Google nofollow, Disavow and Link Removal Requests
- by PsychoDad
I am the owner of http://www.YouReview.net and I am constantly getting requests from people asking me to remove links to their sites or they will Disavow the links and they threaten me with Google penalties.
All of this is a bit frustrating because first I use nofollow on any link outside the YouReview.net domain. Second, I've never heard of Google penalizing a site for linking to other websites.
My question is twofold:
Do disavowed links penalize the site that was disavowed? and
Does the "nofollow" attribute on tags absolutely guarantee that the link is not followed and not counted for search engine ranking?
Why don't more people know about nofollow?