Directory Listing without Permission... Was your company listed here also likes ours?
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We just found a backlink for our site from a brand spanking new, week-old directory site. We did not create this, so aside from submitting a request to remove it through their contact form (which we already did), do you have any other tips to get this removed beside submitting a disavow request.
Also, check to make sure your company isn't listed as well without your permission (not providing a functioning link back for them, but enter in their domain to check it out.
Let me know your thoughts. - Patrick
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Thanks and assumed that was the case, Chris. Actually, I emailed them from their contact form, then saw a direct email link on that Contact page, so I emailed Tarek as well. He replied by email and also then called our office to apologize for the inconvenience and let us know the link was removed and we have confirmed this.
Now, if every other webmaster would respond this quickly and politely, it would make our jobs a LOT less frustrating. Thanks for responding Kevin and Oren! - Patrick
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I agree Chris. There's a certain amount of spam links that you acquire just for having a decent webpage. I've stopped stressing about all of the Alexa scraper sites and similar, as I realize that they are (unfortunately) part of a natural link profile. Sites that aren't great but aren't overtly bad shouldn't be an issue, at least from my experience.
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Patrick,
I feel quite sure that Google's intent for Penguin wasn't that webmasters have to spend their time defending against sites like that. I also feel fairly positive that Google is able to identify sites like that and nullify their influence on ranking and link profiles. No doubt, as well, that disavowing them won't hurt, but personally, I don't give them much thought.
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Unfortunately except for manually asking/submitting a disavow request not much else to do. It's part of our checklist now to check for spammy links on a regular basis for clients.
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Follow up: I found the directory site owner/managers, so I sent requests to them as well for the removal which is http://www.hubac.com/contact/
Any other ideas here Moz members?
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