What are these links? Are they any good?

Xyox

Xyox

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Hello, I recently bought an expired domain.

Checking with either SemRush or Ahrefs shows that the domain has lots of backlinks in the form of:

https://mydomain.com/<word>/?url=https://example.com
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Where <word> is always the same word. And a lot of the websites seem to be related to slot machines and do not have pretty-looking names.

Should I disavow them? Should I keep them?

EDIT:
Just to give a bit more info in case it's needed.
Ahrefs says EN | ECOMMERCE | CMS under all of them.
They all have DR 12-16, UR 84 and Traffic (Ahref says) 0.
 
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The domain you bought was used as a redirect for a casino network from what I gather from your posts. Yes, that is bad. I hope you didn't spend a lot of money. You disavow external links that you get, not the ones that you have built. Those will lead to 404 anyhow because they aren't active anymore. But I wouldn't build a big project on that domain to be honest.
 
that are mere url redirect links.
no need to disvow them.
google does not counts url redirects, exit page redirects any more.
 
jennykumar said:
that are mere url redirect links.
no need to disvow them.
google does not counts url redirects, exit page redirects any more.
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From my understanding, the link isn't from an external website to his, but from his website to external links. Notice his website is at the start of the link. This means the website was a redirect camp for casino websites. I wouldn't be so relaxed about this.
 
SunnyLeon said:
From my understanding, the link isn't from an external website to his, but from his website to external links. Notice his website is at the start of the link. This means the website was a redirect camp for casino websites. I wouldn't be so relaxed about this.
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you can then just add a robots.txt file disallowing all bots, or googlebot from crawling all URLs starting with: /word/
also use google search console URL removal tool to remove all URLs with prefix /word/ so google will not crawl or index them again in future. Disvow can only be used for external links linking to your site. I'm not sure you can disvow your site linking to external ones.
 
jennykumar said:
that are mere url redirect links.
no need to disvow them.
google does not counts url redirects, exit page redirects any more.
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SunnyLeon said:
From my understanding, the link isn't from an external website to his, but from his website to external links. Notice his website is at the start of the link. This means the website was a redirect camp for casino websites. I wouldn't be so relaxed about this.
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Hawkeye Digital said:
These are google Redirects links used to increase DA AND DR !
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Spent very little so it doesn't bother me at all.
I bought it mainly because the name was very good for what I need and looking at Archive.org it's always been used for the same niche and same type of website I want to build.

Just to be clearer this is an example of what Ahref shows for one of the backlinks:
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Notice the domain on the left is not the same as the domain on the extreme right of the image, that confuses me.
 
SunnyLeon said:
The domain you bought was used as a redirect for a casino network from what I gather from your posts. Yes, that is bad. I hope you didn't spend a lot of money. You disavow external links that you get, not the ones that you have built. Those will lead to 404 anyhow because they aren't active anymore. But I wouldn't build a big project on that domain to be honest.
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Good answer!

Could this be checked before buying the domain?
 
Xyox said:
Thank you for the quick reply.
Spent very little so it doesn't bother me at all.
I bought it mainly because the name was very good for what I need and looking at Archive.org it's always been used for the same niche and same type of website I want to build.

Just to be clearer this is an example of what Ahref shows for one of the backlinks:
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EDIT:
Notice the domain on the left is not the same as the domain on the extreme right of the image, that confuses me.
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if you are using it to build backlinks to your money site, then no worries.
if you want the domain to be used for money site, then you'll have to remove those traces/associations.
 
jennykumar said:
if you are using it to build backlinks to your money site, then no worries.
if you want the domain to be used for money site, then you'll have to remove those traces/associations.
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All right, so after seeing the image do you think I can use the disavow tool or is it better to block from robots.txt / search console?
 
Xyox said:
Yes I could see the backlinks before buying but I just bought it anyway because it was very very cheap.
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Alright. So you were aware of the risks beforehand.
As @SunnyLeon said, do not invest much further on this domain. It will be kind of increasing your risk.
 
If there's a ton of site links like this, it's likely something that was spammed to death

I wouldn't waste my time trying to rebuild that site........But to each their own.

But it will be an interesting case study regardless

But I would rather start from scratch and build a brand versus using a domain with a lot of back-links i can really understand

You wlill likely have to really expand the content selection and do a ton of rebuilding to get back to a healthy standpoint
 
These links appear to be webpages related to a specific topic. It is difficult to answer whether or not they are "good" without further information.
 
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