How to ignore spam links to page?

[WongNs]

Hey Moz pals,

So for some reason someone is building thousands of links to my websites (all spam), likely someone doing negative seo on my site.

Anyway, all these links are pointing to 1 sub url on my domain. That url didn't have anything on it so I deleted the page so now it comes up with a 404. Is there a way to reject any link that ever gets built to that old page? I don't want all this spam to hurt my website. What do you suggest?

[KeriMorgret]

The disavow tool could be quite helpful in something like this. We've written a post about it earlier this year at http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool, which can help provide some background information.

[MarieHaynes]

If they're all pointing to one url and you've 404'd the url then you've got nothing to worry about.  These links will not count.

Here's more info: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2296653/Removing-Unnatural-Links-by-Removing-Pages-on-Your-Website