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Thanks Dave.. Too many links on an article is not recommended so i through same thing apply for power points as well. I am just making an assumption here.

Some good responses there, thanks everyone.

ahrefs paid version has a way to go about this... but the just discovered tool on OSE would do it but only on a limited range. Other than that I'm not sure. Have you tried either of these?

I would not suggest submitting to any if your site is rather new - it can do more harm than good.

Hi, I'm not referring to the type of data, but whether or not you have a complete view of your backlink profile. If you check the quite lengthy answer I left on your other thread you should see what I mean  Sha

Hello! How is your site structured? Do you have languages on different subdomains (e.g. en.yoursite.com / es.yoursite.com), folders (yoursite.com/en), some other way (yoursite.com/mainpage?lang=en)? The first one will allow you to split your link sources in a more efficient way. However, in general, link should be obtained from a related source. So if some page on your site is in spanish, it is obvious you want to be linked from a spanish page, which content is related to your topic.

Thanks Jesse, that's probably a good approach.

If you are sure it has a penalty, I would 404 the page and get the links removed if possible

There is no ratio. Put the links that your users need to navigate your site

Using hreflang is ideal for your situation with all your sites are in English.  You may wish have have one site as a the default english language site and the other two targeted to specific countries (in this example UK and US). Here's example of hreflang implementation to place in the head of your pages. I would tread very carefully if using canonical with hreflang as Google no longer recommends it, although it doesn't rule it out comepletely either! Take a look at [this link](http://www.ingenuitydigital.co.uk/News/google-no-longer-recommends-relcanonical-hreflang-tags-1820.aspx) to find out more.

This is an example of one: http://www.splut.com/cgi/visit.cgi?type=search;phrase=danfoss oil pump;id=24a4

Does anybody know how long it will take for rankings to improve (if they do) once the links have been removed?

Do searches like: pages with titles containing "links" or "resources" and niche terms.

Hey Charles, A spammy link is a spammy link whether it comes from .edu sites or not. .Edu sites don't get any special considerations in the ways of spam. If the links make sense in context of the site that you are getting them from, then I wouldn't worry. However if you're getting a ton of list site links from pages that have nothing to do with your space at all, then I would worry about those especially if they are sitewides or on pages that have other clear indications of spam like adsense or too many ad blocks. -Mike

Be sure to let us know how it goes P.

Hey, Few things going on here. If they are PR4 and not in use, there is likely a reason for that and they are probably somewhat tainted. You could likely get this overthrown if you are buying them for genuine purposes by putting in a reconsideration request in. That said, there was a recent Matt Cutts video where he advised against this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lGUw9oS5csI I would at the very least do your homework. 1. Find out what used to be on the domain (wayback machine) 2. Search for backlinks to the domain 3. Look at citations and the history At the very least, as Matt says in his video, do some research and don't be the sucker that buys a spammy domain! Hope that helps! Marcus

I would. If a directory is easy to get on, looks spammy, provides no real benefit to you and you are only using it for link juice, get rid of it.

Thanks for the response, It scared me when I first saw it but didn't really rush to do anything about but I will now. Thanks again!

just because it may or maynot help with search rankigns doesn't mean those links and comments won't drive traffic. if you add a valuable comment to the blog then people are likely to click through from that site to your own, its not just about rankings

James, OSE only crawls a portion of the web. Even Google can not technically crawl the entire web. There's almost an infinite amount of information and web pages out there. So as long as it's cached in Google, which it is, I wouldn't worry about it. Eventually it will show up. The good news you shared is the fact that it shows up in webmaster tools. You are good.