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Hello All,

First of all I would like to thank everybody here for sharing such great knowledge with such amazing and heartfelt passion.It really is good to see. Thank you.

My story / question:

I recently sold a site with more than 100k pages indexed in Google. I was allowed to keep links on the site.These links being actual anchor text links on both the home page as well on the 100k news articles. On top of that, my site syndicates its rss feed (Just links and titles, no content) to this page.

However, the new owner made a mess, and now the site could possibly be seen as bad linking to my site. Google tells me within webmasters that this particular site gives me more than 400K backlinks.

I have NEVER received one single notice from Google that I have bad links. That first.

But, I was worried that this page could have been the reason why MY site tanked as bad as it did. It's the only source linking so massive to me.

Just a few days ago, I got in contact with the new site owner. And he has taken my offer to help him 'better' his site.

Although getting the site up to date for him is my main purpose, since I am there, I will also put effort in to optimizing the links back to my site.

My question:

What would be the best to do for my 'most SEO gain' out of this?

The site is a news paper type of site, catering for news within the exact niche my site is trying to rank. Difference being, his is a news site, mine is not. It is commercial.

Once I fix his site, there will be regular news updates all within the niche we both are in. Regularly as in several times per day. It's news. In the niche.

Should I leave my rss feed in the side bars of all the content?

Should I leave an achor text link on the sidebar (on all news etc.)

If so: there can be just one keyword... 407K pages linking with just 1 kw??

Should I keep it to just one link on the home page?

I would love to hear what you guys think.

(My domain is from 2001. Like a quality wine. However, still tanked like a submarine.)

ALL SEO reports I got here are now Grade A. The site is finally fully optimized.

Truly nice to have that confirmation. Now I hope someone will be able to tell me what is best to do, in order to get the most SEO gain out of this for my site.

Thank you.