saw a reddit thread where john mueller addressed concerns about legacy outbound links pointing to domains that got flipped to low-quality content. if u have old links in ur archive going to sites that are now basically spam, it turns out
google does not penalize you for those dead or changed connections.
>how does google treat OLD backlinks.it seems like the focus is on ur own site's relevance and quality rather than some phantom penalty from a hijacked target. i was checking my recent crawls in
ahrefs to see if any of my old guest posts were pointing to junk, but
the impact seems negligible as long as your outbound profile stays clean. does anyone else think we should still manually
disavow these types of links just to be safe?
more here:
https://searchenginewatch.com/google-answers-whether-old-backlinks-to-hijacked-domains-hurt-rankings/