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why are they redirecting back to home page? do you redirect them or are you still infected?

I would make sure they 404

I have a guy in India that link builds for me, I pay him for posting the link and pay him again on proof of success, so he has to show me the linking page.

it is hard to check as you suggest because links some times take a long time to be approved, and it is time consuming checking sites to see where they put your links. Even if there is software to do this, you may have to wait some time before checking.
Take the work off your hands and pay them on success is my advice

It is almost certain that the penalty is carried over. If i were a search engine i would ceratinly make sure thet loop hole was not avaialble.

If you know the domains that are affected, you can redirect conditionly to fic the problem.

These pages may have links from other spam sites, you don't want them to return a 200.
You want them to 404, in joomla you can make the site use htaccess or not, make sure it dose and 404 the pages there.

I did find out, his web sites are a chain of auto shops called Repco here in australia

A web site would have to be configured to acceppt that domain using host headers or to point taht domain to a interanl ip address so except for the unusealy setup that trick would not work in the vast majority of cases.

If 301ing good links works, then why not bad ones.

That means no body clicks on them, but how did google find them? This is not evidence there is no links, just that no one has visited your site thought them

Keep quite and take the money. better still increase your fee.

Very hard, You would need to register the domains with different details for example. the pattern of link networks is very hard to hide.

Having different c-class is not so importatnt, unless a high number of your links come from the same c-class. a c-class has 255 ip addresses, but each ip number can host a infinite number of websites, some small towns may have most of their web sites hosted on athe same ip number let alone c-class, so it is not un-common to have such links.

I would suggest you use the content for all these blogs on your own site, and try to attactt links. Haver a link network is dangerouse

I can see it fixed your problem, but its a ugly fix, you mean need to use parameters in the future, you may already be using them but unaware.

The easy fix is the canonical, yet Bing suggest not using the canonical on the true page, only the duplicates. Best if you can handle that in code, but not a big worry of you cant.

Facet naviagtion is a big problem, with no easy answers.

What sort of server are you using, on a windows server it is very easy to set up friendly urls for your dynamic urls.

i have a client that that google has said in a reconsideration request has spmmy links.

My question is can i simply block those request at the server, make the server drop the responce rather then go though the imposible process of getting them removed?

Does anyone have any expirence with this?

Thanks

I don't understand if you look at source code and see the text url, then that is how you are linking.

Using text rather then a ID gives you a chance to insert a keyword so text is better then ID.

Linking to an ID then redirecting to a text url as many CMS do, loses link juice on the redirect.

Can we get the urls, it hard to do asnythinfg without them

The linking shows you have better links, but he does alright in some key areas like trush linking domains. There are many other factors we could look at if we had urls

Thanks,

I plan to put it in my recon request, but to wait weeks for an answer, is a bit of a problem.

i would have thought the idea would have more mentions on the net, but i cant find anyone with expirence

I would go subdomain, there has been much said about subdomains v subfolders where most say subfolders are best, but when asked no one has ever been able to provide evidence of this, in fact all I have seen said by google is that there is no difference.

So with subdomain you should benefit from shared authority, as well as separation in appearance.

thats hard to say, it will be affecting your ranking , but how far is your compeditor ahead of you .

blocking by robots is not going to help. in your code it will be worse, as your links will be leaking into the unknown. A un-necessary redirect can lose you about 15% of uyou link juice, but linking to a page not in the index will lose you 100%.

blocking in robots is a last resoirt for serious problems.

My advice is to take the block out and try to address the redirects and broken links.

it is hard for me to know whats going on as i cannot read hebrew. One other thing, your 404 pages returns a 200, this is what they call a soft 404, you need to fix that also.

Have a read of the links i posted, they are from google, both say there is no difference.

Why do you say google treats them differenct. what seomoz does is not the point

I cant see how it could affect rankings and I have never heard of such a thing

OSE does not index the whole internet, but it tries to index them that count. the links you dont see are likely not good links.