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You can try to contact the website owner to see if they will remove those links. However, spam websites will never do so. What you can do is disavow the links, not just the domain. Finding the exact links you're listed on and disavowing those is the proper way to clear those links. Also, using Google Webmaster tools is a great way to find out if you have been penalized for something in regards to your website.

There are two main ways to do something like this. 1. The easiest way to organize them would be to build a page on your site that has a list of your presentations, and then each presentation you can link to as either a .PDF or .PPTX file (or both). 2. If you really want to take it to the next level, build out each presentation as a page in HTML. Have each slide displayed as a graphic, where they end user can click for the full page view. Place your comments / what you'd say during the talk below each slide, listed on one long page. This is a lot like the Moz whiteboard video talk, where the transcript from the video is below on the page. I hope this helps! -- Jeff

You're very welcome, David. Hope it helps!

Pablo - Yes, it would be better to have all of your domain authority under one main domain name, instead of spreading it thinly using subdomains. Thanks, -- Jeff

Follow is better than nofollow but both are good. What's more important is the relevance and authority of the site you are getting your link from. Links should point to the most relevant page on your site given the context of the link. In general, a majority of your links should be pointing at your homepage with your brand name.

Not sure what the "fullsite=true" for distinguishing mobile vs desktop is about.. can't you link to an article that describes this? As far as I know, Google cannot understand that. See Google's official suggestions for mobile websites here - https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details

Rel=canonical is great for helping search engines serve the correct language or regional URL to searchers, but I'm not sure how it would work for two sites both purposed for the US (.us and .com). What's the thought behind having two sites - is the .us site intended for Google US searches and .com the default for anything outside of the US? Are there language variations? What are the different "locations" you're referring to?

Hi How about Facebook Ads, I have used this in the past and a good way to reach your target audience. It can be reality cheap as well to advertise. Can you use the company's social media to post the articles. Alternatively look at the key influencers in the industry (if you are in the UK, then Lad bible) and try get them to repost your content, they will be a relative audience that drives a lot of traffic. Thanks Andy

Thanks George, much appreciated.

Thank you for your answers.

Jeff - I am referring to destination URL only. Thanks Linda - Good find, I will give it a try. FYI - It's a one page site, we're trying to break up where possible. Thanks.

hi, no sorry the url is written  as http://www.domainname.com/category/listing/product-name it's possible WMT takes the duplicate pagetitles, i have to change that.

Hi Jeremy To my knowledge this is not possible with wordpress.com - this is a little old but states such is the case: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-to-embed-canonical-url-in-my-posts-and-pages adamxj2 posted a good link below from Google, which gives some other steps you can take to help mitigate common issues a canonical tag is meant to address. I find that very often people use canonicals as a band aid anyway, instead of a deeper fix - so there is likely another way to achieve what you need to.

Hi Leonie-Kramer, Thanks for this, I was leaning the way of canonicals, but will try out the URL parameters first as I think this provides a great way of telling google that the content is filtering for users, but thanks for the answer, will go this route if Google still see to be struggling with Duplicates.

Contrary to what authors want to see and what Google says, the Google algos are not very good at ranking the content owner's website first in the search results.   Instead, optimization and strength usually win. Like you, I really dislike that. Lots of affiliates are really good at optimization and they often have strong websites.  They also like to use the text of the affiliate program's website instead of writing their own.  The more affiliates republish your content the more likely you are to rank poorly. So, you can either live with this and enjoy the sales that the affiliates produce or you can be a hardass and refuse to pay any affiliate who uses your content.   If you do that a lot of affiliates will start promoting your competitor's products. If you tell affiliates that they must rel=canonical their pages to your website then their pages will not rank in the SERPs.  Many of them will quit your program the moment you demand that. When you recruit affiliates you can get really smart people to go up against your competitors... but at the same time there will be some damage done to your own direct sales.  It boils down to this....   When you hire mercenaries, they are going to run the battle on their terms or cross over to your competitor.  You will be hit with some friendly fire.