Backlink Profile Cleanup

[PartyStore]

I have downloaded the domains that link to my website (550 domains) and I am going through the low quality (low DA) sites to ask them to remove their links to my website or I will disavow them.  I have noticed alot of blogspot.in and blogspot.nl  (SEE ATTACHED)

Should I ask them for removal or disavow these?

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[bigrat95]

I would disavow them, but be careful when disavow a Blogspot.

The tool work on domains and sub-domains so if you disavow domain:blogspot.com be prepared to lose a lot of links.

When you are reviewing links you need to pay a lot of attention to duplicate content – for example if you disavow a link from a site that is available at a .com and a .co.uk domain you will need to disavow them both.

ref: http://www.branded3.com/blogs/how-to-use-the-google-link-disavow-tool/

[Chris661]

It would help to understand why have you decided to disavow links. Have you received a manual action or think you may be subject to algorithmic penalties? Has traffic to your site dropped?  Just because a link comes from a site with low DA, it is not necessarily bad. Google is looking for manipulation.

[Dr-Pete]

Agreed about treading carefully, but you can disavow subdomains. This is from Google's post when they launched disavow:

Q: Can I disavow something.example.com to ignore only links from that subdomain?

A: For the most part, yes. For most well-known freehosts (e.g. wordpress.com, blogspot.com, tumblr.com, and many others), disavowing "domain:something.example.com" will disavow links only from that subdomain. If a freehost is very new or rare, we may interpret this as a request to disavow all links from the entire domain. But if you list a subdomain, most of the time we will be able to ignore links only from that subdomain.

Since they call out Blogspot, I think it's pretty safe.

[Dr-Pete]

Agreed with Chris that some context would help. This is a big, complex decision, and it's tough to judge link quality without seeing the links. My gut feeling is that a bunch of foreign Blogspot dofollow links probably are spammy, but there's a big difference between fixing a link-based penalty, preventing one, and just taking a hatchet to your links.