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My boss bought backlinks... what do I do?

I ran our website through SEMrush to see if there were any areas for improvement and mostly because I was bored. I had been told our SEO was in good shape, but the audit suggests otherwise, so now i have a shit load of things to fix.

Around a quarter of the backlinks were flagged as toxic, and they are 100% from link-selling/backlink networks.

I work in marketing, but SEO is usually handled by our web developer. It’s pretty likely these backlinks were either purchased or recommended by that web guy, since my boss knows nothing about SEO.

Basically, my question is would disavowing all 46 of these backlinks improve or potentially harm our SEO performance?

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