Other peoples sites penalized by Google is causing me headaches.

So here it goes basically. Many months ago and even years, to get your website ranked well it involved building backlinks. This caused a lot of spamming which meant a lot of work was involved in aiming to remove the spam on a daily basis, the only issue is, it's impossible to remove all spam as some of it gets through even after being audited by a human.

So the time and money wasted spending removing the spam was costly, but now many websites have been hit do to this spam and therefore the new thing that is costing wasted time and money is the spammings emailing you asking to remove their own spam as they have been penalised.

To me, it seems a bit of a joke that they have the nerve to spam and aim to damage your website/business only for them to then want you to remove it all at a later date.

The worst has been today where I have received a letter asking me to remove links from my website that they have not even allowed on it, if not removed, they will take legal action. Truthfully where there link is located, I can guarantee that a link exchange was made some years ago between that site and I. So therefore they either placed the link on my site there self or paid a SEO company to do it.

Why lie, why can't they just say the truth and say something like "I'm sorry that I placed links on your site a while back, due to Google changing the way they do things, can you please now remove these links, the links are located here".

I'm finding most people are saying that they didn't have any knowledge of their links being placed on my website. I'm finding most of these are coming from my Articles website where their link is in the BIO or my forums where the link is in the signature left after each post. Now truthfully probably 99% of people only leave links in the BIO of articles or signatures if they are doing it themselves or has paid someone to do it in the past.

This is quite annoying as it's like I had issues removing the spam when it was coming, but now I'm having more issues removing links from spam and also what I would call not even spam just because they have been penalised.

Anyway, time to remove this persons link before his so called legal action lol. I should send him a letter saying I am aiming to take legal action for spamming my site many months ago.

Oh well. My 2 cents worth.

 

At least, maybe from know on, thanks to google of course, you won't get spammed any more.
Indeed it's causing big headaches.

 

Yes, that is one good thing as it will cut down spam, but it will not stop spam I don't think.

 

its hard to stop spamm and pirated sites...

 

It's not that hard to drop bad links. I can drop 500k in a week without even trying hard.