What Links to Disavow?
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I am looking through my website's link profile that I pulled directly from Google Webmaster Tools. What is the best way to determine the links to disavow? Maybe the Webmaster Tools list is not the best list for this process but I really need to clean up the links that are hurting the site's SEO. Does anyone have any insight?
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There are a number of tools that will help you with identifying the problematic backlinks.
Kerboo (formerly Link Risk) is very good and one of my personal favourites to simplify the process. Alternatively, use URL Profiler. This (I find) more complete and allows me a little more control in how I audit the links, but it depends what you want to do. In my opinion, both are about the best in their class and well worth a look.
-Andy
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Hi,
I will share all in one article to remove low quality links from your website. Please follow all the steps mentioned in below article.
http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-find-remove-bad-backlinks/
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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Hi there
The best way to assess backlinks are to ask the following questions:
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Does this link help my website?
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Is this link relevant to my website?
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Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it?
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Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website?
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If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy?
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Are the links from directory templates? (example)
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Inspect URLs with blatant spam words
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Free
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Porn
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XXX
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Submit
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Directory
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Paid
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Links
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URL
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Sex
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etc.
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Check for multiple domains and URLs on the same IPs
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This can usually show link farms or spam
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Also, don't disregard or disavow links because they are nofollow - those still have potential to be valuable!
That being said, you should try removing these bad backlinks as well to show effort if you ever fall into a manual action. It may be unlikely, but it's good to have in your back pocket.
Moz has a great resource to help you with the disavow tool as well - I recommend you check it out!
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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