How to go about removing bad/irrelevent links?
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We have been made aware of a series of irrelevant links on some rather dodgy sites.
- http://www.designerdogstop.com/level-static/http://www.bestfirepits.net/some-of-the-best-vacations-for-families/2010/05/05/
- http://whatcigarsdoismoke.com/cigar-lighters/cigarette-cigar-2/
- http://dollfuss.org/build-bear-hawaii/
Absolute rubbish im sure you will agree. These links must surely be causing our link profile some damage.
They are currently wordpress sites with no means of contacting the authors. What ways and means are there of removing these negative pages and links?
Cheers all, any help appreciated.
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Thanks Daniel,
Lots of additional features & improvements still in the works - updates @rmoov
Sha
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Nice! Checking it out right now. Good luck with the project ! ~^DH
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Hi Tim,
We just opened free Beta during this last weekend on a link removal management service that we developed.
The free trial will allow you to run a campaign including the domains you mentioned in your post.
The tool allows you to drop in a list of URLs, pull contact information from ICANN (the whois data mentioned above) for each of the domains, customize emails, send follow-ups, receive notification of cleanups from webmasters etc.
Hope it helps,
Sha
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There's no quick route for SEO. Work slow, and do your work properly. I think that ipositions' suggesting is by far the best one - look-up contact details, contact them and request to remove the link. Patience helps
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I do agree that not spending too much time is critical, as it can become hugely time consuming and inefficient. But getting rid of a few is also a help.
Being so time consuming was the main reason in my initial post, to see if there were any quicker options available to web masters, e.g. sending google a list of links that you wish for it to disregard due to not being generated by yourself... unlikely I know... :o(
Thanks for the response.
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Have you looked for the email address of the webmaster using whois.net? That's the first thing we do when contact details are not provided on the site.
I've seen a lot of people here going on about removing bad links and where possible I agree that it should be done. However a line must be drawn where getting a link removed becomes too time consuming to be worth the effort. That time would be better spent creating content, reaching out to popular relevant blogs etc and create enough good links that offset the bad ones.
Hope this helps
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