Should I consider webmaster tools links and linked pages ratio to remove unnatural links?

[Godad]

I don't know this is a suitable place for post this question. Anyway I have done it.

According to the Google webmaster tools, Links to your site page. My blog has considerable amount of links, from linked pages (from certain domain names). For an instance please refer following screenshot.

When I am removing unnatural links, should I consider these, links from linked pages ratio?

Almost all of these sites are social bookmarking sites. When I publish a new bookmark on those sites, they automatically add a homepage link. As a result of that, I got a huge number of home page links from linked pages.

What is your recommendation?

Thanks!

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[Njave_MCP]

Honestly this is an issue we all come across. My biggest concert was always these bookmarking websites scraping content, so you end up with 50-60 domains with bookmarking services serving exact same content, linking to your site with thousands of links that hold no real value.

From what I see both sites have the same way of doing things with a ton of articles with direct name anchor texts in the title. Do you really need it? Does it help your community in any way with regards to your website performing better? Will you attract any new readers from those sites?

Are you removing manually (eg. asking owner to remove them from the sites) or are you using the disavow tool to handle it? Thanks!

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Howdy,

The big question is whether or not these links are actually "unnatural." If they are there because of overly-aggressive social booking marking, they may be considered unnatural and you may consider removing them.

Unfortunately, search engines never tell us exactly what links are bad or which are good. Social bookmarking links aren't necessarily good or bad by themselves, but often it depends on the anchor text - lots of exact match anchor text is usually a sign of unnatural linking.

Paddy Moogan wrote a good post on finding low-quality links that I highly recommend: http://www.stateofsearch.com/step-by-step-guide-finding-low-quality-links/

Wish I could tell you one way or another to remove and/or disavow those links, but there's never an easy answer.

-cyrus