Links from Domain Portfolio Advertising Sites
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I recently purchased a domain from a someone with a large portfolio and my site's link is still found on thousands of his one page/low quality sites. I find these links on Open Site Explorer but not in WT. Should I ask the portfolio owner to remove the link from his low quality domain advertising sites?
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How clean do you want your new domain to be? What percentage of the total inbound link profile comes from that network? How relevant are the relationships between the pages those links are on and the pages on your domain they point to?
If the answer to any of those falls within the realm of "polluted" or "over-saturated", I'd ask to get those links removed. While Google does a fair job of devaluing bad links, and they're getting better all the time, if it's a majority of your profile, it's still a red flag that the site is, at the very least, on shaky ground, or built on a house of cards.
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Depends how many outgoing links these sites have if they only have a limited number of out going links I would just keep it imo.
Limited number been under 15...
If they have around 50-100 links on each site then yes it may not be advisable.
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