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  • SolveWebMedia
    SolveWebMedia Subscriber last edited by Mar 12, 2022, 8:51 AM

    Hi all,

    I have a ski website that I am currently performing a toxic backlink audit on. I have noted that a lot of the links being flagged as toxic/spammy by the tool I am using seem to be the same/similar sites with different URLs. The sites are vaguely related to skiing (relating to helicopter travel options for travelling to ski resorts) but it is concerning me that there are so many of them and they are being flagged as so toxic.
    Do you think it is worth disavowing these? Or contacting the owner to ask them to remove the link?

    I have included an example of some of the links below.

    https://www.cannes-helicopters.co.uk/index.php?menuopen=21&showcontent=5
    https://nice-helicopter.co.uk/index.php?menuopen=21&showcontent=5
    https://monaco-helicopter.co.uk/index.php?menuopen=21&showcontent=5

    Slightly different site but same favicon icon:
    https://monaco-helicopter.co.uk/index.php?menuopen=21&showcontent=5
    https://www.whitetracks-holidays.com/Helicopter_Transfers_Villars_Switzerland.htm

    Thanks in advance for any advice / help!

    CraigyT 1 Reply Last reply Mar 13, 2022, 10:28 PM Reply Quote 0
    • SolveWebMedia
      SolveWebMedia Subscriber @pau4ner last edited by Mar 17, 2022, 9:06 AM

      @pau4ner Thanks!

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      • pau4ner
        pau4ner last edited by Mar 15, 2022, 9:40 PM

        I wouldn't worry too much about disavowing those links. Lots of websites receive this kind of links every day, as they come from scraping websites which essentially copy/spin your content. This is why it seems to you that these are the same sites with different URLs. Google is pretty good at flagging them as spam so they don't hurt/don't benefit you either. I never worry about these and I have pretty good rankings with my websites/client's websites.

        Hope that helps!

        SolveWebMedia 1 Reply Last reply Mar 17, 2022, 9:06 AM Reply Quote 1
        • CraigyT
          CraigyT @mpc2222 last edited by Mar 15, 2022, 3:55 AM

          @mpc2222 Depends if you can be bothered to do it or not I suppose.

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          • mpc2222
            mpc2222 last edited by Mar 14, 2022, 10:18 PM

            Is it really worth disavowing links? Surely Google knows which links are likely to be the subject of any disavow list? Just seems like a lot of effort on top of an already unlimited workload

            CraigyT 1 Reply Last reply Mar 15, 2022, 3:55 AM Reply Quote 0
            • CraigyT
              CraigyT @SolveWebMedia last edited by Mar 14, 2022, 9:38 PM

              @solvewebmedia A lot of people will tell you it's pointless to disavow the links unless your site has received some kind of manual penalty. I think it's always best to keep your links organized but it can become quite tedious doing this so I use SemRush to see if any toxic sites are linking to mine and if they are I disavow them right away. My site was showing some toxic backlinks. The site is in the hacking niche and we regularly get some users sharing links in places like Tor and low-quality blogger style sites however we can't really dictate where the user shares these links so I use SEMRush it gives you an indication of any backlink that is toxic or indicators of what other SEMRush users added to their lists. I looked into a couple of these domains further and they had been deindexed by Google even though Google ignores or devalues them links I still wanted to add them to my Disavow list so other users in SEMRush could see the indicators and disavow these links early on.

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              • SolveWebMedia
                SolveWebMedia Subscriber @CraigyT last edited by Mar 14, 2022, 7:59 AM

                @craigyt Thanks for the advice!

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                • CraigyT
                  CraigyT @SolveWebMedia last edited by Mar 13, 2022, 10:28 PM

                  @solvewebmedia Almost certainly the sites you mention are riddled with spam scores often spam score is a good indicator of a high toxicity score. If it was me I would disavow them Google often ignores any low-quality links just encase your domain was subject to a spam SEO attack. That's why the disavow tools come in perfect.

                  SolveWebMedia 1 Reply Last reply Mar 14, 2022, 7:59 AM Reply Quote 0
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