Paid Industry Link without nofollow

[RoveTeam]

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[FedeEinhorn]

Hey Victor,

You summed up with your last phrase: "I guess we just want to know if it is okay for these paid ads to not have nofollow."

Paid ads, then a nofollow is a must. ALL paid links should be nofollowed. Any link that you get by giving something in return as a "compensation" are paid links, and should be nofollowed (affiliate links, paid links, paid releases, etc).

Hope that helps!

[artdivision]

I know I might get bashed here but nope I wouldn't nofolow the links. What Federico says which is "ALL paid links should be nofollowed" is what Matt Cutts says and I have lost faith in what he says the moment I reduced my time reading about SEO and start testing instead.

http://www.desiretoinspire.net/ is a PR 3 alt img tag with no anchor text - that should be ok, I wouldn't change it

http://www.homedesignfind.com/ is a PR 5 - I wouldn;t touch it

http://www.housetweaking.com/ is PR 4 and looks ok but has pushed too much the anchor text ratio. EMD saved it from last PR update I suppose. I would keep it for the time being.

http://lorilangille.blogspot.co.uk/ is a web 2.0 property which has 1860 links coming from 1 domain and in total 6556 links coming from 5 domains. This is the top of a link pyramid who send Tier 1 links to money sites like yours. - This would be the only one I would remove immediately as it only puts you in danger and provides 0 link value plus the footprint will be too long for you to waste time and decide if they are good/bad links. Just delete it. Having said that I have to raise my concern in what kind of other web 2 properties point to your site. Let me know if you want me to go through your domain and have a  quick look.

My $0.02 anyway

*EDIT: I am in no position to know what sort of link building the first 2 domains I mention do. For that I would have to do an extensive search and link profiling. But taken into consideration the metrics and concerns presented by you, this would be my call - remove only the web 2. Hope this helps!

[RoveTeam]

Hi Yiannis thanks for the feedback.  We actually recently had a manual penalization from google.  However doing some research now that we are doing SEO and learning it in house we found the last company used black hat methods and linked us on sites that are bad.  We have since removed those and are researching on our paid links hence this question.

I will definitely take you up on your offer if you can go through our domain to see if there are any more odd things we can fix.

Mind you lots of links we actually have removed by actually asking for the site to remove us ... there are around 20 links left now we used google disavow

thanks

Victor

[artdivision]

Hi Rove and thanks for the additional info,

Fact you got manual penalty changes the ball game and it depends how deep they will go to your profile. I have a bad experience with manual penalties where google even pointed it out branded anchor texts from PR4 web sites simply because they didnt want the link there. It took 4 reconsideration requests to eventually lift the ban. In that case I would remove those link, or submit without those links included and have the file ready for re-submission 10 days later or so.

The fact that you went through the asking/removal root SHOULD be rewarded as they would like to see the effort. Make sure you document everything and state that in your reconsideration request document (mines are roughly 2 full pages) and that you list them properly to your google doc exccel sheet.

I will be more than happy to quickly check your profile. Just bear in mind that majestic seo doesnt download all the links so I might miss something. The best tool to get your links downloaded is Webmaster tools which I will also be more than happy to review if you want. Send me a PM whenever you want with your domain.

[RoveTeam]

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