Link removal request received from a forum spammer<\/p><\/div>\n

We generally don’t hold grudges. The IP of the forum spammer, mentioned in that link, traces back to an ISP in Pakistan. So my assumption is the company requesting the link removal either hired this person, or hired an SEO agency that used this person in the hope of artificially inflating their rank. Many people, us included, have fallen foul of so called ‘SEO Agencies’ offering supposed white hat techniques. But this particular forum spammer registered just 1 year ago back in April 2012. \u00a0This was well into evolved Panda and Penguin territory so there’s really no excuse to be\u00a0practicing\u00a0such poor link building techniques.<\/p>\n

I feel our offer is fair. It takes time to remove these spammy links but more importantly, we’ve spent a countless amount of time trying to keep our forum clean. Let’s see if they take us up on our generous offer. Updates will be posted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We maintain a forum at http:\/\/forum.webhostingbuzz.com to serve our customers, to facilitate to discussion and to use as an occasional announcement platform. Of late, it has been largely redundant due to our updated status platform and our increasingly popular Facebook, Twitter and Google+ channels. But the forum generally sits there, minding it’s own business and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n