Paid Link/Doorway Disavow - disavowing the links between 2 sites in the same company.

[BobGW]

Hello,

Three of our client's sites are having difficulty because of past doorway/paid link activity, which we're doing the final cleanup on with a disavow.

There are links between the sites. Should we disavow all the links between the sites?

Thank you.

[GlobeRunner]

I'm not sure if I totally understand your question. Can you explain what type of doorway/paid link activity you're referring to?

You need to evaluate each link, one by one. If the link is a good, natural link, then I wouldn't disavow it. If that link is a sponsored link or paid link, then you might consider adding a nofollow link attribute. If it's something that violates Google's Webmaster Guidelines for linking, then you should remove the links, not just disavow them.

[BobGW]

I see.

I guess the question is whether to nofollow them and disavow them both. They had a spammy footer linking everything together, got rid of the footer, and kept a few of the links except transferred them to the body content somewhere.

Make sense?