Still Battling On With Link Profile Audit

[TomKing]

I'm getting there, I can see the light!

I have covered one complete audit of the link profile and I am now going back over it looking at the links I had 'question marked' - I should have this completed by the end of this week and I will then focus on using DISAVOW for the links that I am really struggling with, the foreign sites that are in Chinese or Russian, the sites that have absolutely no 'contact us' information and have been privately registered (in WhoIs)

I have come across this domain which links to our site about 8 times and although I cannot find any contact info I can't quite make my mind up, to be honest I would rather get rid of it BUT I'm trying to avoid taking the easy option of disavowing where I can;

http://www.askives.com/

Fo anyone who has gone through what I am currently going through, please help me just this once and tell me 'should it stay or should it go'?!

Many thanks!

Andy

[Chris.Menke]

Add it to your disavow list and rock the Casbah : )

[neenor]

Just had a look at http://www.askives.com/ and it looks like a non-spammy, genuine site (albeit auto populated or similar). I'd leave the links there. They look genuine enough.

[Chris.Menke]

Not that they're likely to hurt you--or help you, for that matter--but if enough people disavow worthless sites like these, maybe we won't have to spend time wondering about them as we go through our link audits because they'll have been wiped off the map.

[Kingof5]

Remember to think towards the future when reviewing your links. A link might pass for Google right now, but is it something they'll consider spammy 6 months, 1 year, or 3 years down the line? If yes, get rid of it now and save yourself the extra work.

[neenor]

How does anyone know what will be spammy in 1 to 3 years? With that logic you might as well disavow all links.

[MarieHaynes]

Askives is one of those sites that appears on the backlink profile of almost every site I audit.  I put it in a category I call "not seo made" and just ignore it.  A good number of those Chinese and Russian sites are the same too.  You'll find a bunch that look like this.  They often have "alexa" in the url:

http://alexa.chinaz.com/

I don't disavow those or try to remove them.  Google is most interested in the links that are self made in an attempt to boost rankings.

Now, there are some Russian sites that I come across in link profiles that just have random spun text and anchor texted links.  For those, attempt to contact and if you can't find contact information, share that in your Google Docs spreadsheet so that the webspam team can see that you tried and then disavow it.

Good luck!