Reno - 8:22 pm on Aug 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

Webmaster Tools suggestion to Google:

Have an option in GWT so a siteowner/webmaster can list ALL the incoming links to the TLD, and next to each listing, put a checkbox. At the top label the column of checkboxes "Check to have googlebot ignore these links".

The siteowner could review the list and check all links that were not requested / not wanted, then click "Submit".

Google would then understand that these links may be part of a spam attack, and the siteowner would not be penalized. (Or, if there was already a penalty in place, a reconsideration could be generated).

There's little or nothing a siteowner can do to defend against this sort of thing, so with Google's help, we'd at least have some recourse.

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