Disavow links



Matt Cutts explains the “Disavow links” feature of Google Webmaster Tools.

Learn more about how to use the disavow links feature on our blog and in our Help Center:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow-links.html
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2648487

Access the feature here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

More webmaster resources:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

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20 thoughts on “Disavow links”

  1. Hy sir
    my name is daulat.
    currently i have been working on a blog and i don't know how i got 16 k backlinks from single domain and that's really hurting my site.
    i followed the google disvow links tools, but my website in URL is not getting visible in that Disvow box. please sir its my request to you please help in that to protect my blog. i Hope you Would Help me in this..

  2. Hi , thank you for this video , i have a question=> there are some websites which are linking me with bad anchor text , what should i do with them ??? Also their spam rate is about 50% , and their domain authority is about 47 % , my own website spam rate is 1% , pls help me , do they have negative effect on my seo ranking???? Thank you

  3. My site got hacked with a weird page creation script that created a boatload of garbage inbound links. All the bogus pages have been killed on my site. The funky scripts have also been removed. My site authority has been killed due to all this bad activity. Is disavow tool what I should use?

  4. Sir Nice vedio am Canfuse My Website am Tottly step by step clear all process in search cansole add. But my sitemap pending status pending show

    Configured wrong My Website Seo Show Me…

    Search engines see your https://guideconsal.blogspot.in and https://guideconsal.blogspot.in/index.html (or https://guideconsal.blogspot.in/index.php) as different pages.
    With a variety of URLs, it's more challenging to get consolidated metrics for a specific piece of content.

    How to fix ?

  5. This tool causes massive confusion in the SEO community. A lot of "experts" are basically using it to remove spam links from bad neighborhoods, but clearly that is not the intended purpose. Also, removing spam links manually in this fashion could quickly get very tedious. Google has stated multiple times, that they are able to identify most spam links, so you do normally not have to do anything.

  6. All of this disavow tool bs is exactly that. BS.
    Google acts like they think that the majority of those people with bad links and are complaining about it, are people who have put themselves in that position, and they act like negative SEO isn't a big thing.
    Come on Matt, nobody likes to admit when they are wrong but it is very commonplace these days for people to spam crappy links at their competitors, and all that Google gives us to deal with it is this??

    Everybody on here that mentioned that instead of a dis-avow tool, an avow tool would be much better, is right. Win-win situation right?

  7. I really wish google would just roll back penguin and panda!  This has caused more damage than good.  If you provide a disavow tool, why not allow an un-disavow tool for us mom and pops, as you call it, who make errors in fixing YOUR idea of a link problem.  Amazon, Ebay, Wiki can do no wrong and are at the top of many niches although they are nothing more than a paid link farm. I just don't get it!

  8. Why google doesn't do a better algorithm? Instead of disavowing links, building an "accepting link tool" would be much better, so the spammers and competitors can not harm other people's websites. And also, only penalize the websites which have spammy links, 

  9. this is maybe a stupid question, but i just curious. What if other competitors check my backlinks, then disavow my high quality links?? its possible?? for example: i have a high quality backlinks from edu link, then some of my competitor checking source of my backlinks and found it then disavow that links. 

  10. To me it looks like this diavow thing is a big scam of Google to get people to give them loads of free information about potential spam sites. It doesnt seem to help anything for the users who need it to work to give them back their precious serp rankings.

    For now it seems only to work if one received a manual penalty. During the last months i used it for different sites of customers who where penalized (nt manual) by bad-seo in the past. We did everything Matt Cutts / Google tell to do; clean up bad links, use the disavow tool, create a website with new, relevant content on a regular basis etc Diffirent tools I use rate those sites now as having a "good looking link profile", but i see not a minimum of effect on the important rankings, where the businesses of my customers are depending on.

    Offcourse there is no way to communicate with Google, in there ivory tower, about this problems and complete businesses loose a lot of money by this situation. Businesses who pay a lot of money to Google with different Google advertising options.

    Paul – The Netherlands

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