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Not sure about the domain report option, but if enough webmasters report links from the same domain you can be sure that it will get deindexed/blacklisted soon enough.

Updowner, you will be one of them.

Assuming you have not got any messages from google in WMT, you can go to the specific link page, and see if there is hundred/thousands of links that are obviously all there for the wrong reasons.

Numbers is the main way, PR of 0 or N/A may be an indicator too (why would hunfreds of sites want a link from a 0 PR page) put both together..... a link page with hundreds of outbounds with a 0 page rank (indicating google has stripped it)..... is apretty sure bet.

Apparently google MAY be bringing in a link reporting tool in WMT. cant wait for the day.

But when you are talking thousands of links it would be no easy task.

I have been thinking about blocking specific IP's in htacess in regards to trying to combat spam links, not sure if it would work though, but you would surely be telling the bots you don't trust the site/domain.

Apparently the only thing to do is to submit a recon request, admit to G you've been caught up in some promis by an SEO company, and tell them you have tried to get them removed but you can;t, but when you are talking thousands of links......you may want to seriously consider starting form scratch if the recon request does not get accepted, at least keep the site on the back burner in the hope google does come out with the reporting tool and that way you will have a nice clean site half way developed too.

All the best.

It could be seen as spammy by some anal search engines.

Why would you want to do it anyway?

It's possibly just our experiance, but we will never hire any SEO companies.

You are putting your site and business into the hands of someone else. And paying them for it.

What may work for SEO now, may not work in the future.

There are basics to creating a good website with easy enough SEO you can do yourself, but it takes time to read, research trial and experiment.

Start learning and don't put your fate into anyone elses hands.

It depends how many exact match achors you have out there, from what sites and how relevent it is to your domain/title and content.

If your site is joeblow.com and it's content is about horse racing but you have 100 achors for "best horse racing tips" becuause that's what you want to rank for it is indicitive to google those links may not be natural and if deemed so you may lose some of the ranking juice from those links.

Devaluation of links has been a huge going on lately in the google backyard. Especially since Mr penguin migrated from the icy slopes.

Sitelinks are a sign of domain authority in googles eyes, I dont mean it's like a huge thing, but google trusts your site enough to show more links and that's a good thing.

I have seen them come and go just by switching browsers, I.E shows them mozilla doesn't and vice versa, also if you have made a lot of changes recently it could be a case as you say of google trying to figure out when you will stabalize and then rank you/trust you accordingly.

Check your htaccess file for any abnormalities, but it could just be an seomoz glitch.