Disclaimer about removal of links

[mack]

For the first time I saw a site saying that it may not be able to return links or may be required to remove links if the PR of the site being linked to is lost.

here is the text with the domain removed

In very rare cases, we may not be able to provide a link to your web site or may be required to remove a link to your web site. These cases arise where your site has been penalized by the major search engines (Google and FAST Search, in particular). By linking to penalized sites, the ranking of our own site also goes down, leading to lower traffic levels. We reserve the right to remove a link from ---------- to a website that is believed to be penalized by one or more search engines. The determination of whether or not a web site has been penalized is in our sole discretion. We will contact you in the event a link to your web site has been removed both to explain why your web site link was removed and to provide suggestions on how to remove the penalty from your web site.

Sounds like a reasonable statement. Looks like this sort of thing could be the way forward.

[edited by: mack at 11:51 am (utc) on Nov. 17, 2002]

[troels nybo nielsen]

Good find, Mack. I think we can expect many webmasters to follow this example.