Domain has been redirected our site; but many incoming links from sub domain. Will this hurts?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

This is the scenario:

Our website is newwebsite.com. Our old website is oldwebsite.com which has been redirected to newwebsite.com (years back). But one of the old website's sub domain has a lot of back links to our current website like: seo.oldwebsite.com to newwebsite.com. Will this scenario hurts with any wrong linking?

Thanks

[GastonRiera]

Hello vtmoz,

That site's (seo.oldsite.com) backlinks are suitable for the new site? 
Rememer that if you've made a full redirection of the subdomain site to the root new domain, there will be tons of links pointing to that root domain.. and if those links dont share the topic nor are from good sources its probably that Google might penalyze you or just ignore them.

Monitor closely your rankings and the Search Console account for any manual penalty message.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.