Link removal... are you doing it?

[SteveGerencser]

Has anyone seen this http://trafficplanet.com/topic/2369-...e-seo-results/

Yup, old news and info from Dan is that some interesting things happened along the way.

[kgun]

Contrary to popular belief, I actually do know quite a bit about how things work and why.

Cryptical statement.

Please explain.

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[kgun]

TADA look what Bing released... will google follow??

goo.gl/JF1vT

These signals help us understand when you find links pointing to your content that you want to distance yourself from for any reason. You should not expect a dramatic change in your rankings as a result of using this tool, but the information shared does help Bing understand more clearly your intent around links pointing to your site.

Source: Disavow links you don’t trust & SEO Analyzer updates

Does that indicate that an inbound link from an external domain beyond your control can have negative value (on the SERPs) in Bing? If it is correct, a competitor can hurt your site in Bing by using some domains to manipulate your position. Or he can hire a webmaster in farawayland to do the job for you. I am highly sceptical, since it makes the internet super high way of scam wider.

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Actually, I think that Google announced it was going to be adding a disavow mechanism to GWMT beforehand. Bing just beat them to the punch at rolling it out.

Or was stupid enough to bite the bait

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[williamc]

Cryptical statement. Please explain.

Not cryptical at all, and it was fully explained, it was in reference to his image explanation of how a 403 works.

Does that indicate that an inbound link from an external domain beyond your control can have negative value (on the SERPs) in Bing?

kgun we have been saying for years that it can be, and is being, done. None of the engines really have a handle on it, many of you just wanted to stay in the blissful state where you could not see it happening.

I simply find it hillarious now that all the old naysayers are acting like this is shocking news that it is now known it can be done. Twasn't shocking in the least, they were all told long before. They were just refused to listen.

[kgun]

I want to share the email I got from removal request emails. It's hilarious!

From whome?

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Congealed Snake Oil gives out venomous links -- geddit? But now that other people are charging to remove bad links, I have even more incentive to get the site running at full speed!

You and everyone else are allowed to bombard my site www.redcarpetrank.com with snaky links and whatever insemantic links you want. But don't expect a reciprocal link

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[kgun]

kgun we have been saying for years that it can be, and is being, done. None of the engines really have a handle on it, many of you just wanted to stay in the blissful state where you could not see it happening.

Yes, and we have been discussing it for years without reaching an agreement regarding Google. We have not discussed it in relation to other search engines, even if there were a few general remarks in the well known thread:

Can inbound links really hurt you?

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[C0ldf1re]

... we have been saying for years that it can be, and is being, done. None of the engines really have a handle on it, many of you just wanted to stay in the blissful state where you could not see it happening.

I simply find it hillarious now that all the old naysayers are acting like this is shocking news that it is now known it can be done. Twasn't shocking in the least, they were all told long before. They were just refused to listen.

It is not so much (for some of us) that we refused to listen, but that we listened to Matt Cutts (the Google Spamfuhrer) instead. He said it could not be done, because otherwise you could poison a competitor's site. That made so much sense that we believed him. (Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!)

[FirstVector]

Yup, old news and info from Dan is that some interesting things happened along the way.

I would say a very old.

Is anybody else doing bad link removal?

I ask webmasters to remove some links.

Are any of the bad links being removed?

Yes, about 50 references (not so much).