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    • SirMax
      SirMax last edited by

      Hello guys,

      Do you think it is worth disvowing scrappers' links on otherwise good linking profile.

      Sites like

      Webmaster tools shows that sites like:

      • mrwhatis.net,
      • askives.com
      • prlog.ru
      • bigbozz.com
      • answerparty.com
      • wordexplorer.com

      scrape our content and generated from 10 to 90 links to our pages.

      Is removing these links waste of my time?

      Thanks

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      • WilliamKammer
        WilliamKammer last edited by

        I make sure to disavow these as well. No need to disavow each link individually, just knock out the whole domain in the disavow.

        This became common practice for me once I had to clean up a manual action penalty that wouldn't go away until the scrapers were disavowed.

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        • Berner
          Berner last edited by

          I would disavow them. It seems like Google wants the cleanest backlink profile possible.

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          • SirMax
            SirMax @WilliamKammer last edited by

            Thanks

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            • SirMax
              SirMax @Berner last edited by

              Thanks

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              • MarieHaynes
                MarieHaynes last edited by

                I'm going to respectfully disagree with the answers already given.  I ignore these links and do not disavow them.  Every site has them.

                The point of the disavow file is to tell Google not to count links that you have personally made for SEO purposes.  You didn't make these links and I don't believe that Google wants you to disavow them.  There's no harm in doing so but personally I ignore them.

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