Inbound links from porn sites into a professional business services site - remove help?

[GardenBeet]

The website in question was hacked four years ago and there was porn on the servers. It was used as a peer to peer torrent streamer.  The images were deleted.

We have just found inappropriate inward bound links (with great link juice!!)  - how can we remove these links - or should we?

any advice would be appreciated

thanks

[AndreVanKets]

I wouldnt worry about links comming in. Aslong as you arnt linking out to these dogy sites your all good.

Think about it, if i wanted to penalize my competitor, i would purchase a whole bunch of porn links directing them to my competition and intern they get penalized. This doesn't happen, so you have nothing to worry about.

GREG

[GardenBeet]

yeah i suppose you are right BUT we were just about to start a link building program - if anyone was to do a SEOmoz analysis of the site surely they would think the website is questionable???

[AndreVanKets]

As long as YOU know that you don't promote your site via porn/gambling sites then who cares? Explain to them your sites history and then they wont jump to conclusions when they see your link profile.

Its impossible to remove that link anyway, unless you contact the web-master.

GREG

[caseyhen]

Hi Felicity,

Andre is basically correct with his answer.  We usually tell people not to worry about links like this as long as you have a Strong Link Profile.  For example if you have a new website with no links and you suddenly get tons of bad links, you have a good chance of it hurting you.  Now if you have a strong link profile with good links and you get some bad links, it's not going to do anything.

So I would only worry about it if those are the only links you have in your link profile, otherwise you should be okay.

Casey

[GardenBeet]

OK thanks