Removed Link
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After I have removed a link, how long does it take for it to be reflected in Google WMT?
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It can take days, weeks or months for a link to be recognized as removed by Google. It depends on the crawl frequency of the site. If I've gotten a link removed from a PR6 site it likely will be noticed by Google quickly as the page is probably crawled often. But, if it's a PR0 that has not changed in months then it may take weeks before the page is recrawled and Google sees the link is gone.
FYI, if you are disavowing links you will still see them in WMT. Disavowing doesn't remove the link but Google essentially adds a nofollow to it.
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That's correct!
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that depends on how often THEIR site is crawled. But if it's no longer up it's no longer a problem if you're not penalized.
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If you site has a high domain authority, then most likely your site is crawled by google bot everyday. I would give it two or three days.
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but EVENTUALLY the link will be reflected as removed?
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You may have success by requesting removal of the cached version of the page using the URL removal tool; however, I'm assuming you aren't the site owner, and thus do not have access to the forum's URL removal tool.
It really depends on the site. If it's a highly trafficked forum, it is likely crawled frequently. You may see it updated within the week. If it's not, it make a month or so, unfortunately.
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no i mean i manually removed it from the website (forum comment signature link) I dont want to report it because its already been removed. I just want to know how long it would take for WMT to refresh and acknowledge that it's gone.
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go into Google WMT and request URL removal and it will be deindexed the same day
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