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    • RistoM
      RistoM last edited by

      Hi,

      I am doing link cleaning, and still a bit new to this, and would appreciate the community's help 🙂

      So, I have a site which has quite a lot of low DA (or no DA) follow backlinks. BUT,

      • the links are from my niche
      • the sites are not spammy
      • the anchors are okay
      • and they are from good Geo location for me

      The only negative thing is that these sites are a bit "dead" meaning that there is no new content, and thus there is no traffic or clicks coming from them.

      Should I keep those links or disavow them?

      To me these links are natural, but do they help me at all....

      FYI I have plenty of good DA links. But what do you guys think, if I disavow all these low DA backlinks, does Google think that I am trying to manipulate my backlink structure to look better than it naturally is?

      Cheers guys and girls! 🙂

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      • RistoM
        RistoM @GastonRiera last edited by

        Thanks Gaston! Good to keep this in mind.

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        • GastonRiera
          Gaston Riera @RistoM last edited by

          I don't think that Moz doesn't care about when the content was published.
          Keep in mind that Moz and Ahref mostly weight and analyze their backlink profile, thus it's possible that they haven't discovered any backlinks and their metrics can be low.

          Hope it helps.
          Best luck.
          GR

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          • RistoM
            RistoM @GastonRiera last edited by

            Thanks Gaston for your response!

            It sure helps in decision making.I guess I'll just filter and disavow really spammy backlinks with viagra and other medicine anchor texts.

            Yeah, I have also noticed big differences with different tools. Quite often for example Ahrefs gives 0 DR and 0 UR, and Moz gives 25 DA and 12 PA on the same domain / url. This has been the case quite often with some old blogs with no updates in couple years. Maybe Moz doesn't care when was the latest content added to the site. Or maybe Ahrefs gives much less value to sites which don't get new content, and puts the score down much more.

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            • GastonRiera
              Gaston Riera last edited by

              Hi Risto,

              Google said it many times that they are pretty good at detecting bad links thus they encourage us to disavow links only when a manual penalty has hit your site or when you dont trust Google's algorithms and/or do know that those links are really hurting you.

              That said, my personal opinion, don't bother at all. 
              Also, please keep in mind that private metrics as PA, DA, TF, CF or whatever do not reflect what google sees. Those companies with their algorithms try to simulate what Google understands so don't fully rely on them.

              Hope this helps.
              Best luck.
              GR

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