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Thanks so much Brent . Really appreciate your time. Will get onto this

Hey Brent sorry each answer seems to lead to another question. Last one

when you say  "Then start the cleanup of inbound links." Could you point me in the direction i need to look into doing this?

Cheers

Hey Brent, cheers as i thought.

I already have webmaster tools there are 186 crawl errors under not found and 7 under mobile not found. Do i need to apply to have all of these removed? Will this remove these spammy backlinks.

Also hope you dont mind one more question.

My domains are currently structured like this www.mydomain.com/index.php/page-alias

I want to change them to this format www.mydomain.com/folder/page-alias.htm

Seeing that 95% of my backlinks are to my homepage  would not change and the site doesn't rank on many keywords except the brand am i right in thinking  now id a good time to make this change with a view as a starting point for my SEO

Does this make sense?

Thanks very much

awesome thank you, i have replied via email

Hi there, I have  fairly large site that has never really been optimised. I think an old forum i hosted has either been spammed or my webmaster at the time used some black hat techniques to get me more root linking domains. I am a newbie and would really appreciate if someone could just quickly look at my donain and confirm that this is a problem and something i should fix before i start my SEO campaign. I am also worried this will negatively effect my domain authority.

I dont really want to broadcast my domain so if anyoone would be so kind to confirm the problem so i cant start to research the answer.

Thanks v much