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Thank you both for the responses, really appreciate it.  From what I can tell in G analytics we're not receiving any benefit from these links whatsoever, so I'll contact them first before going the disavow route and ask them nicely to remove us.  Thanks again!

So here's the situation.  My companies site has over 30 thousand backlinks from Rippling.info  These links all point to 3 product pages, some of which are no longer in production.  Apparently a former employee was experimenting with some link farm ideas.

My questions are; 1. does anyone here have experience with rippling.info?  Is it legit?  It seems like a link farm but Google allows adsense ads???  I thought Google was against link farms...

2. if I use the Disavow tool in Webmaster Tools to tell Google these 30k+ incoming links are to be ignored, will there be any consequences?

-Google Analytics shows zero referral traffic since jan 1st 2012.

Jim,

What Richard said is 100% accurate, when I view your website with CSS, Javascript, and cookies disabled the majority of the important text on your homepage is lost.  Your header is an image, "Special package deals" section is an image, your endorsements are in an image, your list that starts with "don't be cruel" is an image.  None of the information on these images is crawl-able, and the alt text just has your name and the sections label.

I would recommend using CSS to place live text over the images so the pertinent information is crawl-able.

Hey K,

If you could post a screen shot of the Settings>Permalink structure screen in the Wordpress Dashboard, or just copy and paste whatever is written in there in a reply, that might help diagnose the issue.  Also, do you know if the site has moved hosts recently and was re-installed using the Wordpress export & import feature?

Screaming Frog Spider SEO is really good but the free version times out after 500 URLs.

Thanks.  Do you know any tools that offer a .csv export of the outbound link information with the anchor text?

Can you analyze outbound links from a given page with Open Site Explorer?

Thank you both for your input; I had suspected it might not be worth the annual cost to (maybe) get a link in the directory.

The fee does not even guarantee inclusion - and if you are accepted, does that link really add enough value to justify paying an annual $300 fee?

Thank you for the quick responses.

Thanks,

Matthew

I know that it is not a good practice to inlcude SEO content within JavaScript, but are there exceptions to what Google can spider or is it best to just avoid completely?