SEO Consultant Wants to Disavow Organic Links
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Hi,
We're working with a SEO consultant. They made a second check of our inbound links and want to disavow some of the links that seems organic to me. They claim they're bad by their characteristics. Should we act as they suggest or not? Or should we run from them?;-)
Here are some links in question:
http://www.wowresource.eu/index.php?showtopic=14942 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080208070036AAE1ePo https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39144/visual-watermarkAll point to http://www.visualwatermark.com
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Hello there,
These are forum links, 99,9% sure from article spinning as I am on a soft penalty case for a new client as we speak and came up with the exact same links. The first one in an online gaming community for world of warcraft, totally irrelevant with your product and I highly doubt organic as you mention. Same goes for the 3rd one.
In regards to the yahoo forum, even if it was placed there organically, it is a nofollow link (<a <span="" class="webkit-html-attribute-name">href</a><a <span="" class="webkit-html-attribute-name">="</a>http://www.visualwatermark.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.visualwatermark.com/ ) so whether they remove it or not it doesnt really matter as it passes 0 link juice.
Hope this helps!
edit: I do not want to panic you by saying I am on a "soft penalty" case. The reason for the penalty was site wide links and in particular one domain pointing to one single page 250,000 times
and not the links mentioned above. I see only good in removing these links.