How do you remove links TO your site?
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Lots of old links to our wine rack store site from many years ago, how do I get these removed? block them? Not sure if Penguin got us because of these....
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What kind of links are they? Do they contain spammy, non-related anchor text? If they are simply old links that don't exist any more or are from sites that have been devalued you should not worry too much about removing them. Google simply devalues the link juice running through them to your site.
It is true many sites have been devalued from Penguin, but it simply means that these sites don't pass any value onto your site - while they also do not harm your site unless they are of a bad or negative nature.
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unfortunately this is the only way I'm aware of too, lots of legwork for little results...oh well
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A lot of people have been asking this question recently.
At the moment the only way to do it is to email the webmaster and ask them to remove the link.
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