We all know about the importance of good and relevant backlinks for our website in search engine optimization. Google or any other search engine ranks a website according to the number of quality and relevant backlinks coming to that site. Before penguin was released, many webmasters use automated softwares to create and increase the number of backlinks. But Google consider these kinds of automated generated links as spam backlinks. To stop theses kind of activities and give users a quality experience Google discover and update its algo and name it penguin.
Google penguin update was released to target spam backlinks and lower down the ranking of those sites that have spam or automatically generated backlinks. Google penguin was discovered to generate relevant results but it creates a problem called negative seo. Just because, this update is to target those websites who has spam backlinks or using automated software’s to generate huge number of backlinks everyday to rank higher in search results, many webmasters start creating spam backlinks for good, reputed and their competitor’s websites to make that site’s ranking lower and higher their own and this formula works good. after all these things happened and negative seo techniques developed by some clever minds, every webmaster looking for a solution to stop these kinds of unauthorized activities for their websites, and the time comes when Google introduce it’s links disavow tool to disavow unwanted and spam backlinks which start creating ranking issues for good websites.
Why we need Google Disavow Link Tool
Have you been affected by negative seo campaigns or Google penguin update. Before we continue I would like to confirm you that if you have never brought any links from any third party vendor or if you are not getting any spam links warning messages in your webmaster account then you need not to take any headache for this tool because it’s not an algo update, it’s just a tool to help webmasters to disavow unwanted backlinks coming to their website. I would also like to confirm you that improper use of this tool may harm or damage your site’s ranking completely. Use this tool only if you exactly know which links are spams and you have no other way to control them.
As we already discussed about the negative seo techniques in which anyone can create spam backlinks for any website to make that site’s ranking down. any well planed negative seo campaign can harm a site’s ranking. That does why we need google link disavow tool to disavow such spam backlinks. This tool is good news for all webmasters but use this tool only….
- If you’re getting spam links warning in your webmaster account.
- If your site penalized from Google manually or automatically.
- Google Penguin affected site.
- Negative SEO campaigns.
- Bad reciprocal Links.
- If you’re getting links from a site which is not related to your site’s niche.
- Links from suspicious sites (if webmasters disavow their links from a site continuously Google take that site suspicious).
What exactly google link disavow tool is and how it works.
Well Google Inc. is a #1 dot com company in the world and always tries to avoid and penalize spammers from their search engines. This tool is discover to remove or disavow unwanted and spam backlinks which harm a website’s ranking. We all know that if our site is getting spam backlinks from any other website then there is only way to mail that site’s owners to remove such links from there sites but most of the time we didn’t get any response or activity against our mails and there is no other way to control such kind of irrelevant links and negative seo campaigns. So this tool is design to remove such links. With the help of this tool we can complaint spam backlinks directly to the google and google will not count those links while ranking our site. If your site is affected by google penguin update or any kind of negative seo campaigns or spam backlinks, you can easily complaint those spam backlinks to google and get your site’s ranking back after a couple of weeks because after getting any complaint through link Disavow tool google will not count that links while assessing the site.
How to use Google link disavow tool
To disavow spam links for your website you have to create a list of spam backlinks in a text file and upload it to google disavow link page in google webmaster tool. You can also disavow entire domain name, if you think that you are getting too many spam links from a domain you can write full domain name in your list and google will ignore the entire links coming from that domain. You can go through the following link.
How To Write text file to disavow links
# Contacted owner of abc.com on 5/10/2012 to
# ask for link removal but got no response
domain:abc.com
# Owner of xyz.com removed most links, but missed these
http://www.xyz.com/spam-link1.html
http://www.xyz.com/spam-link2.html
http://www.xyz.com/spam-link3.html
and save it txt format. and then go to…..
Google Disavow Links Tool = https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
it will show you like this:
after click on Disavow links it will show you a warning like this:
click on Disavow Links to upload the file:
click on choose file and submit and done.
But one think is to remember that use this tool only if you are sure that the links you are going to disavow are spam links because if you disavow good and quality links by mistake it will definitely harm your site’s ranking because google will ignore those links.
But need not to worry because you also have an option to reedit your disavow link text file, you can download this file from Google’s site and can add or remove more links or domains in it and can reload it.
So this tool can help you to get your site’s ranking back, if you use it properly but remember one thing that improper use of this tool may damage a site’s ranking.
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