Much awaited by webmasters and web owners, a tool to disavow links is launched and is located at URL http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main.
As we all know that bing has already was the first one to do this, now Google has taken a step further to make life of webmasters easy. This Disavow Links tool will help if you have got manual spam action based on “unnatural links” pointing to your site message in webmaster tools.
Will this tool solve my all problems?
No, We need to understand what this tool can do for you, if you are thinking that
- This tool will do all automatic – Wrong
- I do not need to remove links – Wrong
- I do not need to contact webmaster for link removal – Wrong
If you still have thought that this tool will do all things automatic after loading all links by text file? No, Matt Cutts video and Google blog post clearly highlights and warns that you need o contact webmasters to get those low quality links removed personally or from hosting companies. Google strongly suggest you make every effort to have them removed from the web first. Another thing is that by using this tool for all your links sheet (without making link removal yourself) you are sending strong signal to Google that you have been involved in unnatural SEO methods or practices, so carefully consider how it’s used.
We recommend that you contact the sites that link to you and try to get links taken off the public web first
This tool will help for those links which have no way to get removed by contacting site owners or link source.
What if you don’t try to remove links?, Matt Says
No, I wouldn’t count on this. In particular, Google can look at the snapshot of links we saw when we took manual action. If we don’t see any links actually taken down off the web, then we can see that sites have been disavowing without trying to get the links taken down.
How to use disavow links tool ?
Here at Submitshop, our team tried it practically and when you will click on this tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main, It will give you the list of websites to select which you are the verified owner. You can select a website and Click “Disavow links”
The next screen will ask display saying
“This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site’s performance in Google’s search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you believe you have a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you.”
You can upload the text file as explained by Google with particular format with plain text file with one URL per line. An excerpt of a valid file might look like the following:
# Contacted owner of domainspamabc.com on 7/1/2012 to
# ask for link removal but got no response
domainspamabc.com
# Owner of domainspamabcd.com removed most links, but missed these
http://www.domainspama1.com/contentA.html
http://www.domainspama2.com/contentB.html
http://www.domainspama3.com/contentC.html
Here is video from Matt Cutts explaining more on this tool.
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Disavow links tool isn’t the one stop solution for all your low quality links, if you have got unnatural links message in your webmaster tools account. As clearly stated by Matt Cutt in a video or a Google blog post itself that you need to contact webmasters, site owners manually to get removed low quality links first before using Google tool. It is only for those links which you can’t get removed by webmasters and there is no way to get removed those links.
Great! Google has released much anticipated disavow links tool. This tool was long due and provides complete control to webmaster over incoming hyperlinks. With this feature Google will put whole responsibility to site owners to keep an eye on Spam/low quality links. Thanks for posting this information. I am the regular reader for this site and I also tried and hope I’ll get some good tips and response for my site.
But after reading whole the post and listening the video of Matt Cutts, its clearly stated that web owners first need to contact sites manually and get the low quality links removed themselves, this tool will help for those link which have no way to get removed.
Really thanks for this information. If all webmasters and web owners got problematic links in webmaster tool this Disavow tool will help for removal of bad links but we need manual links removal too. Matt Cutts video or Google post clearly indicates Disavow tool and need to contact webmasters for removing the No-quality links.
This post is Useful for the entire Penguin algorithm updates
Thanks for all who posted your thoughts on tool and process.
To update, here at http://searchengineland.com/matt-cutts-qa-how-to-use-google-link-disavow-tool-137664, answering question about “What if you don’t try to remove links?” Matt Says
“No, I wouldn’t count on this. In particular, Google can look at the snapshot of links we saw when we took manual action. If we don’t see any links actually taken down off the web, then we can see that sites have been disavowing without trying to get the links taken down.”
So its must to remove those bad links first.