nippi - 7:27 am on Feb 15, 2013 (gmt 0)

I am getting a lot of link modification requests lately.

"we have been penalised for unatural links, can you please change the anchor text of your links from "blaH to "bla blah".

I am ignoring them, becuase the anchor text for links from the site in question, is set by a vbulletin plugin, which changes the anchor to whatever the page title is for the target page.

But I am curious.

Surely if Google has marked a page as being an unanatural links page, there is no point in webmasters asking other webmasters to modify anchor text for such a link? Its already been determined to be unatural, why bother with it?

Anyone got a position on this, or got any intel that indicates modifying anchor text and accompanying descriptions of old links makes an iota of difference re Penguin?