Should deindexed links be deleted?

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[DmitriiK]

Hi.

Is your website deindexed and nofollowed? Is it deindexed but physical deletion or use of meta robots?

The answer to your question would depend on what exactly you want to achieve. If you are trying to get rid of those links because they are low quality or something, then, if website physically exists and there is now NOFOLLOW tag, then yes, either delete actual links or put nofollow meta robots everywhere. if website physically doesn't exist anymore then it won't matter, since google won't be able to crawl it anyway.

Just remember this: deindexing !== uncrawlable

Hope this helps.

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[DmitriiK]

Oh, I see now. No, website can't be deindexed due to just having links to a website. Now, if those links/site-A were spammy - completely different story.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Michael

Dmitrii has the right idea. If site A's links to site B are spammy, it doesn't matter if the site has been penalized or not by Google to pass bad link value to site B. A deindexation is just an action by Google to penalize site A, but site A could be sending spammy signals all along. So I would make your decision based upon the quality of links.

This post on how to judge link quality might help: http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/backlink-analysis/

I'd be more concerned about Google picking up on there being an ownership connection between the two sites, unless you're completely transparent about that anyway.