Google is not going to index http://www.websitebuildersworld.com, because it redirects to http://www.websiteplanet.com. Google won't index a domain that redirects to another domain. It will index the domain where the content is hosted.

Would like to get some thoughts on whether navigation menus or in-content links are best for internal linking, from an SEO standpoint.

A few thoughts to get started with:

1. For sites with a lot of content, you can have a navigation menu linking to your higher-level pages, then in-content links to deeper pages on your site. For smaller sites, this is not an option, as the navigation menu will probably link to all your important pages. You could add in-content links, but Google only counts the first link on the page, so the in-content links would be ignored if you'd already linked yp the page in your top nav menu.
2. I can think of several possible reasons navigation menu links could be less desirable than in content links from a Google perspective. (They are sitewide boilerplate content without context.)
3. If you setup your navigation structure based on what is best for the user, small sites don't have much wiggle room to optimize internal link structure, as all their money pages will be linked to from the top nav menu.

Do you think Google prefers in content links to navigation menu links?

If so, how do you get around the fact that for many sites, all their money pages are being linked to from their main navigation menu?

The links were built by another SEO firm. I'm working on getting rid of them, was just wondering what others new about links on de-indexed sites.

Have a client who has a bunch of links from spammy sites that aren't even indexed by Google. Will Google penalize (i.e. Penguin) for backlinks from spammy sites that aren't indexed?

I'm guessing "Yes, Google still crawls non-indexed sites and may penalize the sites linked to from the banned site." Anyone have any data or experience with this?

Anyone have a non-indexed or banned site? Does Google still crawl it?

Billy gave you some good advice, but I disagree with him on one point. Domain authority doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether a link is dangerous or not. You can get a spammy link from a domain with high authority or a great link from a lower authority domain.

You want to get rid of links that Google will view as intended primarily to manipulate search rankings instead of providing value to the user.

Some factors to consider:

• Is the link from a page or site that is relevant to mine?
• Does the link make sense for / provide value to the user?
• Does the link use my target keyword(s) as anchor text? (Too many keyword anchor texts is a problem.)
• Is the link purchased?
• Is the link near or with spammy links?
• Is the link from a low quality directory, forum signature, blog comment,
• Is the link from a page of duplicate content?

Hope that helps!

It sounds like the meta noindex,follow tag is what you want.

robots.txt will block googlebot from crawling your search pages, but Google can still keep the search pages in its index.

We've got content marketing and other great tactics for getting links to content pages, but what are your favorite tactics for getting links to your money pages (i.e. product pages, landing pages, devices pages, sales letters, etc.)

For example:

• For certain sites (especially some ecommerce sites), one can get a few backlinks by doing giveaways, contests, or events
• Some sites can give their product to bloggers to review

If you're selling an exciting product and/or a product that appeals to a passionate user base, such tactics can work great. There are some sites that such tactics won't work very well for, though. For example, if you sell a boring or highly specialized product that bloggers won't want to review or giveaway as a contest prize - such as valves used in a specific commercial application, or an expensive B2B product that you can't really giveaway. Creativity is of course important, but sometimes it can only take you so far.

What are your favorite strategies for getting quality backlinks to your "money pages" especially for sites that don't fit into the "ecommerce site selling cool stuff" category?