Disavow 401, 403, 410, 500, 502, 503
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Dear people,
I am cleaning my backlink profile and I am not sure if I should disavow links that drive you to a: 401, 403, 410, 500, 502, 503.
I do understand that since last Penguin update, it won't be necessary, but I would like to be sure about it. Any hints out there?
Thanks in advance
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I am still trying to decipher rather you're talking about them pointing to your site that resolves in these codes or if when you query the URLs or domains they are giving you these codes: 401, 403, 410, 500, 502, 503I still think that I need to see a little bit more information however if you are cleaning house and you have backlinks that resolve to dead domains and 404's etc. Please remember anyone can make these domains and URLs live anytime. so it is best to err on the side of caution and disavow spamming backlinks. whether or not they're coming from dead / 500 backlink or hitting your site with an unauthorized 401.( I have placed what the codes mean below in hopes that it may be of some help to you)Successful 2xx
- 200 Status OK
- 201 Created
- 202 Accepted
- 203 Non-Authoritative Information
- 204 No Content
- 205 Reset Content
- 206 Partial Content
Redirection 3xx
- 300 Multiple Choices
- 301 Moved Permanently
- 302 Found
- 303 See Other
- 304 Not Modified
- 305 Use Proxy
- 306 (Unused)
- 307 Temporary Redirect
Client Error 4xx
- 400 Bad Request
- 401 Unauthorized
- 402 Payment Required
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found
- 405 Method Not Allowed
- 406 Not Acceptable
- 407 Proxy Authentication Required
- 408 Request Timeout
- 409 Conflict
- 410 Gone
- 411 Length Required
- 412 Precondition Failed
- 413 Request Entity Too Large
- 414 Request-URI Too Long
- 415 Unsupported Media Type
- 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
- 417 Expectation Failed
Server Error 5xx
- 500 Internal Server Error
- 501 Not Implemented
- 502 Bad Gateway
- 503 Service Unavailable
- 504 Gateway Timeout
- 505 HTTP Version Not Supported
I hope this helps,Tom
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The only way to know would be to look at the links and your domai ( at the very least understand the type of Business you’re domains is)
If you’re willing to a put the here that would be awesome if not you can send them to me private message
If not I can place a URL that works for only one click and you add the URLs that way?
all the best,
tom
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