I'll PM you the sites I was looking at that don't have homepage links.
Still haven't gotten the PM yet. There is one site in the network that we are working on as there's a small glitch in the coding (I've known about this one), but all the others do have the links on the homepages.
Fair enough, but I'd put them in the sidebar. There have been multiple algo updates regarding ads and pushing content below the fold - the leaderboard at the top of the page pushes the content down.
I've read about and heard of this ago update actually. We have one single banner ad at the top. Not a slew of ads before the content appears. This algo update was for sites that have many multiple ads in the main content block. Our's is not like that whatsoever. So you're saying that every site that has a banner at the top will be penalized? I'm pretty sure that's not the case.