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    • Nightwing
      Nightwing last edited by

      Buon Giorno from 2 degrees C thick fog wetherby UK 🙂

      On this site www.davidclick.com I ran a crawl test and came across a url that doesnt exist in my site, the findings are illustrated here:

      http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/rogue-urlcopy_zps6c58ee46.jpg

      The plot thickens... the source of the referring traffic to a page that doesnt exist can be seen here:

      http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/rogue-link-source_zpsc70a34fc.jpg

      My intial thoughts rae to disavow via this tool:
      https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

      So my question is please:

      Is this sinister or should I just sit back drink a cup of horlicks and return to a Zen like status of inner peace?

      Any insights welcome 😉

      Grazie tanto,

      David

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      • Nobody1560986989723
        Nobody1560986989723 last edited by

        Get your cup of Horlicks and get your sense of peace sorted. Regardless of action points, never knee jerk!

        The broken link just seems to be a non-functioning mailto: link rather than a page link, as such. I could be wrong but that's my impression.

        I would be tempted to put a 301 redirect onto your site redirecting that link to your contact page thus

        • capturing the user and giving them helpful information and
        • pointing the link to a fairly 'safe' location

        That gives you time to maybe do a bit of digging into TopicWorld.net, see if it's real community or spammy forum, so you can then decide whether a disavow is needed. If you decide you don't want the link then I suggest you try to get it removed manually first as disavow can take weeks/months to come into effect.

        Hope this helps.

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