I’ve been hit with a lot of spammy backlinks and want a feature that helps me identify and manage these links effectively, including disavowing them if necessary.
So over the past few months we've been hit with a load of spammy backlinks pointing to one of our sites. Hundreds of them. Most are nofollow, but after digging around a bit, it seems Google can still follow nofollow links in some cases. They changed it from a directive to a "hint" back in 2019, so there's no guarantee they're being ignored. The domains look like the usual garbage, link farms, scrapers, BHS links, Telegram, that kind of thing. Has anyone else run into the same thing recently? Specifically: * Did you bother disavowing, or just leave it? * Any actual ranking impact you noticed before/after? * Are there specific domain patterns here that anyone recognises from past negative SEO hits? For what it's worth, we're in the igaming niche. I know the general advice is "nofollow = don't worry about it," but with the hint change and the big volume, I'm not 100% comfortable having all these spammy links. Leaning toward building a disavow file but wanted to see what people who've actually dealt with this think before I go ahead.