After analyzing our inbound links, it appears that we are getting a few thousand links from a particular site whose search engine result pages (SERPs) are being indexed by search engines. The website's SERP has a common sidebar that include links to our site.
So, we are getting links from pages with URLs that look like these:
http://example.com/search?q=foo
http://example.com/search?q=bar&page=10
- etc
Looking at the site's robots.txt
, it seems like they are telling robots not to index /search
.
Are these links hurting our rankings? We're on page 1 or 2 for the keywords we're interested in. We'd like to go to page 1 for everything. Should we try to disavow them or leave them alone?