Disavowing a .edu

[KevinViner]

I have a backlink that I found from http://onucdm.onu.edu/mt/hmlref/2010/10/see_below.html . . . it is a nofollow, so it doesn't seem to be doing much harm. But this is obviously spam. It is from a .edu, so I'm not sure what I should do. Think it's harming my site at all? In general, how do you determine what to disavow?

[EGOL]

I would get in touch with the webmaster.  Let them know that they have been spammed.  They will probably take that page and other pages down.   They don't want this stuff on their website.

(I doubt that it is hurting your site.  But getting the page taken down will help the school and eliminate worry for you.)

[KevinViner]

Thanks so much --- I sent them a message, and won't worry about disavowing the link currently.

[Alick300]

Hi Kevin,

As you mentioned that link is nofollow so if link is nofollow there is no need to disavow them because "When a link is disavowed, the next time that Google crawls that link they essentially add an invisible nofollow tag to the link."

To know more on this please read Marie Haynes article @ http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2330944/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-googles-disavow-tool

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[KevinViner]

Very helpful as well --- thanks so much :).