Should you bother disallowing low quality links with brand/non-commercial anchor text?

[spyaccounts14]

Hi Guys,

Doing a link audit and have come across lots of low quality web directories pointing to the website.

Most of the anchor text of these directories are the websites URL and not comercial/keyword focused anchor text.

So if thats the case should we even bother doing a link removal request via google webmaster tools for these links, as the anchor text is non-commercial?

Cheers.

[benesmartin]

Depends on how serious you are with your business Every link counts and even small change can cause rise in rankings. Especially if you operate on a competitive market.

[georgehal]

The answer here is: it depends. Are these links a little bit shaddy? Or they are just generic web directories. On occasion number #1 I would disallow them. On Occasion number #2 I would not. It is never bad to have more links as long as they do not negative-seo you