To add too the comments above specific spammy backlinks can infact hurt your site,

For example if all of a sudden you see a number of links to your website with anchor text to adult terms pointing to your website with your url from adult based websites. I have seen targeted spam in this way affecting websites.

But from what you explain the links that have been built by the prior designer do not seem tat bad at all, I would not worry too much.

Launching a new site you need a strategy for your marketing, This would involve what type of things you want to use.

A few quick tips to get links:

• Blogs in your niche, see if you can guest post.

• Social Bookmarking websites.

• Upload your content to video sites.

• Make social profiles for your business, link back to your site via these.

• Link u via your linkedin profile to your site.

Hope that helps

Think about it but Facebook Adult content is banned via user streams so if some one likes content then it is aggainst policy.

But yes Twitter and google+ the rules are a bit more relaxed in this area so I guess adult web master have been getting away with it and seeing good results.

I read an article recently saying that Tumblr was a very popular social place to syndicate adult based content too, so that could also be an options possible.

Sorry I do not really deal in the adult niche so I am not an expert I only read bits and piece online

Hi,

The thing about country level TLD's is they will rank well in that country, If you use a .com.br domain it may not rank well in Australian results or USA results only for the brand term, even if you geo target sub folders on the domain.

Can you acquire the .com domain? From my experience .com works the best on a global level.

My advice is to use the domains you have for specific markets on the CC TLD's yet for other areas which you are not able to acquire the domain use SUB FOLDERS on the .com domain and then GEO target these sub folders in Google webmaster tools.

Finally do not use sub domains it is not a wise strategy, you will have no internal linking value.

Hi,

Algos do change around the world, different things can be seen in different markets.

For example Google will favour .com.au domains in the Australian market because it is country specific TLD's.

Sure you can GEO target the domain via webmaster tools yet it will not be as powerful.

Also country specific links will work in your favour and copy which meets the users language for your area.

Do some TLD's have more spamy things going on? Yes I agree some areas we see that .com market Google has really been fixing it up for a long time other markets are a bit slower to move, yet with all the recent changes to the algo like Panda we are seeing all TLD's come together in a more combined sense.

Hope this helps.