Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.
Andrea Pernici: If broken is a link to a 404 page you can forget it.
Rohan Ayyar: I'd disavow it at the least. +Andrea Pernici ;Doesn't it affect the domain trust?
Andrea Pernici: No +Rohan Ayyar. Before the disavow tool exists the first suggestion by Google was to return a 404 for the pages with unnatural link.
The real purpose of the Disavow Tool should be to remove links in case of a real negative SEO attack and in general it happen very rarely.
Obviously in the SEO community the Disavow became the life saver for crappy link builders, but this is another story.
Justin Y: Why not just redirect it via htaccess to some place relevant? A 404 page is an option and I def wouldn't go with disavow... I don't think it would have a negative affect on your site for having a bad inbound link though, to me bad inbound links are pretty natural for the most part.
Andrea Pernici: +Justin Y ;it has no sense to redirect a link that I don't want.
It isn't relevant in any case how can he find a relevant place to redirect a non relevant link?
Justin Y: +Andrea Pernici what if its inbound link that has a typo or a link that points to a page that no longer exists? I don't think there's enough detail to really say what he should or shouldn't do or am I wrong?
Sorry +Rob Truslove I should have asked the type of inbound link that is broken first?
Andrea Pernici: +Justin Y ;there are 2 completely different things.
A wrong link is not necessarily a bad one.
Justin Y: +Andrea Pernici like I said before, its probably better to know exactly what +Rob Truslove is referring too in terms of a bad link. I'm not here to sabotage anyone's thread, I'm only here to try and help and give suggestions. I could be wrong.
Rob Truslove: Sorry guys - thanks for your help. These are spammy links that are now broken - so I don't want to fix them. I'm just not sure if they can still negatively affect a website... Cheers ;
Justin Y: Np.If there's not a lot of them, I don't think you'll be directly affected by it. ; ;Personally in this type of situation I always double check to make sure there's a balance between bad vs good. Those are my thoughts. ;
Jim Munro: Test for ;+W.E. Jonk ;: ;From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:04:38 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/would_you_remove_a_bad_inbound_link_even_if_it_is_broken
W.E. Jonk: Jim the uploaded video is only 1:17 long .... ;
Jim Munro: yes - I think that is because it has not processed yet. Checking it now.
Jim Munro: It's still not processed. Oh I hope this is not all we have recorded. It was a brilliant hangout too.
Would you remove a bad inbound link, even if it is broken? 
