Comments on: Google Link Disavow Tool: The Complete Guide

By: XLWEB Marketing

XLWEB Marketing — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:21:00 +0000

Hi Dan, I like your comment “You don’t have to spend money on fancy link analysis tools.”. I’ve been using all manner of tools which can be useful if data is aggregated and I have hours to pour over the results. I knew my site had been hit with a penalty for one main term and simply wasn’t ranking at all. I haven’t been doing anything spammy, really, over the years but knew some directory or blog other was having a bad effect. Using the tools out there it would have been easy to come up with a massive list of potential linking sites I needed to disavow but after reading this and using the download from webmaster tools I spotted the referring domain right away. Cheers, I’ll stick to the basics now – so easy to over-analyse at times!

By: Dat To

Dat To — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:02:00 +0000

Dan, love your youtube videos and THANK YOU for such an amazing job of making and sharing this guide. We have spent too much time & money combing through i don’t know how many thousands of links from google webmaster tools & majesticseo for 6 Client sites that got pooched. (Can you recommend a tool that gets ALL the external backlinks pointing to a site?? Cause google webmaster sucks for this- no anchor text info and partial URL lists.)

We are about to compile text files for disavow tool. Agree with Matthew Woodward’s comments below. This is BS. Spanking people by putting on ranking impairing penalty and forcing people to waste time and money to manually check every freakin’ link or start new domains.

Then giving them the end results of all this work and then ‘snitching’ as Matt says on all these sites for hopes that Mighty Google will stop spanking us, forgive and allow us to climb out of ranking purgatory so we don’t waste any new quality links on sites that won’t recover without doing this. Thank you!

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:34:00 +0000

Hi Dan,
As you mentioned adding rel=”nofollow” tag won’t help and won’t harm your website. If i get a backlink from porn sites with Nofollo Tag, Will it hurt my search engine reputation?

Need Your Answer

By: Deb Dulal Dey

Deb Dulal Dey — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:38:00 +0000

Hi Dan,

Just noticed that you have uploaded a CSV file in the Disaow link option. But I think it should be a .txt file as illustrated in the image – http://cdn.dejanseo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/image02.png

Please confirm.

regards
Deb Dulal Dey

By: Arnav Chawdhree

Arnav Chawdhree — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:41:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing .Very informative..

By: Pano Kondoyiannis

Pano Kondoyiannis — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:28:00 +0000

The SEO never die, and continue exist as long as there exist google. And if the position taken from another search engine will do SEO for her. :-)

By: Gerard Gallegos

Gerard Gallegos — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:39:00 +0000

Great article and hangout!

Personalty I wouldn’t suggest to send and try to disavow links if you never got any message from Google of having unnatural links. Why would you then tell them that you have such links?

By: MatthewWoodward

MatthewWoodward — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Hi Dan,

You missed a very important section of your article which is Why You Shouldn’t Use This Tool.

I can already see that forums are buzzing with news of the tool as people race to use it but this is actually something that is going to do more harm to the SEO community than good.

My post goes into a lot more detail http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tips/why-google-disavow-is-bad-news-for-seo/ but in essence this is just a super snitch tool.

Google’s algorithyms are incapable of accurately diagnosing link spam so now they have enlisted webmasters all around the world to do the donkey work for them.

Smart move if your Google, not so much if your an SEO.

By: hyderali

hyderali — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:09:00 +0000

Thank you very much Dan!

It seems that you are the first person to test & write about the disavow link from google. Finally, google listened to our yelling & in the end launched the disavow link but the credit must be given to bing for developing it before google.

Will be eagerly waiting for the post from your or either from the SEO community regarding the effect of removing bad links on the site.

By: Jemin

Jemin — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:00:00 +0000

I think this is great tool and now its easy to webmasters to get their websites ranking back which are effected from Google penguin update,,