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LinkDelete "forces" me to continue on cleaning links up

by michaelra
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So my blog used to get 3,000-ish unique visitors a day from Google years ago but it's been going down to about 300-ish a day nowadays (ever since Google released Penguin)

I never got any spam message from Google Webmaster Tools but I thought there could be toxic links so I tried LinkDelete.com for a month (a year ago or something). After cleaning up, nothing has changed up til today

New Penguin refresh, nothing has changed as well. They asked me how my blog goes after the refresh. Upon hearing nothing is changed, they suggest me to keep on cleaning links.

I'm a bit reluctant because I'm sure this happened because my backlinks lost their rankings, which made most of my posts went down in rankings.

What do you guys think? Should I continue using them and clean up my links?
#cleaning #continue #forces #linkdelete #links
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by michaelra View Post

    Upon hearing nothing is changed, they suggest me to keep on cleaning links.
    Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, expecting a different result.

    Paul
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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      With each link you remove you remove a bit of link juice as well, so while cleaning up you're aim should be to build new links with a long term vision in mind (eg not having to remove them again).
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelra
    Yeah. I've rejected their offer just now. Seeing how there will always be new links (toxic or good ones) pointing to my posts, cleaning up links will take forever - a never ending story
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    How do you know these link delete services aren't blasting your domains with junk links to keep you as a client (forever...)?

    IMO, your messing with fire playing around with those types of services.
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    • Profile picture of the author danparks
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      How do you know these link delete services aren't blasting your domains with junk links to keep you as a client (forever...)?
      My thought exactly. I won't badmouth the service the OP mentioned, because I don't know anything about it. But in general, it seems like a very simple (and tempting) thing for a link removal service to do. Just occasionally spam a bunch of bad links to a client's site, and then the service goes on and on and on...
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by danparks View Post

        My thought exactly. I won't badmouth the service the OP mentioned, because I don't know anything about it. But in general, it seems like a very simple (and tempting) thing for a link removal service to do. Just occasionally spam a bunch of bad links to a client's site, and then the service goes on and on and on...
        Yea, it's not difficult to do the math, $5 link blast, $100 a month cleanup. Looks too easy to game.

        I'm not pointing fingers, just saying I would never trust a service like that.
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