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I came across that article when looking for an answer to this question. That is a great point though. Don't want to tell on ourselves here!

Thanks a lot for your help on this!

That is pretty much what I was thinking (and hoping). I just needed some confirmation.

Thanks so much for the help!

Different domains. So I would disavow at the domain level.

There are spammy links in my analysis. These dead links are some of them. If I go through the whole disavow process, it's recommended to get them all. I just don't know if dead pages or domains should be included.

We haven't gotten any warnings. We've seen some drop in traffic, but most rankings have held steady. The site has paid for links in the past, pre me of course.

and you are 100% confident they are causing issues with your site.

Can we really be 100% confident in anything SEO?

Yes, Dan, that is correct.

Either the page that contained a link to oursite.com from someothersite.com is gone or the whole site is gone yet they still show up as an external link to oursite.com.

If it was only a few I wouldn't worry about it but there are a lot like this, hundreds probably.

So, for links like these, would that be a use for the disavow tool?

These are external links. Can't 301 them.

I didn't explain that right. These are external links pointing to our site. These show up in GWT and OSE. I exported the external links from those two sources and ran them through an http status tool.

I haven't found a good answer to this yet. I know the whole "disavow" tool is still relatively new but we have a ton of dead links, actually most of the dead links are sites that have 404'd. Is it necessary to disavow these?

It looks like you have the canonical set to this page http://www.citcop.se/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw So you should be good there. That tells the SEs not to worry about the others.

This URL 404s http://www.citcop.se/panasonic/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

You could 301 the others by going to Catalog > click Add URL Rewrite > then choose Custom in the dropdown. However, it looks like http://www.citcop.se/varmepumpar-luft-luft/panasonic/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw is using the category structure in the URL and the category tree in the left nav. You could use that one as the canonical.

We don't use category paths for product URLs on our site, runs on Magento, so product URLs are flat - domain.com/product-path.html

You can set that under System > Catalog > Search Engine Optimizations > then set Use Categories Path for Product URLs to No.

It looks like you have the canonical set to this page http://www.citcop.se/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw So you should be good there. That tells the SEs not to worry about the others.

This URL 404s http://www.citcop.se/panasonic/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

You could 301 the others by going to Catalog > click Add URL Rewrite > then choose Custom in the dropdown. However, it looks like http://www.citcop.se/varmepumpar-luft-luft/panasonic/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw is using the category structure in the URL and the category tree in the left nav. You could use that one as the canonical.

We don't use category paths for product URLs on our site, runs on Magento, so product URLs are flat - domain.com/product-path.html

You can set that under System > Catalog > Search Engine Optimizations > then set Use Categories Path for Product URLs to No.

Different domains. So I would disavow at the domain level.

There are spammy links in my analysis. These dead links are some of them. If I go through the whole disavow process, it's recommended to get them all. I just don't know if dead pages or domains should be included.

We haven't gotten any warnings. We've seen some drop in traffic, but most rankings have held steady. The site has paid for links in the past, pre me of course.

and you are 100% confident they are causing issues with your site.

Can we really be 100% confident in anything SEO?