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buro9, this is a great example of a well-maintained forum, and as such I agree that you're doing the right thing by ignoring link removal requests. Unfortunate
by Matt_Cutts 12y ago
buro9, this is a great example of a well-maintained forum, and as such I agree that you're doing the right thing by ignoring link removal requests.
Unfortunately, if you look at wider area of forums as a whole, a very large fraction of them are unmaintained, unpatched, or otherwise not kept safe from drive-by spamming. There are entire forum spamming software packages that will register spam users for dozens of different forums in order to drop spammy links. You can even lease the spamming software by the month. :(
- buro9 12y agoThanks, and I agree. But... it doesn't resolve the problem that publishers who always fought spam, who stayed as far from the SEO battles as possible, and who have largely spam-free sites, are now subject to a constant and increasing flow of link removal requests as a consequence of Google's pushback against the merchants who did use the more spammy SEO tactics.
- liveoneggs 12y agoexcept when he is disavowed as all the removal emails say they will do. I've added rel="nofollow" as good-enough when trying to help out people throwing too-far of a net.
- buro9 12y agoAlso... what happens when, as a consequence of us ignoring requests, Google decide that a site with a high number of disavowed links is a spammy site? I figure already that you'll eventually consider that a valid signal, but I'm sure you could already check my site and that there must already be some disavowed links, yet you personally admit this is a well-maintained forum. There is a fear that we are being caught in the crossfire, and it's hard not to believe that quite a few of us are going to get hit by that crossfire.