Backlink Disavow strategy

[bigrat95]

Hi, I would like to know what are the things to check when Disavow backlinks? Should we disavow all the low PR and DA backlinks ex: disavow all the backlinks under 4PR?

Thanks alot !

[bigrat95]

thanks i'll go check this out !

[bigrat95]

Cool thanks! I will go chek this out !

[EricaMcGillivray]

I recommend checking out Cyrus' post on the disavow tool. He did a ton of testing with it early on.

[sachin-sv]

Hi Bigrat95,

Google states that the disavow tool should be used only "if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you." The disavow backlinks tool should be used with caution since it can potentially harm your site's performance.

Using the disavow backlinks tool is an indicator that there's something fishy about your website and it can happen that you disavow good backlinks that help your website.

So, I would advise you to take care of the following points before using Disavow Tool: -

• In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most normal or typical sites will not need to use this tool.

• It is advisable to use this tool if , you actually did spam Google in the past. if not then invest your time in getting new high quality backlinks.

• Again, it is a good idea to use this tool if You have received an algorithmic or a manual penalty from Google.

• According to Cutts, after a webmaster has gone through the usual routes of trying to get links removed off sites they see as being low-quality, whether it was from poor SEO decisions or a bad SEO company, then that is when you would use the disavow tool, to disavow the links you haven't been able to get removed.

• Cutts said that if the links are on sites you don’t want to be associated with whatsoever, to go and disavow the site from the domain level (e.g., example.com) rather than that the exact page the link appears on (e.g., example.com/directory/directory/spamlinkpage.html).

I would not advice you to disavow all the low PR and DA backlinks. It is always recommended to go thru the link to see the quality in terms of relevancy.

You should remove the link if you think that can harm your site like links from porn sites, gambling sites, non-relevant websites, links from the TLD which are in different language like an English site link on .de domains etc.

Don't disavow your good backlinks accidentally! Be cautious!

Also, remember- Each time you upload a new .txt file it will overwrite the previous one, so for using the disavowing tool more than once, update the original .txt file and upload it again.

Hope this will help.

[Chris661]

There is quite a bit of information available here using search such as http://moz.com/community/q/find-and-monitor-possible-bad-links

Link Detox has worked for me.

Best.