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Excellent points and advice, thanks everyone for answering.

Well, that makes more sense now !! I didn't read it correctly then. Sorry, my mistake. Well, to address your question in that regards then; 1. If I were you, and you have access to their amazon-like site, code and ability to modify, you could very well implement the canonical tag, and redirect all value and links to your clients domain. I wouldn't count on that other site driving any traffic at later points though once the value shift takes place. Those product pages will become mute. 2. Option 2 -> By keeping both sites open (amazon and client site), you have the possibility of driving multiple sources of traffic for the client domain and products, and building the main client site out to out perform the amazon-like site. Still, following the steps above will help you plan a good solid strategy going forward and will help support the sites performance, user experience to ultimately improve sales conversions and revenue Cheers!

The post at http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal may also be helpful to you, too.

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Hi Rand Many thanks for taking the time to check by on this one. I appreciate you giving your valuable input. Peter

The Beginner's guide to SEO has a chapter on links at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links that can be helpful, too. Above all, consider the value that you are adding to a site when you contribute content, not just "is this a place that will allow me to leave a link".

The bigger question should be -- is it worthwhile to do automated social bookmarking at all? Generally, it's better to let it come naturally as users find the content, and not to submit to hundreds of bookmarking sites that may be off topic.

Thanks Takeshi Young and seom2014.

What I do is work with the spreadsheets to get it down to one link per domain and then I make a spreadsheet out of that.

There's no harm in disavowing the link but it's probably not necessary.  The point of the disavow tool is to allow webmasters to ask Google to not count links that were made for SEO purposes.  If you had placed this here so that you could increase your rankings then sure, I'd disavow it.  It's unlikely that it's a negative SEO tactic...not with just one link.  But, if you had a pile of these and you felt it was negative SEO then I'd disavow. Every site, even the ones with the cleanest backlink profiles have bizarre links that appear like this.  I would just ignore it. If, however, you are trying to get it removed because you don't like the idea of your face residing on a page filled with porn, then if you can't contact the webmaster, you can try reporting the site to its host.  Sometimes the host will remove spam pages/sites.

Hi, Thank you for the response. Yes, 301 redirects are working fine. checked webmaster; pages are indexed. I will wait for the redirects to pass on the links then. Thank you again! Best Regards, Moeez

Personally if you are using a tool like Open Site Explorer and are already undertaking a link cleaning exercise. If you identify no follow links on spammy or dodgy sites then I would add to the disavow as you are doing this anyway. I would rather clean all links as who know that Google will change next so I prefer to ensure everything is legitimate and as it should be even if our clients currently aren't being penalised. I wouldn't go out of your way though to disavow these no follows if you are not cleaning your links anyway.

To be honest, the only way I judge directories today is by how much referral traffic they might bring. In the past 2 years we've seen Google get tighter and tighter on link directories, and if you're going after a link purely for the "juice" than I would consider that highly suspect in Google's eyes. On the other hand, standards are different for local and niche specific directories, as they might more endorsement and local citations are considered the #1 local ranking factor. At the end of the day I doubt very much a link from the Yahoo directory will hurt, but I would also be equally surprised if it helped much.

What she said.

Having thousands of no-follow site wide links is unlikely to be worth very much if anything. You'd be better off getting a small number of links from domains that are authoratitve and/or relevant to your niche. So think about getting links that have a high contextual relevance too. (The content in which they appear is about the same topic). There's a risk that site-wide links get people into trouble with penguin / unnatural links and anchor text over-optimisation. The exception here is where the links have the potential to bring you relevant direct traffic which have have a high conversion rate depending on the source.

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I agree I have read somewhere that the less sub folders the better. So having your domain name, the category name and then a item name would be best practice. And of course detailed SEO friendly names and not the post numbers ect.

Thanks everyone for such great answers! You've all helped a great deal in answering the question

As an update, here's a link to the Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet by Moz.  They do recommend the www.domain.com/blog: http://moz.com/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet-2013-edition Thanks! Jeff

As Cyrus mentioned, OSE does not account for every single link in the world. Your website at the moment is very small in comparison to other sites, and Roger simply cannot find your tiny links amongst the rest of the web! Needle in a haystack. HOWEVER. Open Site Explorer isn't the only way of finding this information. Analytics & WMT are both relatively good for finding links, both internal & external. If you can physically see and count the links on the site, then you just need to wait for Google to index them - you can check this in WMT.