It appears that SEO Inc. (www.seoinc.com - dare I link to them) is sending out link removal requests.A Cre8asite Forum thread discusses it and I also received the request. A two-year old web developer at SEO Inc, prior to that, a bartender, has emailed me that I need to remove a link to SEO Inc from 2005. The email reads:I am [redacted] with www.seoinc.com. I wanted to thank you for linking to our site from http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001880.html . However, it has come to our attention that this link may have been acquired against Googles Webmaster Guidelines. It is important for us to bring our site into compliance. Could you please remove our link from this page and any other page on your site.Kim Krause Berg received a similar request, but she was nicer, she was going to remove it:
Deal is, Chuck Finley said Kim should remove it. Why? "If you dont, theyll do it with the disavow tool and that could affect the site."Seriously?! Go ahead, use the disavow. I am not removing a link to your site because the link was relevant to the story.Even worse, you do not email popular SEO blogs or forums asking them to remove links to your site. That will back fire and inform the world that you obviously have some sort of link penalty and an SEO company with a link penalty is not the best SEO company. Unless of course, you are stubborn and stupid. Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.
Update: I spoke with the CEO of SEO Inc and he explained the context. In short, they were going through their link profile and assigned the task to one of the newer people in the company after a few weeks of doing this job himself. That person didnt do his research and sent the link removal request to sites he should not have (not saying I dont deserve to receive it). The reason I wrote this story was not to laugh at how dumb a specific person is. Heck, I probably deserve the request.The reason I wrote this story was because there is now so much fear over who links to who that it is sickening. Fear someone might use the disavow tool against me? Fear I have some bad links pointing to my site. Fear I link to someone without using the nofollow. Look at where we have come, just look.
Thats Stupidity. Is it confirmed that guy Kirk Evans works at SEOInc? If yes, he must be drunked on that same bartenders table where he used to serve.
You outed these guys cause theyre request was a bit random, its a bit hypocritical when you sell site-wide sponsored links, you must have gotten similar requests from those guys lately as three of them are no-follow.
My favorite part is this (from their front page): "For over 17 years Search Engine Optimization Inc. has been one of the leading professional search engine optimization and social media marketing firms in the world". So ... Theyve been doing SEO and Social Media since 1996? OK.
Beware links from SEO Roundtable! You could one day need to remove them and THEN where will you be? At the mercy of Barry Schwartz! Thats where.
Its frustrating that Google provides no insight in to which mindset or approach is best when it comes to backlinks. The folks I know who buy backlinks continue to do so because they still get top rankings because of it. I think Google might actually crank down what they not only accept but what they punish for. For last while those two aspects never used together the way they should be.
Google Update March In UK This Weekend? Search Heating Up For Spring http://www.seo-hop.com/google-update-march-in-uk-this-weekend-search-heating-up-for-spring Barry have you heard anything? Or is this just google data centers being delayed?
Doing what youre told and not doing it professionally. Nobody likes to be accused of something they didnt do. Links from posts made in 2005 are a threat? Why not 1999? Why not go after any site that ever linked to you that you *think* linked to you by some sort of "bad" technique.
Thats what SEO Inc gets for hiring a "two-year old web developer." :) I am still wondering what bar would have hired a toddler as a bartender, though. Thanks for my best chuckle so far this morning. :)
How do you know that SEO Inc are responsible for the link building? I say this because a large part of my job is organising these removal requests and clean-up jobs on huge websites. Not ones Bronco has arranged themselves, but tidying up other peoples historical mess basically.
Remember, they are contacting probably hundreds or thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of websites. If they contact websites where it is a paid link, getting them to remove it is preferable for both parties rather than opting for the disavow tool. Ive heard that some networks have been caught via use of the disavow tool - you are meant to explain why you want to disavow each link/domain. So really they are trying to avoid toasting other peoples websites - not threaten them.
Also @rustybrick:disqus you sell links in the Sidebar of this site? If I was looking at a site and it was penalised.. Id consider asking you nicely to take it down :)
The reference to Kirks previous employment (bartender) seems more of a personal slight against him then anything of any real importance. Im not sure how outing him or SEO Inc. really matters. Everybody is sending/getting these stupid link removal requests.
I agree with those who say that just because SEO Inc is requesting the takedowns, doesnt mean they were the ones who acquired the links in the first place. So, theres no reason to assume that they arent a good SEO company. In regards to asking for takedowns, hey, when a site is in the deep depths of penalty despair, sometimes desperate measures need to be taken. Decisions have to be made, and if a site has thousands of links, its not easy to cull the good from the bad.
Why are people jumping all over you Barry? You pointed to a discussion I started because I was asked to remove a link to an article about the uproar over "booth babes" at SEO conferences. My blog post was from 2005 and the link was a simple link to an article that caught my eye on a topic that was interesting to write about. The link wasnt hurting anybody, nor could I even get to it, as its buried deep in my MySQL. The layout of the blog at that time no longer exists. What threw me is why ANY SEO company is going after links from 8 year old web pages. Google has grabbed SEOs by the throat and now suddenly any link is a potential enemy. I think this is wrong. My links stay.
Excellent post, excellent point of view. Why live in fear? If you know you did naughty, fine. If you were doing your job, etc. and you havent engaged purposefully in any schemes around linking, move on. Thanks Barry.
Not to mention the fact that in many cases site owners want to have a say in what is and isnt removed. When people are sitting on the edge of a precipice watching their livelihood disappear down a yawning chasm it isnt always easy to bring reason back into the equation.
Lol I think in the future we will see backlinks extortion, people will raise blog-networks to link to big companies so they could charge money to take off the link like in the web-directories lol.
That request seemed courteous enough, and at least they were taking the time to make the request rather than going straight for the disavow tool. Outing this guy & his employer seems rather petulant to me, and a far more depressing example of what weve descended to.
This techniques can be applied only for some blogging purposes or guess blogging. You have to make some link request in order to communicate the webmaster of a certain domain owner and have a permission to post your link on it.
There are some thoughts that they could be part of negative or sabotage SEO campaigns by attempting to removing valuable competitors links. Or is this geting a little bit conspiracy theory-ish?
This is such charging time for responding to all the link removal request. The Bloggers problem is that if the site appears frequently in disavow requests the it could be penalized,
It would be hazardous that if anyone of the follow link with be automatically remove with in the time frame they decide so stop the process like this, be sincerely explain why you cancelling such a method to be promoted time to time. like the style that actually mathers the most.
What do you have against bartenders becoming web developers? Do you think being a developer or seo is a privilege of those who were guided through computer science from the child years never having to think for themselves? Are you actually against people who make a point of becoming someone else and do that? Way to go, bro.
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