The latest Google penalty comes as a bit of a good surprise - Google are penalising websites with intrusive interstitials: It’s no secret Google are constantly updating their algorithms to accommodate for users and give them the best experience possible. After all, the sole purpose of...
Continue ReadingMost of us know the risks involved with buying links, automating link building through spammy tools and using the likes of Fiverr.com for link building. It can often be looked at by webmasters as a cost effective link building strategy, and if I’m honest, it can work great for a couple of months. It’s not exactly a long-terms strategy though.
Whilst working on a recent Google Penalty Removal project, I found that some webmasters have been trying to squeeze every last penny out of their websites by demanding payment for link removals. Here’s one of the replies I had from a webmaster asking for $100…
Thank you for contacting us. Since the software we are running does not allow to simply search for the link the search has to be done manually. Do to the amount of time this takes we charge $100 per link removal. Please make a paypal payment to XXXX@XXXX.com and your link will be removed within 24 hours. Best Regards
We actually sent them a full list of the exact link locations on their website (http://www.poetic-dictionary.com/), so I’m not sure about what manual work needs to be done here. We have had a few directories come back to us in particular; some of them only asked for a small amount of around $10, which we accepted when there was genuinely some time involved on their part.