Website has a barrage of comment backlinks from 2011

[nhhernandez]

When Google rolled out Panda and Penguin, I assume these links have been discounted and any site punishment has already happened. The website is performing well, however, just recently these comment backlinks have started popping up again as "new" backlinks on Ahrefs. Being "newly-found", will this have a negative impact on the website? Should we be worried about these and start disavowing or is it OK to ignore them? Thanks.

[TucsonAZWebDesign]

I just read an article that had a good strategy for deciding whether or not to disavow by Amanda DiSilvestro. I thought it was pretty on point:

https://www.seoblog.com/2017/07/signs-disavow-link-site/

Btw very beautiful site! I'm impressed!

[ThompsonPaul]

Those comment links are almost certainly already no-followed, Nikki. So not much point in worrying about disavow at this point.

Also - the fact that AHREF seems to be rediscovering them just means their own crawler data may have changed. Doesn't likely reflect any change in Google's awareness and understanding of those links.

Hope that helps?

Paul

[nhhernandez]

Great article, thanks for sharing!

[nhhernandez]

Yes, thank you very much!