Proactively Use GWT Removal Tool?

[KempRugeLawGroup]

I have a bunch of links on my site from sexualproblems.net (not a porn site, it's a legit doctor's site who I've talked to on the phone in America). The problem is his site got hacked and has tons of links on his homepage to other pages, and mine is one of them. I have asked him multiple times to take the link down, but his webmaster is his teenage son, who doesn't basically just doesn't feel like it. My question is, since I don't think they will take the link down, should I proactively remove it or just wait till I get a message from google?

I'd rather not tell google I have spam links on my site, even if I am trying to get them removed. However, I have no idea if that's a legitimate fear or not. I could see the link being removed and everything continuing fine or I could see reporting the removal request as signaling a giant red flag for my site to be audited.

Any advice?

• Ruben

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

If you have low quality / hacked links leading to your site, I would just go ahead and disavow that site. Don't worry about Google coming along to audit you for this, that isn't what they are trying to do. You need to distance yourself from the site and this is the way to do it.

-Andy

[iSTORM-New-Media]

If you feel the link is negatively affecting your site then you can disavow links from that domain using the Disavow Link tool in Webmaster Tools: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

But your best is always to try get the link down manually. If it is not affecting you (one bad link in a herd of many links) then I wouldn't worry about it.

[KempRugeLawGroup]

*Disavow, that's what I meant to say. Alright, thanks for your insights! I appreciate it.

• Ruben