First of all, what is a Google removal request? Well, if you want to remove your website from Google's Index, a decision that will stop your site being displayed on Google search results, you must send the company a removal request.

But what can you do if you want to increase the position in Google's PageRank? You can try using some SEO techniques that will surely help you gain advantage but, it seems a new strategy is getting more and more popular: convince your rival to remove his site from Google.

DeanHunt.com published an e-mail received from one of the webmasters that are ranked after him, saying that this is surely the funniest Google removal request he ever read.

"I have been running the site for over two years and we have been ranked very highly for the search term [edited].
On Thursday morning I checked our google positions and your site is now above us for this term. I have checked your blog and it has nothing to do with [edited], so I think it would be best all round if you remove your blog from google for this search term.

Please understand that we make our living from this, and you are just writing a blog that has nothing to do with [edited]. If you do not remove yourself from google for this search, then I will call them myself and have you removed." the sender said.

So, it looks like search engine optimization is having another approach because you can increase your PageRank position by intimidating your rival, avoiding many hours spent for configuring your SEO techniques. If you want to read more about this letter and also the reply of the owner, you should visit this page.