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Thanks Tom. Sure that helps.

Thanks Peter. The landing page (for all these image links) does not give any more information per se. Having said that, the landing page informs the user about how to proceed in case they need more information.

To elaborate - the landing page details what the user will get once he subscribes to the product. The product is then delivered via email once the user signs up. So I would like to keep the images/call to action button so the user can know how he can get more information which is not available unless he goes to the landing page and signs up.

I am tempted to keep the images as is. One more thing, I can actually put a no-follow on all images as I am not trying to promote the landing page. The images in my opinion are really meant to make navigation easy. But I am worried with this whole 1000+ image buttons guiding to the same landing page.

Recently, an SEO told me about a problem with my site architecture. Before I take any action, I would like some advice on this. May be this is basic for may people who read this.

My e-commerce site has over 400 pages - all of which are regularly updated. I sell 4 products and all 400 pages have an image (which says "subscribe now") clicking on which gets the user to the subscription/payment page. Many pages have 3 images on the same page (mostly because these pages are huge with more than 2000 words on each page and they require a lot of scrolling down, so we placed the "subscribe now" button at the top, middle and end of page).

Now effectively this means that there are over 1000+ images pointing to the subscription/ payment page. (1) I have been told that I should either remove these or put a "nofollow" on these images/subscribe now buttons. Should I do either?

Similarly, I have a legal disclaimer at the end of each page with a link to a detailed disclaimer page (this appears once under each page) followed by a standard boilerplate language (which I think will be about 15% of the total page content).

(2) Should I use image for the language instead? Does it count as duplicity of content?

Note: All redirects and pages are on the same/ my own domain.

Most helpful David. Thanks for that.

I had the similar views. Really reassuring to get this from you. I'll take the liberty of asking another one which has bothered me recently - I have my site "www.abc.com". I also have a blog "www.bolg.abc.com" Do you think the bad links of the main site could in any way have a negative impact on the blog?

Also - Any experience on how long does google take to factor in the disavow?

Thanks again

Rajat

I am a site owner just getting to learn more about managing things myself after outsourcing SEO to a firm a year back (they stopped all activities about 8 months back).

The question I have is about disavowing the low quality links. After collecting all the data from many sites on the basis of this helpful posting - (http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal), I am now left with around 2,800 back-links. I discovered most of the bad ones using ahrefs and majestic (and Google webmaster did not show many of the bad links). In fact, in the very first place, I realized that there was a spam  problem when I saw the anchor cloud on ahrefs which showed many unrelated anchors for my site.

I have three questions:

**First, **Many URL's are actually from websites which have nothing to do with my line of business and I can sure spot them. What I get confused with is this - I can not say that these sites are downright spam. Some of them look to be good sites for example - a coffee machine vendor (with full business details and a fairly decent looking business), a Nike sports shoes mart etc. But they have nothing to do with my business.

So my first question is - What is spam really? Would a back link from a high ranking website in the travel industry be considered spam from the point of view of someone who runs a website for medical equipment, specially if the back-link is from an unrelated anchor text like - "3 nights travel package" (which has nothing to do with medical business). I think I should disavow all the low quality back links with an erroneous anchor but Id like some views on this.

Second, I see that in the disavow file, one could either upload a whole domain or a specific URL (could somebody please confirm this). I have some sites which have 8-12 (more in some cases) back links to my site. In most cases these sites are either really bad quality or have nothing to do with my business. I am tempted to disavow the entire domain for such sites instead of going by the URL's. Any views?

Third, this is what I'd really like some help with. In case I delete the very pages (on my site) to which these back links point, should I still disavow the pointing domain?

Finally: I have not created most of these backlinks. In fact, over the last 2-3 months we have started creating links from good sites in my industry. Most of the anchor cloud is good for me on ahrefs but there are these bad ones to which my question relates. I have not got any manual penalty from Google, though my traffic I think took a hit in the first week of October 2013.