Link Building

Types of Link Removal Requests and Where are We Heading?

A critique of link-removal pressure, nofollow fear, and the way disavow-era workflows changed web linking behavior.

SEOSmarty4 min readMar 28, 2025

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The article frames removal and disavow requests as a response to search-engine pressure.

It breaks the requests into polite change requests, polite nofollow requests, removal requests, disavow threats, and bogus DMCA notices.

This test post gives the blog an opinionated editorial angle.

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