Disavowing Affiliate Links - Domain or Actual Affiliate Link?

[Brett-S]

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all having a great day, I have a question in regards to a site which I am about to disavow.

Over the past 2 months a certain page of ours has dropped from the 2nd page, all the way to the 7th. I haven't been able to diagnose why, however, yesterday I discovered that a site has been using an Lafitte link on his sidebar, the link is a do-follow. Webmaster tools indicates that this site has linked to us over 24,000 times.

I understand that this link could potentially ruin our rankings - however, in terms of disavowing, what is the best approach here? Do I disavow their domain, or do I disavow the actual affiliate link also? The link is placed within an image, once  the image is clicked it redirects you to another link for a second then redirects to our money site.

We have got in touch with our affiliate program and they have made the link a no-follow, however, we are pretty certain this site is causing issues for us and we want to go ahead and disavow.

Thanks, Brett

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I would disavow the link as well as the domain, especially if Google is listing it in Search Console. This is two lines of code in your file so it shouldn't take a long time at all.

But, that being said - is this website a site that you would want a link, ie relevant to your industry, topical, authoritative, and useful for your audience? If no, then there is no point in having the link and I would ask your affiliate program to remove this link all together from the site. If it is relevant, I would see what options they have for a proper placement that's not directly spamming or abusing Google's linking guidelines.

Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions. Good luck!
Patrick

[Brett-S]

Thanks for the contribution Patrick - I am gonna go ahead and disavow the domain, as well as the affiliate link.