Weird mail from 888mediaweb

[Erik]

Hi,
i just got a lot of mails from jonathan.milford(a)888mediaweb.com asking me to remove 888bingo links from al my sites.

Message,
Hi there My name is Jonathan Milford, and I’m the Seo Account Manager for 888bingo.com Due to the latest Google algorithm changes we are currently doing a lot of hard work to clean up a lot of the incoming links to our site to comply with Google’s quality guidelines. Please remove the links pointing to us from your site online-pokergames.info, or alternatively give the link the nofollow attribute. We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your time and effort. Best Regards, Jonathan Milford 888mediaweb.com jonathan.milford@888mediaweb.com


i truly dont have the time to go trough al my websites an remove links.
what you al think i should do?
And more important , is this 888media.com legit?

 

[byebyebaby]

If what he says is true than all links to all casinos, bingo rooms, poker rooms etc. should be removed? That's the point of what we do right? Link to their brands?

 

[AussieDave]

Obviously the party is over for the programs, who in the past, have prospered from aff links not being cloaked. Now G has changed their alog and from that email it seems these once favored links, have lost their value. In fact with so many uncloaked links pointing back to these casinos, I dare say they are going to cause a lot of negative impact.

I've always used cloaked links and blocked access by SE' especially Google.
My rational, can change links on the fly without touching pages AND as far as I'm concerned, I am marketing the casinos, I'm not a free 1 way link provider.

 

[Viriatu]

yes i get a lot of this also, never removed because in my case they ask me to remove links from smaller sites i dont pay much attention.

 

[Kadabra]

If what he says is true than all links to all casinos, bingo rooms, poker rooms etc. should be removed? That's the point of what we do right? Link to their brands?

- not remove all links, but to make them no-follow

Its anyway probably good for you to do it in terms of seo when you have time. On the other hand, don't think it should worry you much - they probably sent hundreds of those email, half of them to sites that where long forgotten. And they can always disavow the links on their end as well.

 

[Erik]

thanks for the info and help guys
Who wil it hurt the most if i dont remove anything? lol
after all 888 casava are no friends of mine

 

[Kadabra]

Who wil it hurt the most if i dont remove anything? lol
after all 888 casava are no friends of mine

True, but i won't be surprised if the next mass email will say that you won't get paid unless you handle those links ...

 

[Vladi]

That is ironic given that for years many affiliate programs were deliberately giving affiliates linking codes without the nofollow in them as a sneaky way of getting links back to their sites.

I don't know if 888media is legit - why don't you email the affiliate program or 888Bingo and ask them.

There could be a few reasons for the email:
1. They got a google penalty and are panicking trying to remove any and all links that look paid. Every affiliate link is a paid link.
2. They are afraid of getting a Google penalty and are doing some pre-emptive cleaning up.
3. Its a sneaky competitor trying to hurt them by getting a bunch of links removed.

If you don't remove it, they can:
1. Bitch and moan about it.
2. Disavow your link or domain in their Google webmaster tools account so it doesn't count as an incoming link for them. No-one knows if this can hurt your site. If it does, I would guess that it would only hurt if lots of different sites all disavowed your domain.
3. Invent a reason to terminate your affiliate account if you have one.

It is up to you how important those things are.

Lastly it sounds like you need to centralise your linking instead of pasting individual links on individual pages on multiple sites. You're going to have this problem every time an affiliate program changes their links, aside from requests like this.

 

[888affiliates]

Hi,

You received an email from 888mediaweb, that was not meant for you, so we’d like to apologise for the error.

We’d like to clarify the email that you received from 888mediaweb, was a legitimate email that was sent by 888.

However, the email was only intended for non-affiliate publishers, whose links are potentially damaging us.

The email was not meant to be sent to our affiliates.

Please continue promoting 888 with your current links, and accept our apologies for any confusion this may have caused.


888 Team

 

[Erik]

so you mean to tell me that this tracker code is not active right? how else can you not see that im an affiliate?
you haifa wa.kers are crooks like i told you 888 muppets before.
when i have the time .i wil not only remove links but change the review text into someting more apropiate .