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Hi Jason, You find awesome discussion on Banner Ads here : http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-text-links-in-banner-ads-considered-the-same-as-paid-links Hope this help you out....

301 redirect it and you will be able to pass most of the link juice to your sales page.

My Friend, I was having the exactly same problem, and finally my solution was add at operating system level the "Read-Only" attribute for this file. Hope it help Claudio

I'd concur with this approach - however you can only Geo-Target with Google Webmaster Tools, not language target. You might be better to implement rel="alternate" hreflang = "x" via your sitemaps to help Google understand which content is intended for which audience. See - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2620865 I hope this helps, Hannah

Hey Russ, you're right and this is something we're working on. For years it was standard in our industry to trade links with specific keywords in them, not for seo purposes, but for traffic.  With the recent algo changes, this method has backfired on us.  I'm working on cleaning everything up. Quick question : What tool are you using in that screenshot? Cheers

I'm fine with it. Don't put NSFW, I didn't know what that stood for. Put NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK or if you wife is around in bold.