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Thanks for the help Shane!

Thanks for the answer Ben. We went ahead and tested it both ways and found that the text did better than the logo.

I have recently seen a few competitors using rel=author to markup their homepage.

I don't want to follow suit if it is outside of Google's search quality guidelines. But I've seen very little on this topic, so any advice would be helpful.

Thanks!

Would you ever wrap a Logo in an H1 tag? The logo is an image, but is in an area that would cause it to make the most sense when forming my page into a proper hierarchy format.

Thanks in advance for any help!

It was a two letter domain and we acquired it for branding purposes, not for the links.

No, but we acquired this domain and 301'd it to our main domain and acquired all of it's link spam in the process. It's made our link profile look like this:

• Foreign Character Spam: 69%
• Natural Links: 7%
• Tag/archive links: 6%
• Other: 6%
• Feeds: 5%
• Affiliate: 4%
• Guest Post: 3%

There's been very minimal cases of link farms, but the link profile is what is worrying me.

I recently acquired a domain and the previous owners practiced some very shady link practices. The current backlink profile is flooded with link spam with foreign anchor text, amongst links from spam directories.

What are some good practices to help clean up the backlink profile of this domain so it will not hurt me in the long run?

Thanks again John!

Thanks for the reply. To clarify, we're not trying to hide the page, we're trying to reduce the number of on-page links as to not overly exceed the recommended 100.

Since we already have these links within our navigational tabs at the top of the page, we're not sure if it would be useful to no-follow the footer links to reduce the number of total links on the page. However, I don't want the page to look unnatural by having an unruly balance of no followed to followed links.

I have been getting errors for too many on-page links. All the major navigation pages are found in links within the navigation tabs and are identical to the footer links. So my question is, would nofollowing the footer look unnatural and throw off the balance between followed and nofollowed links on the site and negatively effect SEO?

Thanks for the comment Brendan.

Thanks for the info. This is for the VA site.

Recently after checking my backlink profile, my site has attracted quite a few spam backlinks with the anchor text written in Asian characters. We don't do any black-hat tactics and have remained clean in our process, as well as not submitted our site to any spam directories, yet we still have these foreign links. Any thoughts on how to get rid of these or stop these from occurring?