Links from **searchengines.com

[MickEdwards]

Looking at the list of linking domains in Webmaster Tools I have come across 36 from domains similar to **searchengines.com or .net, where ** is a number.  They are all duplicates and get their data from DMOZ.

I'm cleaning up the link profile and my question is should I be concerned to get these cleaned up especially as I have some more serious links to clean out and possibly need to use disavow?

Actually if I need them removed and the sites state I have to go through DMOZ to do so is that good enough for Google to understand that I can't really manually remove these links and I can proceed to disavow them?

[Chris.Menke]

You could disavow them but I don't think they pose a problem. I recently saw them, too, in the back links of a client and guessed it was someone's science project gone out of control.

[advent.pk]

Its better to adopt a proactive approach instead of sitting back and wait for penalization. If it makes you feel unnatural then it is the case with Google spiders as well. Later or sooner if there system picked your site for scrutiny they can creates problem for your website so its better to cleanup such links and as a last resort you may use disavow tool.

Always record your communications whenever you have such problem you can show that to Google webspam team as a proof of your sincere efforts.

I hope it helps.

Thanks