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Probably not. From what I know if a site has been hit by the mean penguin it lost most if not all of it rankings, it might be in Google's little black book so in theory it might pass the negative rankings to your site. You should only get links from trusted sites that don't do any black SEO to get high rankings. Links are like people, well more like characteristics of people. Would you become friends with someone who is shady, will lie to you, might steal from you, etc... would you let them into your house??? I assume you would want to be friends with someone who respects you, will help you out when you need help, someone you can trust, etc... and would be welcomed in your house anytime. That's the way I think about links and whether I would want to have that link on my site.

Understood, thanks!

I would leave it as is...

Hello and welcome OJ!

I also started with SEOMoz not too long ago. First thing you definitely need to read the SEOMoz Beginners Guide to SEO http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Here is the link to the help section that describes the tools and how to use them:

http://www.seomoz.org/help/

on the left side under tools click on the one you need help with.

Hope this helps!

To be honest with you, I'm not sure if you can check if a site has been hit or not by the penguin, maybe someone here with more experience can answer that question.

I did a little investigation on the http://www.interiorarcade.com/

Here is what I found, the domain age is 3 years old.

Google PR score is 3 (on the home page)

almost 14000 links from 140 root domains...

Digging deeper into OSE I saw that they quite a few links from a bunch of directories and link farms.

and VERY FEW links from related sites.

So I think there is a very good chance that they were hit by the PENGUIN. take a look at Majestic SEO they keep a history. I've never used it so I can say if PR is being tracked or not but if it is you can see if their PR dropped when penguin was released.

Hello,

If the link itself is embedded inside a swf or flv file than it is very unlikely that any crawler will be able to see and follow that link. However even though its a flash site it still contains HTML code that calls the flash files, and if they put a link within that HTML code that calls all other flash files than that link will get crawled.

Here is a link to Google's Webmasters Blog that talks about crawling flash content:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html

Hope this helps.