Large sites linking to us in their menu

[evansluke]

Hello,

I am digging in to our in-links in WMT and notice that we have a number of sites that link to us in their menu or every page on their site, making for hundreds of thousands of links to our site. Here is an example: 
http://www.askthebookie.com/ (in the topmost  right menu there is a link to our forums) http://www.covers.com/postingforum/

There are about a dozen or so sites that link to our homepage tens-of-thousands of times. Should I disavow them, or is this be viewed as a legitimate link?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[RyanPurkey]

This doesn't look like a manipulative or paid link on your part, but is in the correct section on a relevant domain  and in proximity to other forums on the same topic. It should be fine.

Are you trying to deal with a manual action in your GWT account?

[evansluke]

Was going to disavow them but have reached out and asked for a nofollow on the menu because they do have some legitimate mentions in their forums that are worth preserving.

We actually have no manual actions against us, but we do have some links that are very dodgy ( like the 6.4 million links from these paragons of virtue: http://ebetsports.com/). I am trying to stay on top of it before we get the call. We also have what I would consider a low DA versus our competitors, since we are a 20+ year old domain, so I am stripping the low hanging fruit while trying to get back to basic 'average' SEO.