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I am not an SEO master but personally, I think that disawowing these links would be ideal.  According to the Alexa Statistics this website is not that bad: Global rank of 237,621. However, I think that most of the site's content don't contain very important information. I mean the blogs don't have a valuable content. Having a link in this website might help you in certain ways but generally I don't think it's a good idea to have links on this website. Source: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hotel-online.com

Have to confess: Track, Test, Tweak, Repeat is legit. Similar to my Refine, Revise, Repeat for content creation and amplification. So often we hear that something or another didn't work, when in reality the brand or the individual either didn't optimize the experience for the desired outcome, didn't have clear, defined goals in place or lacked the ability to track the effort's performance. What I love about email is it's easy to track. From there, it's all about the TTR RS

My client had 17,500 links pointing to his site from Yellowpages.com and it caused a algorithm penalty to there local search results.  Here is a sample of the links. Now notice that each link contains a different city. My client city is Tacoma WA. We are positive this destroyed there NAP because they went from first place in the Google 3 Pac to not being the Google 3 pack at all, but for the same keyword they are number 3 in organics. When you go to Bing they still maintain there local search rankings. <a class="sort">Links</a> http://reliance.yellowpages.com/tacoma-wa/mip/phils-auto-care-8439833?lid=1001611723702[image: url_icon.png] http://solarus.yellowpages.com/tacoma-wa/mip/phils-auto-care-8439833?lid=1001612521758[image: url_icon.png] http://www.yellowpages.com/algona-wa/truck-service-repair[image: url_icon.png] http://www.yellowpages.com/arlington-wa/engine-rebuilding-exchange[image: url_icon.png] http://www.yellowpages.com/arlington-wa/mip/integrity-auto-care-480010482[image: url_icon.png] http://www.yellowpages.com/arlington-wa/mission-motors[image: url_icon.png] http://www.yellowpages.com/arlington-wa/semi-truck-repair[image: url_icon.png]

yeah i was going to suggest searching the code of the page for a link - just because you cant see it, it doesnt mean its not there. I have links from full stops before etc.

If you are allowing search engines to index all the pages, then the overall link equity is flowing through.

To echo the previous responses, rely on redirects to successfully migrate your site to HTTPS without any hitches. Afterall, security has been a top priority for Google and since they've called for HTTPS everywhere across the web, they're likely to reward those who stay up with the trends. Read more about it here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

Have a watch of the recent Whiteboard Friday from Marie Haynes - she tells you about many different tactics that can work. https://moz.com/blog/what-links-comply-googles-guidelines-whiteboard-friday I tend to advise others to steer clear of anything that goes against Google's TOS. If they catch up with it, you will get a nasty penalty. -Andy

I have had clients request to build two sites at once, launch them, and see which one is favored more in Google's eyes. Same thing with individual pages-- "G" seems to like one and bury the other. Building one on the side when the existing site is already indexed is probably going to be a risky venture.

A quality site tends to: Have quality, unique content that targets services, service areas, and has accurate meta data Adhere to mobile friendly guidelines Have good site speed Keep in mind that Google Penguin will penalize you if you have spammy links, so link building must be legitimate, too (and this is what helps DA and PA).

Thanks very much, everyone. I appreciate the in-depth thought. Ricardo

Glad to have been of some help. Good luck and happy hunting!

I'd still disavow these because you never know when those dead domains may come back online again. There is no disadvantage to disavowing spammy directories that no longer exist other than the time it takes to do so. With that said, however, it's not likely to make a significant difference to your rankings whether you leave these or disavow them.  In the past, these spammy domains had the possibility of causing your site to be suppressed by the Penguin algorithm. But when Google released Penguin 4.0 in September of 2016, Penguin no longer demotes. It simply stops counting any link metrics from spammy links. So why disavow? There are a few reasons: If you ever get a manual review of the website by the webspam team and you haven't disavowed you're at risk for getting an unnatural links penalty. You do NOT want that. -There are other algorithms outside of Penguin that look at links. We don't know much about them, but best to be safe rather than sorry. -Even though Google says they are simply not counting spammy links, I wouldn't want to trust their word completely and simply ignore spammy links.

Thank you for that suggestion. I believe the more keywords you rank for and the more traffic you get to your site, the higher your authority will be, and the easier it will be to rank for the KW's you want.

Google will still crawl and follow links on a page that has the tag "noindex" so long as it doesn't have the tag "nofollow". "nofollow" will tell Google not to pass any page authority / link juice. But if the page is just noindex'd, then Google will still pass link juice.

Contact them to remove the link to your home page. Most likely, they will not communicate back with you. So ALWAYS disavow those links.

I don't know what say, first now i try make better website speed, maybe buy HTTPS  but my competitors don't have this and  have good ranks position this is not solution i think. And last step is content, other no exist.

Thank you for your elaborate answer John, that helped!

Personally I wouldn't do it. No way. At the end of the day this would be very clearly against Google's terms (not to mention low-quality work), so effectively you'd be placing a bet with your site's reputation on if Google's engineers successfully catch you. If it's a business that wants to do well in the long term online, I wouldn't take the risk of a bet like that against someone like Google, who have 'one or two' decent engineers actively trying to catch this sort of thing. Pattern spotting is likely to catch you out and end up with you in hot water, it's just not worth the risk (in my opinion). As John points out, for a churn & burn website this may work I guess (not something I'd be involved in tbh!), but at the end of the day if you get caught, you're a bit screwed... Plus it'd just be contributing to more crappy content out there on the web - not something any of us need!

Like Sean said, running an OSE report on the domain could help get some metrics. The problem though is that it's likely that there are domains disavowed that are not in the Moz list of backlinks for that site. Ahrefs does have a bulk upload of urls/domains that you can do and get metrics back. That might be useful. With that said, however, I rarely make disavow decisions based on metrics alone. I'd want to see the link itself. Still, I think what you're trying to do is trim the list down so that you can manually review links that are potentially good. A little shameless self plug here...my disavow blacklist tool might help. I've got tens of thousands of domains in my blacklist that I almost always disavow. You can run a domain across my tool here. I have a paid version of the tool that would allow you to upload the entire list of domains that are in your disavow file and it will give you a CSV of which ones are blacklisted by me. You can find that here. There are some domains that are whitelisted on my bulk disavow upload such as ones that link out to everyone like aboutus.org or alexa and others. You could then just look at the domains that are not on my blacklist/whitelist. That could give you a smaller list to sort through.