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I see a lot of opportunity to get lower quality, but highly relevant backlinks, should we try to get these?  I'll give you an example, lets say we have an asphalt paving company ( not a lot of authority blogs out there, that we can find yet)

We found this one http://www.wolfpaving.com/blog/ - DA of 27 and PA 29 should we go after links like this.  I would actually like to know about sites with less authority than this one, I would probably go for this one without question.  So Should we go after worse DA and PA but still legitimate looking sites and highly relevant?

What are your suggestions about moving forward with sites hit by the "Penguin" penalties?

1. Wait it out and see if the penalty goes away
2. Try to remove spammy backlinks and resubmit (is this worth the time and effort)
3. Build quality backlinks to offset (will this even work if they have thousands of spammy links)
4. Blog more (I think this is probably a no brainer)
5. Scrap the site and start from scratch (This is last resort and don't want to do this if at all possible)
6. Or any other ideas are greatly appreciated

I have some clients that recently got hit by "Penguin" they have several less than desireable backlinks that could be the issue?  Does anyone have any suggestions on getting these removed?  What are the odds that a webmaster on these spammy sites are going to remove them, and is it worth the time and effort?

I was checking a few of my clients backlinks that recently got hit by the "penguin" update to possibly try and remove some of the potentially spammy links.

I ran reports in both opensiteexplorer.org and majesticseo and majesticseo brings back a ton more links, and these are sites that don't even have the max 10,000 backlinks that OSE should be bringing back.  Does OSE bring back reliable backlink data?  I'm starting to wonder.

The problem I'm running into is that I have an agency, and not all my clients have social media accounts (trying to change that), but nevertheless it's an issue.  I know people on here probably frown upon something like synnd.com, but to do this at scale is there another option? Particularly for clients who don't have social media accounts?

Once your guest posts go live do you do anything to promote them or do you just wait and hope they get indexed?  If so what do you do exactly?

Thanks Mcarle.  Great info!!

I own an agency and have several local clients.  Particularly clients in the service areas - Window replacement company, Roofing company, Foreign Car repair company, and an Asphalt paving company.  I really want to run some link bait campaigns, and would love any input you guys might have.  Thanks in advance for your ideas:)