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. Let's look at why webmasters and business owners send link removal emails, and how to respond. How Should Webmasters Respond to Link Removal Requests?
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.
Well, according to Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, which was shared by John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, webmasters should be tackling URLs for the disavow tool with a machete instead of a scalpel.
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...
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.
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.
These are the people we must disavow. There are no specific steps webmasters can take to force a website or its pages to rank well in search engines," according to Jim Hedger, creative partner at Digital Always Media.
Google could definitely use the disavow tool as a signal that a site is passing bad links if there are multiple webmasters all disavowing links from the same site. But looking at the link disavow tool from the opposite side of the fence, there are...
Check out the URL here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main The long-awaited Google Disavow Links Tool is now available. Cutts first mentioned the impending arrival of the Disavow Links tool in June.
To help fix this problem, Bing Webmaster Tools has a Disavow Links Tool (and Google is reportedly working on adopting something similar). Search through reputable forums, blogs, and publications to determine if a large number of webmasters are...
Disavow Links Like Google Webmaster Tools (GWT), Bing's Webmaster Tools provides some great data for webmasters to use and address potential SEO issues. You can click down through the folders and get the data just for that section, which is a...
Webmasters have been asking for a way to disavow links for years now," said Bing's Duane Forrester. This new disavow tool, like all the rest of Bing's Webmaster tools, helps Bing to understand a webmaster's intent around its site, and its links.
