External Followed Links Over Time Nasty Drop HELP!

[megapixall]

I had someone help me with SEO and they basically used some stupid form to get back-links  I am still learning and have taken over my site to better do things right. I have had a major drop across the board since Panda and Pinguin and rightfully so from what I am seeing.

My question is: Google obviously removed the backlinks and SEO MOZ shows this in its report. Do I need to disavow these links still or can I just focus on link building properly? What is the best course of action here?

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[mihaiaperghis]

Hey francisco,

I'm not sure I understand, what do you mean when you say Google removed the backlinks? Google doesn't have control over websites that link to you (unless they're on Google's property, like the Blogger platform).

If the links (which, by the looks of that Moz report, were either on a big link network that was taken down or they were sitewide links on large websites) are actually gone, then there is no need to disavow them. Disavowing URLs/domains that have no links to you won't have any effect, even if they used to link to you in the past.

Hope this helps, cheers!

[megapixall]

Hello Mihai,

Bad choice of words on my part. I do not know if they are gone. How do I check this? From the looks of the report they are longer are there but do I need to do anything else? Will those old links continue to haunt me? Sorry for the questions

[Chris.Menke]

Francisco,

OSE won't always show all of your lowest quality links and what it does show may fluxuate.  In addition to OSE, take a look at links showing at majesticseo and ahrefs.com, and even your google webmaster tools to get a fuller picture of your back links and which you may want to disavow.