A friend recently contacted me and said that he ran his retail site thru site-explorer and found that 90% of the backlinks from other domains were from porn related forums and blogs. So I set up a Goog webmaster account...they report that 92% of his backlinks are from porn related sites. His site is retail in a non-porn industry. Each link shows his URL as the anchor text. We have two questions: One, will he ever rank well for the search terms he's targeting given the large number of links from porn sites? And two, besides contacting each and every one of these sites to request removal of the link, does Goog and Yahoo offer any help in remedying this situation?
If they are one way links then he won't get penalized in any way as you can't control who links to you.