Can someone from WP please remove the link to the blog that I referenced on this discussion thread - here? I would hate to hurt the SEO optimization my friend is working on with that link. Thank you!
[closed] Can a WP mod/admin please remove the link in my post? (11 posts)
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thefoxbox
Posted 1 year ago # -
From ForumWelcome > Deleting / Editing Posts
It is not the general policy to delete forum posts. When a post is made and people contribute answers to an issue, that then becomes part of the community resource for others to benefit from and deleting posts removes this added value. In certain circumstances, members of the moderation team might be persuaded (for example, through free beer or bribery ;) ) to remove sensitive information that has been included in posts accidentally - but your best course of action is not to publish anything that you wouldn't want to be public. (Remember too that other sites take archive copies of the forums, and we can do nothing to control that.)
It won't hurt your SEO. At the VERY worst, it MIGHT cause a link to the forums to pop up on Google when someone searches for you. And yes, Google's already indexed the page.
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Posted 1 year ago #I guess it's a shame when a user can't even request that their own content be removed. I guess my posts have now become property of WordPress! Thanks anyway.
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You can ask, but it doesn't matter.
1) You've already had the post, with your URL, google indexed. So IF your SEO was going to be affected, it's too late.
2) Your SEO isn't affected anyway.
3) If you didn't want it on the Internet, you shouldn't post it. This is just a basic rule of thumb for anything :)
Now you know. (And knowing is half the battle!)
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Posted 1 year ago #1) I still asked anyway. Now, I want it removed because I'm asking that someone from WP remove it, for personal reasons. (I can easily put in a URL removal request and Google will update their cache within a few days once the content has been taken down.)
2) Wonderful to know! (And it's not my site.)
3) I'm quite aware of that. I had saved the "edit" link right after I posted it and bookmarked it but could no longer edit it to remove it, so I had planned on removing it from the start.
I would ask that someone else aside from Ipstenu reply if they can help. While I appreciate being told things I already know, that does not provide me with a resolution to my original post.
Thank you for your time, Ipstenu, but I no longer am interested in your replies and look forward to someone else from WordPress replying that is actually interested in addressing my very simple issue instead of prattling on about things I already know quite a bit about. Thanks and have a great day, sir.
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ummm..Ipstenu already stated the policy. Nothing much more to say.
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Hi. I'm afraid we have a policy on this that is linked to in every forum.
As such, and despite you're requesting it personally from me, I really can't remove anything.
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Posted 1 year ago #That's all that was necessary, Samuel. On top of that, I don't think a 'policy' that mentions alcoholic beverages is all that serious to begin with lol... I would've loved a clear/to the point response like what you just said instead of having to waste my time reading useless replies to what I wrote. Thanks for clarifying.
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It's ma'am, actually - Don't worry, I get it a lot. Apparently I 'write male.'
I quoted, and linked to, the policy in my first reply. The only reason you got a second one was because you erroneously stated that it was a shame people couldn't request their posts be edited (they CAN request) and that your posts were 'property' of WordPress (they're not, but I assumed you were being facetious at that point). Since you were concerned about SEO in your original post, I thought perhaps further elucidation was needed.
I'm sorry you think quoting policy was 'useless.' It was intended to be explanatory and informative. As I said, you didn't know then, now you do. S'how we learn.
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Posted 1 year ago #I wasn't referring to your original post, since the details were sketchy (the beer/bribery made me think it wasn't a policy that was enforced 100% of the time). Your second post was the one that started us down the path of uselessness. If you couldn't help, wouldn't it have been faster to just say that instead of showing off? Quoting a policy that mentions booze isn't one that people should abide by in my book. Take care, "ma'am".
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I think we're done here.
Also, I've edited the welcome message, for clarity.
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