Backlink density & disavow tool

[devoted2vintage]

I am cleaning up my backlink profile for www.devoted2vintage.co.uk but before I start removing links I wanted some advice on the following:

I currently have over 2000 backlinks from about 200 domains. Is this a healthy ratio or should I prune this?

Is there a recommended max number of backlings per domain?

Should I delete links to all or some of the spun PR articles (some of the article web pages have over 40 articles with links back to us)

[Debdulal]

Ok do a thing. First figure it out what type of links they are - directories, social book mark, article submission sites, RP sites ..

_Once you are done, you need to sort them via PR and look at the anchor texts. If they are exact matched keywords, you need to get rid of them, do not do anything with natural anchor texts like click here, website name etc. _

_Look at the quality of the sites from where the links are coming.. check their moz rank, check the quality of the content of the website... if they score bad in all these fronts, just get them removed and you will just be fine .. _

[devoted2vintage]

THanks, I have created a spreadsheet of all the backlinks. How should I determine if they are causing harm?

[Debdulal]

Hi,

_Do not delete all the links. You need to figure it out which links are causing harm to your website and which links are rather adding some value. Sometimes, you just to make changes in the anchor texts, no need to remove the links completely. So have an excel file, and get all the links there. Check them manually whether they are detrimental to the visibility of the website or not. So, do not press the panic button; analyze the links first before you remove them all. _

[UnderRugSwept]

I just visited www.devoted2vintage.co.uk and the MOZ Bar said your home page has 4.992 links from 228 root domains.

There is no recommended max number of links per domain that I know of. If those sites are linking to you in a natural way, then there isn't a problem. If a lot of them have your site's link site wide, then I'd look into doing something about that.

I would delete links from anything spun, but beyond that, if you don't yet have a Google penalty, don't go too overboard. Some times people get overly paranoid and delete links that aren't hurting them.