Backlink Lists

[freestone]

I am trying to create a valid list of backlink domain to disavow after a 50% traffic cut by Penguin......problem is I have now pulled lists from 4 tool and the lists are all different.  I find a toxic domain from the tool run on LinkResearchTools and look on Google and Site Explorer and the toxic link does not even show.  I look at the page and sure enough the link from year ago on a link farm is there.

Is there really a rue definitive tool that will give me a list of all links?  Better yet is there a tool that will help me evaluate which domain to disavow ?  I want to follow Dr. Pete's advice and go slow but I am also anxious to cut ties with SEO work done by someone else in the hay day of link farm SEO and frankly looking at resent links some Bad SEO by competitors.

[freestone]

Thanks for the reply.  I gathered from additional resources that there is no one site. Nor any tool that properly evaluates them as spam sites so I guess I am rolling up my sleves to get the work done.

There are some obvious site I need to diavow so I will start with them.   I have not read about how you resubmit disavow but I guess you just add to the list and send it again.  I will try to make this first pass rather comprehensive.

I did read about another post which seems to indicate that one you have your list there is a tool to help you evalute the sites.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankingsI will try to post my experience with trying to use this method.

[RyanKent]

Hi John,

The tools you desire do not exist. Even worse news, they probably never will.

Each producer of crawl data is independent of the others. Google, Bing, Majestic, Open Site Explorer and AHREFs are the 5 major crawl tools on the market. There are others such as the one you mentioned. Each tool uses different techniques to crawl the trillions of web pages.

The best solution for site owners would be if Google was willing to share all their link data, but that seems unlikely to happen. When working with clients who are penalized for manipulative links or impacted by Penguin, I pull data from all the mentioned sources and combine them into one report. By using this method, you can obtain the most comprehensive backlink report possible.

With respect to using a tool to automatically identify manipulative vs organic links, it is my strong opinion there is not any tool on the market which comes reasonably close to achieving this goal. All tools I have investigated both miss a significant amount of manipulative links, and also classify a significant amount of organic links as manipulative.

For every client I have worked with, a trained human has visited each and every site to make a determination as to whether each domain offers organic or manipulative links. In my experience, that is the only way to remove a manual penalty. If you are affected by Penguin, then you may get away with some shortcuts, but you are at serious risk of being hit hard by Penguin again during the next update.