Google: Ignore Link Spam Especially To 404 Pages
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I am not sure how many times Google has said that you do not need to disavow spammy links, that you can ignore link spam attacks and that links pointing to pages that 404/410 are links that do not count - but John Mueller from Google said it again.In a thread on X, John Mueller from Google wrote, "if the links are going to URLs that 404 on your site, they're already dropped." "They do nothing," he added, "If there's no indexable destination URL, there's no link." John then added, "I'd generally...

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