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You know Gregory and Simobens, I stand corrected.  I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that.  As Gregory says, good external links pointing to live pages on your site is good.  If either the page with the link or the page on your site that the link points to is deleted, it's not good.

i always open internal and external link from my site no sale window.

If you are looking for directories, this is a good resource: vilesilencer.com http://info.vilesilencer.com/niche Where there is good page rank and relevance, a few directory links may not hurt, use with caution.

Oh, immense thanks, EGOL! The WordPress plug-in is a godsend, as we have tons of very high-quality, authoritative landing pages, and it will make for an efficient means of linking to them. Also, re: persistent navigation. I've been meaning to put a resources area in the menu bar with links to these landing pages -- which will also work well as info/destination pages as well. I guess I've always figured it just seemed too good to be true that having those links in the nab could really have a positive outcome. But we just recently got upgraded to PR5, so I guess we'll get to see what all that juice can do us. Thanks again!

Did you ever get an action against you ? You can always no follow all the footer links with the exception of the home page thus keep visibility & traffic. Generally you would want domain names more than other anchors, Google's pretty lenient if you are a web designed knowing a lot of people do this but as mentioned no follow would be a good practice on it. you may find a similar Q&A question here - http://moz.com/community/q/is-it-ok-for-a-web-design-company-to-have-a-branded-footer-link-on-their-client-s-sites

Hi All ! Just an update. I did ask John Mu about the question. Would updating disavow on a regular basis have a negative effect on site rankings. He Said No. The reason to share this video here is because, this subject is so hot and i was curious to know the answer. Hope this thread can answer queries of others ppl as well who were confused. You can see the answer to my question here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYys6QWYbvo&t=41m25s But, as Robert and Pete said, and i do agree with both of them, that disavow should be used as a last resort, and its better to do a complete check of backlinks and then try to remove them first and use disavow as the last option, for the domains which can't be removed. watch?v=FYys6QWYbvo&t=41m25s

Feel free to email me ryan@vitopian.com You may also call my office. In the US/Canada 855-633-4SEO, all other countries 800-633-4SEO I am not clear if this post violates SEOmoz standards. If so, feel free to delete. I perfectly understand.

Honestly, I have looked at every tool out there but most tools look at patterns and collect data over time. If you go and start using these tools, they will take the more obvious ones out but using the disavow with manual will be a better and reliable option

In addition, http://www.jwsltd.co.uk/ has a 0 PageRank. In Google's eyes, you are getting hundreds of unnatural links from a low quality site.

Hello, I have used your method, but i see something strange still on my google results: Still tag page indexed and no google picture. Is this going to update at the next index or '???

Anchor keywords are never natural. The only reason you link to the Adobe Reader page is because you would like people to help read their PDFs. That's why it's one of the most linked to pages. It would be weird if everybody would start linking to their Photoshop page as you could also read PDFs with Photoshop and it costs hundreds of dollars.

Thanks every one, I will see how I get on

Awesome - thank you so much!!

Ah I think this answers my question: ....John Mueller of Google did confirm  at Google Webmaster Forum that, if a page is made 404 or 410, links to such a page are not counted by Google.

Just been checking my backlinks on GWT. Quite a few that are listed on places like Open Site Explorer and ahrefs don't show up in GWT - most noticeably the pr0n sites. Why is there this discrepancy in reports between the tools like OSE/ahrefs and GWT?

Not a problem. If that's your only sidebar/footer link, you'll probably be just fine. In regard to any link building in the future, if you would give the site your credit card number without much thought, it's should be okay. If a site looks like a site/page only exists to serve exact match anchor text, that one should be avoided. (Think blog spam and most PHP link directories.)

this would depend on if you're linking you're short URL that your domain. And what you're actually  use  totally.awe.sm I can say enough good things about it. I hope this helps you. You can also see exactly where your shares went. I believe that the Bitly enterprise edition has similar features. I hope this will help, Thomas

I agree with Takeshi. One thing that no one has mentioned here is GetListed.org  (which Moz purchased in 2012 or 2013). Although their evaluation tool can be a bit wonky, it is helpful in identifying which directories your business may or may not be in, and there is an interface that helps you submit your listings manually which is completely free. If you have more time than money, this can be a good alternative to services like Yext. Hope that helps. Cheers! Dana

Yahoo answers appears to use country subdomains e.g. uk.answers.yahoo.com for UK and fr.answers.yahoo.com for France. They don't have a tr.answers.yahoo.com so guess that it doesn't exist.

Hi Jeroen, I'd be very careful about placing sitewide links on all your client sites that point back to you site. This could easily end up hurting you. Here's an example where WPMU.org was hit because they were doing something similar - http://moz.com/blog/how-wpmuorg-recovered-from-the-penguin-update. I think the best thing for you to do is add a "nofollow" tag to all the links from your clients' sites that point to your site. This should help protect you and then moving your site over to Server A won't be a problem either. Hope this helps. Tim