| Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Will.Spencer | 7/16/12 7:49 PM | How have you been handling requests for processing fees in response to your link removal requests? Some webmasters are now requesting processing fees from $20 to $500 to remove links from their web sites. I don't like paying those fees, as I did no |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | beussery | 7/16/12 7:58 PM | Will Spencer, If you didn't place links that means they are probably natural and there should be no need to remove them? -Brian |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | StevieD_Web | 7/16/12 8:17 PM | I do hope you told the dude requesting the $500 to hurt himself |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Will.Spencer | 7/16/12 9:09 PM | If I had placed the links, I wouldn't need to ask anyone to remove them, I would just login and remove them myself. Link removal requests are for when you didn't place the link, but the link might look "suspicious" or "low quality" to Google. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Will.Spencer | 7/16/12 9:11 PM | As I want to get the penalty to this web site removed, that's not really an option. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | StevieD_Web | 7/16/12 11:05 PM | $500 to remove the link? How much did it cost to purchase the link? |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Will.Spencer | 7/17/12 6:52 AM | I obviously didn't purchase the link. I am guessing that if you were purchasing links, removal would be included at no extra cost as part of the service. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Chris Hunt | 7/17/12 7:20 AM | Yeah, because people operating in the link selling business are known for their decency and high business ethics. Of course, if there were, perchance, a few bad apples amongst the serried ranks of upstanding link sellers, they might see it as an oppo |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | KORPG Kevin | 7/17/12 7:24 AM | So let's say this is (or will soon be) happening.Then your best option would be to never pay to remove a link - lest you get on the "We've got a life one here!" list. In time G will devalue all the links from the link directory and you'll not need to |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Chris Hunt | 7/17/12 7:48 AM | That's what I reckon, KORPGKevin. But then I'm not getting messages from Google saying "remove these links or suffer a penalty." If I were, I might have to do otherwise. I'm just glad I'm not in that situation myself. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Geminineil | 7/17/12 7:49 AM | The reality is that anyone who runs a directory could probably electronically spider this forum and get urls and add those to their directory knowing that it would be VERY likely to get paying customers who at the moment have little option but to pay |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Will.Spencer | 7/17/12 9:23 AM | Exactly. And doing nothing isn't an option for most of us. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | webado | 7/17/12 10:33 AM | Only if said non-customers are also stupid which they might well be.Or if they've already engaged in buying links and are not sure just where they've done it. Which does not cancel the stupidity factor anyway, in fact it compounds it. If you haven't |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Geminineil | 7/17/12 10:48 AM | Webado You seem to have quite a simplistic view on this.. "Only if said non-customers are also stupid which they might well be." The FACT is that there are several on this forum that conclude that the ONLY reason to get an 'unnatural links' message |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | KORPG Kevin | 7/17/12 10:52 AM | Option 5: Address those things you can control. Go the other direction. Focus on making your site and the content contained therein better each and every day. Build a better backlink profile by better content offerings, thereby improving the overall |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Geminineil | 7/17/12 11:00 AM | I like option 5 but wonder how long it could take... "how long is a piece of string" I hear you say.. :) (obviously depending on make-up of the 'link-profile') |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | webado | 7/17/12 11:07 AM | Option 5 Kevin forgot to stress does not involve building links as such - only building content which will attract good links naturally. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | webado | 7/17/12 11:10 AM | And actually Option 5 is not an option, it's the main MO you should adopt. |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Geminineil | 7/17/12 11:11 AM | scrolling through WMT I found it an eye-opener to see who has been linking to my website that I didn't know about.... (in a positive way) - and a swift reminder to check backlinks to see how good the content is at generating links... |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | KORPG Kevin | 7/17/12 11:14 AM | Correct on both points.Option 5 isn't just an option, it's the norm and should be seen as the standard operating procedure and goal.Additionally, the links generated from practicing Option 5 aren't build by the website owner, they're created naturall |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | webado | 7/17/12 11:20 AM | You call it simplistic, I call it simple, as in uncomplicated and straight forward, no nonsense. I wish all life's decisions would be that simple ;) |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | zihara | 7/17/12 12:05 PM | "Regardless of how a link profile has evolved..." Yeah, right: evolved. People pushed that rope and the rope has turned around and hung them, like it does when folks substitute any kind of shortcut for intrinsic quality. Link profile evolution most l |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Geminineil | 7/17/12 12:33 PM | you are missing the point... use another word in place of 'evolved' - created - manipulated - it actually doesn't matter - people are coming here for help and don't need chastising the whole time... imho as in "perhaps Penguin is just the hand of Cr |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | Lysis | 7/17/12 12:45 PM | You're assuming that Google is counting new links. All Google has to do is look at history prior to actually coming out with Penguin, and they will find genuine spam. What are the chances that some competitor spammed blog comments in 2011? Slim to no |
| Re: Processing Fees for Link Removal Requests | URLJet | 7/17/12 1:14 PM | That hardly seems like a valid option as it's changed the game...and from what I'm reading but experiencing...It would seem it tilted it in favor of the junk sites. |
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