I have links coming from spammy sites that DO NOT exist anymore... Disavow or not?

[AutoEurope]

Hi There !!!

I´m cleaning the link profile of one of our sites and making the typical analysis I have found the following scenario:

• All SEO tools that helped me to gather the data (WMT, opensite, majestic) are showing me that I have links coming from spammy sites that actually are not online any more. In other words, the spammy site where the link is coming is not alive (when I try to check the page itself I´m having a 404 or domain expired).

My main question is…  Should I disavow these domains links? or should I simply ignore them?

We got an unnatural penalty and we are doing the whole proccess (checking sites, contacting, etc….).

Many Thanks for your help

[TimHolmes]

I suppose it would depend on how long the sites remain in the index and also in the cache.

I would probably suggest still adding them to the disavow file if you really want rid of these detrimental links.

[ColeLusby]

I think this can be a straight forward answer.

is the website spammy or provide no value (just a list of websites for example)?

If so, disavow. But I don't think this is a big problem. If you're cleaning it up, clean up those that are spammy, not just 404s or non existent domains.

I hope this helps.

Cole

[Jon_B]

There is no value in not disavowing those spammy links. I would disavow every poor link that you can find linking to your site. That way, google won't be confused as they don't always crawl the deal links (if they still show up in serp)