Backlinks from domains that are not indexed...

[cbielich]

Would you count them as spammy and disavow?

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

It really depends on the link.

The best way to define a bad link is to use your own intuition and common sense:

• Does this link help my website?
• Is this link relevant to my website?
• Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it?
• Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website?
• If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy?

I would go through a backlink audit - what needs to be removed / disavowed? Start there and assess. Truthfully, if the site is not indexed, it's not that big of a deal. I would just make sure that's it's relevant and a good link, because it could send traffic.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[MattRoney]

Hi Cesar!

Some folks may disagree, but I'd say they're only spammy if they're spammy. Not being indexed doesn't necessarily mean they're spam.

I assume you mean they're not indexed in Google, correct? Not that they're not indexed in Open Site Explorer?

[cbielich]

Correct, they are not indexed and they are by far spam just looking at them. Here is an example of one

http://beach.speedy.ch/joomdocs/FREE-SCRABBLE-DICTIONARY.htm

I know its spammy, I was just wondering what others thought

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi again

Yeah, if this is representative of the other links, you should definitely look into those and either remove/disavow them.

That's just my two cents!

[MattRoney]

Oh yeah, definitely agree. But it's spammy because it's spammy, not because it isn't indexed.

[cbielich]

thanks man