Should I disavow links that are on Malware sites?

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Hope this isn't a dumb question.

I haven't submitted a disavow request yet for a site I'm working on, because most of the links are solid. BUT there are 4 sites we have a link on (never requested it from them; they're Chinese sites), that all have malware warnings.

I heard somewhere submitting a disavow request is almost like alerting Google you're a spammer, but that sounds like conspiracy thinking.... but if this has been documented as true anywhere, I'd be interested to know.

Should I disavow these? Can these links be hurting my rankings?

I'm aiming towards doing it (disavowing), but want some confirmation. Thanks!
#disavow #links #malware #sites
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You're obviously going to disavow regardless what anyone else suggest so just do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author David C.
      No I'm not... if a number of people suggest I don't, and with good reason, I won't do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Have your pages dropped in Google SERPs? If not what's the big deal about 4 backlinks from China?

    As far as the disavow tool goes and this is fact, not theory. The only people who use disavow tools are trying to game Google SERPs. People that own sites & could care less about Google will never disavow a backlink. Google is smart enough to use that to their advantage.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Don't do it.

      If you do it, Google's will take it as a sign that you've tried to mess with their money-flow and kick your ass.

      How do I know?

      If I were Google, that's what I'd do.

      People who don't know about SEO, don't need a disavow tool!
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Disavow is a useless tool. But it makes webmasters feel
        better. It's like a hamster wheel. The hamster keeps
        doing it, to try and get somewhere. The human knows
        better. But it makes the hamster happy.

        Now if the hamster was a monster, and kicked it into
        high gear, tearing the wheel off, flying out of the cage,
        well, he'd get somewhere.

        Which, funny enough, is how google says you need to
        treat disavow.

        A useless endeavor to be sure.

        Paul
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        If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author ducnt
    Bad backlinks are not good for your website. Do it
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by ducnt View Post

      Bad backlinks are not good for your website. Do it

      Having 4 links from China doesn't mean OP has a bad link profile. Look at the BIG picture, If you're not deindexed odds are nothing is wrong.

      If OP can rank weak competition longtail keywords you can bet nothing is wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author hassangcf
    Keep your profile natural . if you get 100% good links it deosn't looks natural . so keep 4 links , they are not going to hurt your Ranking
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  • Profile picture of the author tdadkins
    I disavowed some links and it really dident do anything. My site is not very big but i think it helped get less bot views.
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    • Profile picture of the author David C.
      After going through ALL the links, I see there are something like 20 links from malware sites... changes things?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by David C. View Post

        After going through ALL the links, I see there are something like 20 links from malware sites... changes things?
        It only matters If you have a total of 21 links.

        Seriously, every single site has a few crappy links. It's not a big deal. Are they even followed backlinks?

        Now If the site is deindexed or impossible to rank weak competition keywords, sure, I'd say there's a problem somewhere. If you're just being paranoid while browsing 3rd party backlink profile data I would say there's no problem.
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  • I would do that anyways. I wouldn't want my business to be associated with malware of any kind.
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  • Profile picture of the author ElizabethArling
    I have the same question. I have backlinks from
    wzml.zzlt.cn/indexed.php
    ie0808.com/indexed.html
    do2k.com/indexed.html
    souchang.net/Alexa/?domain
    uniseek.net/indexed.html
    2684.cn/zool/Alexa/Index.asp?domain
    tool.114la.com/pr/
    They look suspicious and I would like to disavow them as well, because the ranking of my site is low and doesn't grow.
    Has anyone done this? any good/bad results?
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  • Profile picture of the author extrememan
    I wouldn't - If google can trace those spammy links then all over search engines can properly find them too. I would stay with well establishes sites with healthy PR.
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    • Profile picture of the author irawr
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      Originally Posted by extrememan View Post

      I wouldn't - If google can trace those spammy links then all over search engines can properly find them too. I would stay with well establishes sites with healthy PR.
      Wait. What?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by zeyfah View Post


      That's hilarious. The first word Google mentions on that page is Pagerank.

      Google knows anyone using the disavow tool is sculpting their backlinks for SEO. Webmasters that aren't link sculpting don't use the disavow tool.

      I have no doubts that disavow tool is a honeypot looking for unwitting webmasters to out their paid link suppliers.
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