Request:change link and title email

Someone made a request to have it's link and title change and right when I was to comply, I had to double check on the ownership email address that it use when it submitted the link.

Person who is making a request does not match email, so I emailed it back saying that to provide me the same email address that was use during the submission.

Twice within this week from two different people...

Never know it could be the competitor making the changes you know.. just a precautionary.

The email.

To Whom It May Concern:The SiteTitle site will be changing its domain name from www.SiteTitle1.com to www.SiteTitle2.com in the coming months. Your site contains an in-link to the www.SiteTitle1.com URL and we would greatly appreciate it if you could change that in-link to www.SiteTitle2.com. Specifically, the in-link is located under the following heading âSite Title1 . If you would like a complete list of those links within your site in which the necessary changes need be made, please feel free to contact me anytime and I'll certainly forward that to you. If you could make this change and send me an email back when it has been done that would be great. Thanks!~Name person(000) 123-4567

 

You are 100% correct and it’s good to know that webmasters take steps to check before making any changes.
I received an email last year asking me to remove his listings, I did and I got an email accusing me of removing a customer’s link.

It was a good job that I still had the email requesting is was to be removed, turns out it wasn’t his listing. I refunded the submitting and give him a free listings, i have now learned to check first.

Thanks Brian

 

When someone sends a request as such, the first thing you should do is compare emails, not the last thing you do.

 

absolutely right, i wouldnt make any changes unless its from exact same address as submitted before.

You could go further and ask them to verify site ownership (upload a file or image) in case they are really unable to provide the email address. (for example if a SEO consultant had submitted their using his own email and now the actual owner wants to change the title)

 

I normally request the person shows proof of submission with a paypal invoice unless a redirect exists between the old domain and the new domain. I have had many fraud attempts.

 

Ha, I had exactly the same. They wanted me to change the name but I preferred to remove the link.