spam. I'm still getting link removal requests on sites that have ZERO outbound links to any external sites. Leave it to Google to waste a lot of webmaster's time. I personally hope someone sues Google for lost time and bandwidth. Since Google recommended the practice, and Matt Cutts said that if webmasters try to charge for removing links to let Google know, this leaves Google responsible for the lost time webmasters have in fielding such stupid requests. Since Google does not want webmasters to charge for their time to remove links, Google should get off its bloated wallet and dish out some money for wasting everyone's time (including mine). Make this a class action lawsuit, and I'll definitely contribute to the cause. The internet was designed as a web of websites linking to each other. Google wants to re-write the foundation of the web so that people have no choice but to go to Google and search. Fuck this shit. It's pretty damn obvious Google is trying to squeeze webmasters for everything they can.