(Entry was posted by Todd Weise on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/14/2019).

Disavow site or no?

OK... have a gut on this, but wanted to get other opinions. First time dealing with a situation like this. Have a client I`m working with primarily as the dev. Was cleaning some stuff up that GSC had caught. Noticed that their 2nd biggest provider of inbound links happens to be from a user signature on a message board type site totally not related to the business. The poster was a is/was a manager. Disavow site or no? Again 2nd highest number of links, but not related to site.

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Dave Rohrer: Nope
Todd Weise: Ironically dave it`s a site you could probably leverage for some of yours ;)
Hayk Saakian: I would strongly discourage any developers from submitting disavow requests unless that type of work is built into your contract and your client expects you to do SEO.

I wouldn`t touch disavow unless I specifically knew a website was being targeted with negative SEO and spam intended to reduce our rankings.

Even if a forum signature looks spammy, and google`s guidelines probably discourage that kind of thing you have to look at google actual rankings to see how they really feel about something.
Michael Martinez: I would NOT disavow the links unless it was obvious they were placed for manipulative purposes. Forum signature links by themselves are fine. I use them myself for the sole purpose of letting people learn more about me (no targeted anchor text, not linking to pitch pages, etc.).