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Thanks for that Omid

I have not seen any drops like this on my sites but I know of a marquee hire company that was at 8 last time I used them (a month ago) and today they are below page 10, so there maybe an update going on.

Without seeing the website and knowing the terms you refer to it is difficult to be exact.

In the past when I found sites that had scraped content from our sites I sent an email asking the site owner to remove the content (this never worked)

I then followed it a day or two later with a letter to the hosting company, with a copy of the original email to their client attached, this worked every time, the hosting companies closed the accounts down (or at lease suspended them)

I hope this helps

Sean

Hi

If my site gets mentioned on a site with the web address written out but not hyper-linked do I still get some SEO value from this or is it not giving any SEO benefit?

Thanks

Sean

Hi All

I have looked in WMT and it says I am getting a lot of links from 1 affiliate - they have 100,000 pages on their site but GWT is showing me 200,000 links from their domain - each of their pages has the following code.

I think we have Nofollowed the link but does the img src="http://www.site.co.uk/affiliate/affiliation-images/470x80.gif also act as a link and if so do I need to Nofollow that too?

The image is stored on our server so the affiliate is linking to the banner image on our server.

Would something such as this affect my rankings in a negative way?

Thanks

Thanks Chris

We have several affiliates that use banners that are stored on our servers, I have been told in the past you can not nofollow a link like  as it is not an <a href=""> is that not the case?</a>