Comments on: Doing Link Removal? Use This Flowchart to Quickly Evaluate Backlink Quality

By: Bob Meinke

Bob Meinke — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:01:06 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I also share my clients’ frustration whenever Google decides to move the goalposts without warning, especially now that they’ll inflict penalties based on factors outside a webmaster’s control.

These days pretty much everyone needs to keep a watch on their link profiles.

By: Google Sucks

Google Sucks — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:29:00 +0000

I think this is a great flow chart to simplyfy the process specially for those who are not too familiar with basic SEO. Many of those who’ve been penalized seem to be in a frenzy to remove ALL the links they have, it is heart-breaking watching them drive the knife deeper in the wound that Google inflected upon them. I say Google inflected because Google (through Matt Cutts) has been saying for years that external incoming links would not negatively affect websites because they have no control over them. The savvy SEOs did indeed suspected that Google would do (or is actively doing) something about it, even though they are saying they wouldn’t, simply because it is their most important signal in calculating PR. Now where does this leave people who believed in Google’s claims? and what evidence does Google or anyone else for that matter have to guarantee that those businesses are responsible for the link spam (although I personally think that most are). With this move many innocent businesses have suffered catastrophic losses that they may never recover from, and the most important thing that came of it is that google is now saying, without any doubt, that any one can sink or decimate a competitor by pointing a ton of useless links at their website and claim their position at the top of the SERPs, until someone else comes along and know them off of it… turning this into the Internet’s version of the wild wild west, and making the blackhatters giggle with delight at the new opportunities.

By: Adido

Adido — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:57:02 +0000

Thanks for this. Removal of bad links is so vital, making this massively useful!

By: Bob Meinke

Bob Meinke — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:41:02 +0000

In reply to Sha Menz.

Hey Sha,

Thanks for your response! I agree – one of the worst things you can do while pruning links is to remove links that are benefit you.

By: Isan

Isan — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:54:54 +0000

It’s great flow chart, which help to remove spamming links. Thanks for posting.

By: Sha Menz

Sha Menz — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:06:35 +0000

Hi Bob,

Really pleased to see that you have shared this. We’ve been more than a little concerned about the number of site owners who are jumping into link removal campaigns without real confidence in their knowledge of links they want to remove.

Your flowchart actually helps give non-professional SEOs the basic understanding needed to make the correct decision about link value and effect.

For those who still have some niggling doubts about whether they have gotten it all right, we’ve found the SEOgadget Cleanup & Contact Tool a useful double-check.

While we built our tool to make backlink removal campaigns easy to manage, we certainly don’t want anyone making mistakes and ending up removing links that are useful!

I’m off to add your post to “Helpful Resources” list.

Thanks again!

By: Bob Meinke

Bob Meinke — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:41:28 +0000

In reply to Kent. Kent - Thanks for the response. I'm glad you find it helpful!

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:38:12 +0000

Hi Bob, thanks for the flow chart, at least I know how to start a link removal plan! :)