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Hmm, someone just emailed me with a link removal request because google is "penalizing" them for slackertalk linking to their site. Interesting. -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Aug 22 '13, 10:42

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Are they saying that Google thinks it was linked here specifically to manipulate the page rank? -- nm - mara Aug 22, 10:46 23
- And I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but the switch from google ads to amazon 4 years ago was spurred on by basically the same email ... - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:52
- When you are threatened with THE PENALIZER, you don't ask questions -- nm - con_carne Aug 22, 10:48
- kinda (email inside) - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:47 8
  - As an fyi, do not contact them. There are scams along these lines. - David Aug 22, 11:09 1
    - Thx. Responding to emails is not my forté, so that won't be an issue. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 11:10
  - Can you respond to them like this: - Jim Aug 22, 10:50 2
    - I assume that they have google ads on their site - if that's the case, ST could actually be a detriment to their revenue stream. Google is fickle. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 11:09
    - right. i would. -- nm - Andie Aug 22, 11:08
  - Plus we're low-quality! Shoot. -- nm - mara Aug 22, 10:49 2
    - How dare they call us that! Berry lets DoS their ass -- nm - decline Aug 22, 10:50 1
      - seriously, if this means we have the power to take down sites we don't like, I'll start drawing up a list. -- nm - Max Aug 22, 10:56
- Yes and it is because there are three exact copies of ST. That makes it look fake. -- nm - David Aug 22, 10:47 11
  - I'll add the nofollow & set canonicalized links per this ... -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:50 3
    - now you're just making up words....nm - x Aug 22, 11:09
    - Yeah, I was going to suggest nofollow as the easiest solution to this. -- nm - spamlet Aug 22, 11:07 1
      - Nofollow should fix the SEO garbage, canonical should fix the search results (and hopefully nuke much of the cruft) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 11:08
  - More than three. At least five, counting the "www". But they all have robots.txt that disables indexing ... -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:48 6
    - We had an SEO tell us that there were over 50k links to HWDYK from ST. -- nm - David Aug 22, 11:06 3
      - But seriously, I'll add nofollow to the sidebar as well -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 11:06
      - you need an SEO to tell you that? -- nm - znufrii Aug 22, 11:06
      - "Is that good or bad?" -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 11:06
    - suuuuuurrre they do. we're all just pawns in your shifty little game, aren't we?....nm - x Aug 22, 10:50 1
      - We're all part of the Bery syndicate, and everyone gets a share. -- nm - Inigo Aug 22, 11:01
I think I'll add a "nofollow" to all the external links from posts -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:43
Quick pos the link!! -- nm - decline Aug 22, 10:43 1
- /s/pos/post/g -- nm - decline Aug 22, 10:43
So, what link? :) -- nm - Jim Aug 22, 10:43
Ooh, ooh! Was I the linker? -- nm - nubby Aug 22, 10:42 7
- Ender and Andie were mentioned in the email -- nm - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:43 6
  - i feel like such a rebel. -- nm - Andie Aug 22, 11:10
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    - It's because of this post -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 22, 10:45 [Backboard] 3
      - meh. ancient history. - zork Aug 22, 10:48 2
        
        You clicked it? Kind of a dick move. I copied and pasted the URL. -- nm - mara Aug 22, 10:50 1
        
        I can see the date of the post without clicking that URL - zork Aug 22, 10:54

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