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    • cbielich
      cbielich last edited by

      Would you count them as spammy and disavow?

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        cbielich @MattRoney last edited by

        thanks man

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        • MattRoney
          MattRoney @PatrickDelehanty last edited by

          Oh yeah, definitely agree. But it's spammy because it's spammy, not because it isn't indexed.

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          • PatrickDelehanty
            PatrickDelehanty @cbielich last edited by

            Hi again

            Yeah, if this is representative of the other links, you should definitely look into those and either remove/disavow them.

            That's just my two cents!

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            • cbielich
              cbielich @MattRoney last edited by

              Correct, they are not indexed and they are by far spam just looking at them. Here is an example of one

              http://beach.speedy.ch/joomdocs/FREE-SCRABBLE-DICTIONARY.htm

              I know its spammy, I was just wondering what others thought

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              • MattRoney
                MattRoney last edited by

                Hi Cesar!

                Some folks may disagree, but I'd say they're only spammy if they're spammy. 🙂 Not being indexed doesn't necessarily mean they're spam.

                I assume you mean they're not indexed in Google, correct? Not that they're not indexed in Open Site Explorer?

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                • PatrickDelehanty
                  PatrickDelehanty last edited by

                  Hi there

                  It really depends on the link.

                  The best way to define a bad link is to use your own intuition and common sense:

                  • Does this link help my website?
                  • Is this link relevant to my website?
                  • Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it?
                  • Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website?
                  • If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy?

                  I would go through a backlink audit - what needs to be removed / disavowed? Start there and assess. Truthfully, if the site is not indexed, it's not that big of a deal. I would just make sure that's it's relevant and a good link, because it could send traffic.

                  Hope this helps! Good luck!

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