Comments on: Is it enough to use Google Webmaster Tools for link clean-up?

By: nguyentoloan

nguyentoloan — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:42:00 +0000

Thank your for share. I like it.

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:03:00 +0000

Wow, thanks Dan, for digging this up!

Like the other commenters here, I’m skeptical, not only due to the 10k limit, or the potential for more links being added “tomorrow”. but also because, as Sha says, “You only have to look at the links surfaced by other tools to see that either these comments don’t gel…” –

We’ve all seen crappy links that we KNOW should be removed and have been puzzled why they’e not listed in in GWT, haven’t we? What about links from a domain that gets penalized badly and deindexed?

Is John Mueller actually saying “It’s okay to leave your crappy links up as long as they’re not listed in GWT?” – I don’t think so, I think when doing cleanups we’ll continue to do what I believe is the “right thing” and remove as much crap as possible, using all the tools at our disposal.

thanks again for finding it!

By: Tiggerito

Tiggerito — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:44:00 +0000

GWMT has a limit to the backlinks it reports (Last I tested 10k) so if you have a high backlink count you will not see everything Google knows. The good side is that those 10k get spread over all domains so you should get a good domain level knowledge. Also, it refreshes and changes every few weeks so over time you can get a more complete picture,

My opinion is data from GWMT should take priority, but if you have to dig deeper use other sources like Majestic SEO.

By: Sha Menz

Sha Menz — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:48:00 +0000

My Grandmother taught me a long time ago to “believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see”.

You only have to look at the links surfaced by other tools to see that either these comments don’t gel, or Google’s ability to recognize the crap is way less developed than they would have us all believe.

Our rmoov users are reporting good results by following the “start by analyzing as many links as you can find” method, and I would not recommend otherwise.

All this video does for me is highlight yet another instance of a high profile Googler telling us how they believe things work at Google, when we can see for ourselves that something, somewhere is not working as they say it should :(

By: David Iwanow

David Iwanow — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:39:00 +0000

I don’t care i’m sticking with no GWT is not good enough just because Google doesn’t have the links listed today doesn’t mean they won’t be added at some point in the future, also it’s about reputation management if you have really bad links out there with your clients brand or pointing to a clients website