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They are both good links, just saying is there a big difference between related content and non-related content. Has nothing to do with link farms or anything. Both are good sites.

try beyondroi for Spanish stuff, not sure about French though.

Good stuff. Thanks Steve!

Google has officially said that the Wonder Wheel has been removed. More details in this post on Search Engine Land. http://searchengineland.com/official-the-google-wonder-wheel-is-gone-84105

Our site is doing the same. EZWatch-Security-Cameras.com Restructuring allows you to organize your content into "Silos" and eliminate some of the unnecessary links through JSON objects, iframes, and nofollows (some debate there on which is optimal). The Downfalls: There will probably be a 30-90 day dip in traffic but if you do page-to-page 301's it won't hurt nearly as much. Anytime you change URL's you are likely to see some inbound links drop off, but that happens when the pages don't change, so it's going to be minimal. Sure, 301's might drop some of your PR during transfer, but only a minimal amount according to matt cutts. The Benefits:  Organizing your content into silos and pruning cross-category links will allow you to control the flow of pagerank and anchor text much more effectively. Bruce Clay has a huge amount of resources on this, and they even cover it on their blog. Will it be painful? Yes. Will it be worth it? Yes.

We have bread crumbs on our main site and as Dejan describes.... "Another neat thing is in the SERPs when you get little: Top Level > Main Category > Sub Category type links under your snippet. "  .... lots of these extra links appear in our SERPs. Also, just yesterday we started adding breadcrumbs to our second most important site.  This is part of a redesign for a site that was built a long time ago. It is a medium-size handbuilt site and adding the breadcrumbs is going to be a little costly. We believe that breadcrumbs are very important for visitors, they help communicate the structure of your site to google and are important for making the navigation structure links appear in the Google  SERPs.

lol well that would be a niche where you'll get some link troubles. But yes you're right it's very likely that some of those outgoing links are causing the issue. Any site that is spammy or in a spammy neighbourhood needs to be removed. Do you really need to keep any of them? Reciprocal links really don't do a lot for you anyway.

Thanks, We have webmasters account set up - we knew it from even analytics that search terms that we were ranking before - now we are not.

Your idea of offering links to other content written by the same author is quite sound. The question is how to best implement that idea. You specifically ask about writers who have an extensive content history. You could use a system simliar to what Matt Cutts uses on his blog. If your writer has a similar history to Matt, I would prefer having the 2005 - 2009 entries grouped by year rather then by month. This change would consolidate 50+ links down to 5.

Ok, got it.  Thanks for your help!

This is it.... channel the energy into planning and development.

Ensure the content is good quality, and ensure it contains some original and useful stuff Promote the content on the basis that it's good quality and it will hopefully gain links, shares, etc... naturally Link build with anchor text to relevant pages from relevant pages on relevant sites, but don't over-do it with the anchor text, only a percentage of it should be keyworded. Diversify with your link building, so get links from different types of sites such as blogs, forums, directories, articles, social media platforms, and do a bit of bookmarking too. Start looking on blogs, etc... and on here about how social signals are seemingly becoming more and more important, and think about how you will begin to work that fact into your future strategies.

Hey totalvac, The markup goes throughout your page. Here's the getting starter guide for schema.org. Does this help?