Google makes it pretty clear that using the disavow tool is an act of last resort. Some are looking to toward the Disavow Links tool to bail them out. Having worked with several companies to successfully emerge from both manual penalties and...
Don’t get stressed out if someone threatens to disavow your site. There can be false positives, where a tool marks links as potentially unnatural. Another reason for a site hosting a natural link to get a request for link removal is if the site...
Note: Cyrus Shepard wrote a great post last week about the disavow tool and mentioned that you can use Screaming Frog to check page removals (if pages that contain spammy links to your site 404). It's important to have a well-structured Excel file...
Then came the link disavow tool, which allows webmasters to disallow paid or low quality links and clean up their backlink profile, regardless of whether they or a competitor was responsible for pointing those backlinks at a website.
When it comes to Google’s Disavow Tool, there was plenty of speculation and testing as to what approach to take. Well, according to Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, which was shared by John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google...
And for links we couldn't get taken down, I always knew we had the disavow tool as a last resort. Disavow Tool and Reconsideration Requests And that's a perfect use for the disavow tool. He explained the full story, including how we found the links...
There's good info about the disavow tool and reconsideration requests, which are again two topics that are greatly argued about and potentially misunderstood. Paddy Moogan is a well-known link builder who works for Distilled.
That said, EVERY link that falls outside of the webmaster guidelines must be cleaned up via link removal, or as a last resort, the disavow tool. Lutz is claimed to have said “I would concentrate on the links reported in the Webmaster Tools on...
If you can't get them removed, then use the Google Disavow Tool to request that they be ignored by Google. For those who want to debate the merits of this tool, we have used it, and it works like a champ.
Since announcing the disavow tool in October 2012, Google hasn’t given much insight regarding how to properly identify links that should be disavowed, leaving webmasters and SEO professionals to use their best judgment.
An article such as this could go on and on, but if you would like to know more about the dirty details regarding what to do next and the disavow tool, leave a comment about which link audit topic you want to learn more about.
This is why SEO professionals greeted Google's Distinguished Enginner Matt Cutts with cheers as he announced the release of the Disavow Links tool, which allows webmasters to ask Google not to take certain links into account when assessing your site.
Simply downloading your backlinks from GWT, then uploading some or all of them to the Disavow Links Tool is not a solution. Finally, let another week pass and any links still remaining will be sent to Google via the “Disavow Links tool.
The disavow tool lets us sever our relationships with all of those links we shouldn’t have gotten in the first place. But then Google gave us the disavow tool. In the last year, Google really changed the game.
Google and Bing then introduced “Disavow Links” tools into their Webmaster Tools sets. Disavow Facebook launches conversion measurement tool However, the reality is that Google once again has forced the hand of many SEOs and in particular tool...
New concepts like "AuthorRank," "Link Disavow Tool," and "Social Signals vs. 2012 has been an exciting year for search marketers. Google released algorithm updates at an unprecedented rate. Backlinks" have challenged SEO experts to review current...
When the news broke about Google's new disavow functionality, Simon Penson wrote a great piece on this site about it and it in October. This was big news just like the disavow. Bing also has a great keyword research tool.
In one recently well-known case a gentleman received a backlinks penalty, so he used the new disavow tool to disavow all his links and start fresh. Use this tool to see what Google’s spider is seeing.
These are the people we must disavow. Sites, providers, and tool creators may suffer the wrath. Much has already been written about the Google Penguin updates, and the impact these have had on websites and businesses.
Last week’s big announcement at Pubcon about Google’s Disavow Links tool (which comes several months after Bing launched their own version of the tool) was pretty hot news that set Twitter on fire. Live in Las Vegas it actually brought cheers from...
