Related Pages in Google

[Brave Boy]

This usually means you are participating in a recip network like linkmarket.net (or something similar)

Related has everything to do with linking.

[fransome]

You may not like Site W but you can hardly ask them not to link to X

It's true. YOu don;t have control over another website's content. But you can try to ask the owner to do this.

I had these problems before. Some websites with millions of SPAM pages(which took content from google, and stored it in a db, for every search made in their site, than made a page for that) linked to me and i was related to them, in the related parameter.

I actually had to get up to the host to ask the owner (because the owner did not respond to my emails/telehpones) to remove my link from his website.

In two months after he removed that link, he was banned from google

I avoided a mess.

Such incidents happen. All we can do (those of us who desire quality content) is monitor our websites, and try to do the best we can to preserve them in the condition we want.

Am i wrong here ?