Spammy backlinks
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I am very new to this site and need some help. I have two spammy backlinks in my report that were done by my host provider as I hired them for SEO. When I click on the web site there is no where to contact them. I can only subscribe to their group and I sure don't want to do that. Is having two ranking as an 8+ awful. I don't know if I should do the Disavow route or not.
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How do I know if they are followed or nofollowed? I really don't know much about the whole disavowing process except what I've read from the links through Moz. I also haven't contacted the host company since they're the ones that put it there I am a little concerned with having them take it off but I guess it's worth a try?
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Just to check, are the links nofollowed or followed? If they are nofollowed, don't worry about it - you won't need to disavow.
As already pointed out, there is no harm going to come from disavowing them, but if you do, make sure you disavow from a domain level rather than just a page. This will ensure that no more links can sneak in from that domain in the future.
-Andy
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I agree with Russ here and there are two important reasons for this
- You don’t have any place from where you can contact the webmaster
- Disavow will tell Google that you don’t need a link juice from these websites and disavowing them (as Russ said) isn’t going to hurt your rankings in anyway.
Hope this helps!
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I would definitely disavow. It isn't going to hurt you to disavow these links and you might as well get started at building a healthy, regularly updated disavow file. Unfortunately, this is a part of modern day-to-day SEO.
Have you reached out to the hosting provider to have the links removed?
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