MEC Global threatens use of disavow tool

From: Dan Hon <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Gentle Reminder:  Vodafone.co.uk Link Removal Request
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:56:39 +0000
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To: Vodafone Outreach <[email protected]>
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Hello,

I have reviewed the link. In my opinion it is innocuous. It is a blog post from over 10 years ago, where I am considering leaving Vodafone for Orange, where my friends were at the time, and when networks did not offer cross-network minutes.

I am not minded to remove a link that you have acknowledged was made in good faith.

I don’t have any incentive - other than you threatening to affect my organic pagerank - to remove the link, and I do not appreciate the threat.

On Dec 5, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Vodafone Outreach <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi there,

I hope this email finds you well.  I’ve contacted you twice previously to request the remove of links from your website to Vodafone.co.uk . I know you may have missed our earlier emails or may have been busy and unable to reply.

However I’d be very grateful if you could help me by removing the links. If not, we may need to include your website in a disavow request to Google. I’d like to avoid this as it could affect your website’s standing with Google and result in a reduction in its authority.

Below are the pages on your site which contain links to Vodafone.co.uk:

 danhon.com/ec/v3-archive-feb2001.html

Your help on this would be greatly appreciated and I hope to hear from you soon!

Best wishes,

MEC Outreach Team
[email protected]

Bass Warehouse4 Castle St, Castlefield, Manchester, United Kingdom
http://www.mecglobal.com
A GroupM Company

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Subject: Re: Vodafone.co.uk Link Removal Request
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From: Dan Hon <[email protected]>
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To: Vodafone Outreach <[email protected]>

Please cite me the section of Google's Webmaster Guidelines (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en)  that require the removal of good-faith links to your client’s homepage. Unless you believe that what you say is a good-faith link is instead “a trick to intended to improve search engine rankings” or you believe that my good-faith link is a spam link.

Unless I receive a satisfactory answer, I will be happy to contact Google and to inform them of the tactics you are using.

On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Vodafone Outreach <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I am contacting you on behalf of my client Vodafone.co.uk. I am trying to remove some links pointing to their website. While I understand that you have linked to them in good faith, I would really appreciate your help in the removal of the link(s) highlighted on the page(s) below to enable them to comply with Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. This is at the request of the marketing team at Vodafone.co.uk.

danhon.com/ec/v3-archive-feb2001.html

Can I ask that you remove as stated above?


Thanks in advance!

I hope to hear from you soon,

Best wishes,
MEC Outreach Team
[email protected]

1 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8NU, United Kingdom
http://www.mecglobal.com
A GroupM Company