1000's Backlinks from ONE Root Domain - Positive or negative?

[Ishrat-Khan]

One of my website's link is placed over a comment. This website has a "recent comments" section in the footer which is hence appearing on all the websites pages. All tools including - Google Search Console, Majestic and MOZ are showing 45000+ links from that root domain.

Questions:

1. Are these links harmful to my rankings?
2. Should I get all those links disavowed?
3. Should I disavow the root domain or leave the link that lies on the home page?
4. What if there are up to 10 links coming from a domain? is that harmful too?
5. Apart from disavowing, is there any other option to get this fixed? If at all this counts as an issue...

Thanks in advance!!

[DickensLawGroup]

Had the same question, these answers are helpful, thanks!

[Ishrat-Khan]

Thanks!

[Ishrat-Khan]

Thank you for the response. Though we do not have many such instances in our backlink profile, to be on the safer side I resolved this by getting those comments deleted. Contacting the Webmasters proved to be of help.

Now, until the entire Directory website gets reindexed those backlinks would still show up for my website. But as you said, Google understands...

Your answer resolved my query well. Thanks again!!

[ChrisAshton]

Assuming you've only got one instance like this, search engines are typically smart enough these days to see this is an anomaly rather than a pattern of intentional spam.

It wouldn't be the worst idea to disavow them I suppose but if it were my site, I wouldn't worry about it. On the other hand, if you have a number of instances where this is happening, I'd look to address that quite quickly.

Google understands that weird things like this can happen to all of us and they can't be judging everyone by the individual links or perceived actions. As a perfect example of this, my latest client has never done any form of digital marketing. Looking at their backlink profile they have 7 quality, natural backlinks and 2 Polish spam/scraper sites in their backlink profile. They can't help having their site scraped, just like you can't control the structure of that site you have 45k links from

[Alick300]

Hi,

Please check below article and you will get answer of your query.

https://moz.com/community/q/how-many-backlinks-from-one-domain

https://moz.com/community/q/too-many-backlinks-from-one-domain

Thanks