Hey Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik, I've got an idea on how you could help me report people who want to do foul link exchanges to you. What about creating an email address, to which I can forward all those automated emails with subjects like "Quality PR5 linkswap", so you can just ban all of them...
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Matt, Adam, Please let me report linkspammers!
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- Joostdevalk – השריף החדש בעיר! | AskPavel - Tue, March 25th, 2008 at 14:08
How can you be sure that they aren't sent in other people's names? Email is such an anonymous thing. The link-exchange requests I get at the moment are non-indentifying, they come from free-email accounts, use generic names (like, uhm, "John") and do not mention any site name.
Ey John, I'd argue e-mail is less anonymous than links, so...
ah, GMTA.
Intentionally I'd say this:
You cannot do that with paid links as well. Still you guys are influencing rankings when you get shit loads of links out from bad neighborhoods and linkfarms...
But Joost summed it up in one single line :)
This kind of e-mailspam could indeed help Google to trace these linkspammers and have some solid evidence to penalize them.
I would also be a fan of a way to report commentspam. There are several initiatives already, but it would be even better if webmasters could report commentspam directly to Google so they know which domains are spamming on large scale at different websites and blogs and should be penalized or even banned for this.