Interesting developments in the saga of the infographics.
While out of town on business I received this very polite note:
Subject: Request for link removal – ForensicPsychology.net
Good evening Webmaster,
We were notified that our site, ForensicPsychology.net has come under review by Google for some link building practices from the past. We are contacting you in that context.
We are making major changes to the site and undertaking efforts to build great content that we hope people will naturally link to. However, in the interim period, we are contacting people who have linked to us in the past where there’s even a remote possibility that Google could view the link as “over optimized”.
We have also removed a lot of our infographics and some of our other content. So you might be linking to a 404’ed page.
As such, we would like to respectfully request that you remove all links to our site including the link on ceoln.wordpress.com/2012/06/19
We appreciate your past efforts to link to us, and as the new owners of this site, we are excited to unveil our upgraded site and content very soon, and would like to be able to keep in touch with you as that happens.
If you would be so kind as to respond and let us know if you can take the above requested actions, we would appreciate it. Apologies if you have received this email multiple times as we are being very aggressive in this, and thanks again for your patience.Thank you
Cristina Roberston
I thought that was somewhat intriguing, but I was busy and didn’t do anything about it right away, and not long after there appeared this reminder:
Subject: Link Removal Request Reminder – ForensicPsychology.net
Dear Webmaster,
I’m not sure if you have responded, I tried searching for your response in my spam box, but couldn’t find it. Sorry if you have already. We were notified that our site, ForensicPsychology.net has come under review by Google for some link building practices from the past. We are contacting you in that context.
We are making major changes to the site and undertaking efforts to build great content that we hope people will naturally link to. However, in the interim period, we are contacting people who have linked to us in the past where there’s even a remote possibility that Google could view the link or the anchor text as “overly optimized”.
As such, we would like to respectfully request that you remove all links to our site including the link on ceoln.wordpress.com/2012/06/19
We appreciate your past efforts to link to us, and as the new owners of this site, we are excited to unveil our upgraded site and content very soon, and would like to be able to keep in touch with you as that happens.
If you would be so kind as to respond and let us know if you can take the above requested actions, we would appreciate it. Apologies if you have received this email multiple times as we are being very aggressive in this, and thanks again for your patience.
I’ve just now gone and removed the link to Forensic Psychology dot net from that page (along with an update pointing to this page), ’cause I am a Nice Guy. I notice that it is no longer the case that Criminal Justice Degree dot net says that it is copyright by Forensic Psychology dot net. On the other hand, the two sites still look veeeery similar and generic and Infographic in style, and one still wonders just what the heck might be going on.
And amusingly I also just received this, on my Second Life self’s email account:
Subject: Infographic about Nintendo’s Wild Success
Hey Dale,
I recently developed another infographic that could be a good fit for your site. I just wanted to reach out and share. It highlights and illustrates how Nintendo became the king of video games and the numbers behind their success.
You can check it out here:
Title: Nintendo MBA
Graphic: http://www.mbaonline.com/nintendo/Let me know what you think, I would love for you to publish it if you find it suitable for your site.
Thank you,
Chloe
chloecarter180@gmail.com | MBAOnline.com
Maybe I should suggest that Chloe have a word with Cristina about the dangers of… whatever it is that they are doing.
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