Doubt with no follow links: disavow or no action?

[teconsite]

We have a google penalty  (artificial links)

we have checked our link profile with link detox, and we found that a group of links that has no follow tag have been classified as toxic (stats websites mostly). But should we remove those links or what? They are no follow, it shoud be enough.

Should we include this links on the spreadsheet anyway? Should we include and add "no action taken"?

How would you proceed in that case?

Note: I know link detox is not great, but it helped us to collect data. But we have now to make decisions about the results, and I'm new on this and I have doubts. I would appreciate your help

Thank you!!!

[gazzerman1]

Don't worry about nofollow links.

The only time to be concerned is if there is a possibility they could be changed to dofollow in the future or that they exists as dofollow links elsewhere on the site.

There is no problem listing them in your disavow file, sometimes its safer to do this for a poor quality domain. Removing them is not necessary, it may speed the recovery process up by removing them if they were dofollow but as they are nofollow I would not bother.

[James77]

It really depend on what those 'no follow' links are. Generally they cannot hurt you, but if they are done in a manipulative way eg mass blog comments, and furthermore if they are on bad sites  -  then they can hurt you - see Matt Cutts video with more info on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEqypgIJME

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