I am sure the ‘you might also like’ article is good, but it is not one of mine!

What a fantastic post. Like you, I’d have contemplated whether to just tear the page down and disavow all knowledge of the company, but it just goes to show that there are benefits to be had by looking at an issue from dual aspects. No, I’m not an estate agent.

I’d just like to add one thing, if I may, that I touched upon on my StumbleUpon comment for this article:
if the site passes Copyscape and is in the context/theme of your own blog/website, the reason it may not have been ranking is the very links you’ve been asked to disavow, so it might be worth keeping.

I’d repopulate the anchor text, give it a social share or two and see what happens, at least for a while.

It may be that linking to sites you know would benefit from your links, rather than the site you were asked to link to at the article creation stage, will encourage the new beneficiaries of the links to do more to link back to your article, making it more searchable.

Just a thought.

I’ve just started my own product website so I’m now off to read your ‘you might also like’ article.

Thanks again, Jon – cracking read. xxx