How to remove the certain backlinks completely ?

[Ivek99]

Hello,

I have deleted certain backlinks manually a few months ago. they dont longer exist. but even today Google Webmaster tools and MOZ backlink tool shows this backlinks. Why ?

what i need to do to remove them completely ?

Thank you

[BlueprintMarketing]

I agree with Jane.

I apologize earlier I assumed you had done a disavowal request.

There is not much harm in waiting a month to find out if the site has been crawled and then see if Google reflects the changes in Webmaster tools.

However if you do a disavowal you could possibly do damage to your your site's ranking.

As I believe someone already has said sites that have had links less likely to get crawled as often as sites that are not in need of link removal.

Therefore I could definitely be the problem.

Sincerely,

Thomas

[JaneCopland]

I would wait another few weeks to a month - if the links are still showing up in WMT, use the disavow tool.

If you are penalised (manually or algorithmically), and are sure that those links are the reason, that's another reason to use the disavow tool too.

[Ivek99]

Hi

therefore, in your opinion then I do not need to do that with disavowal tool ?

Thank you

[JaneCopland]

Hi Ivan,

Here's information on how to do file a disavowal file and reconsideration request. The reconsideration request and disavowal should really only be used if you have been penalised, but you can make the decision whether or not to use it based on the severity of the problem too.

Cheers,

Jane

[Ivek99]

Hi,

thank you for the help all

just in case if links do not disappear from GWT... How am I supposed to fill disavowal / reconsideration request ?

[JaneCopland]

Hi Ivan,

The links no longer physically exist, so Google should end up picking up on the fact that they are gone soon. It surprises me that it's been several months and they're still showing up, however. That said, if the links are from a source that Google has no reason to regularly crawl, it can take a long time before they re-visit and find that those links are gone.

If the links are causing you ranking problems, consider a disavowal / reconsideration request submission in which you say that the links are gone and that Google simply has not picked up on this yet.

Cheers,

Jane

[Ivek99]

The problem is that I have removed that links manually...  and now several months later they are still showed in GWT...

therefore I do not need to worry about that ? they will go away with time from GWT and other ?

Thank you

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Just to clarify, if you remove a link manually, the link will be removed from the likes of GWT and other back-link sources eventually. If you were to disavow a link through GWT, this will still show up (as the link is never actually removed), but there is a kind of invisible no-follow added to it which will completely remove your association with the site.

As David said, if the link has been removed manually, then you don't need to worry about doing anything else or notifying any services.

-Andy

[Kingof5]

If you've deleted the links then you're fine. All the tools - OSE, WMT, etc. - are just slow at catching up.

[Ivek99]

Hi

thank you for the help.  I did not used disavow tool from Google. I have personally deleted this links.... and they are no longer there... so, do i need to use disavow tool or not ?

thank you

[Travis_Bailey]

If the links are gone, then they are gone. GWT is just displaying a small sample of links that have been crawled. Maybe the bot hasn't crawled, or won't crawl, the pages again.

Or perhaps the links haven't been sufficiently removed. When something goes off the rails, all kinds of pages can be generated. /Page and /page would be a good example. This is a little outside of the direct question but it's something to think about.

Just keep in mind that all of this backlink data comes from different sources that update at different times. Check out Ahrefs, as Thomas said. Ahrefs tends to have the freshest crawl data, but there's no guarantee they've crawled your unwanted links either.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I agree with Martijn Google does not have to do anything just because you ask it to. The most powerful method would be to be certain it is in the data from your disavow filed and it was filed properly.

The links are still going to exist in this world they will just no longer hurt your site. If you need to double check your work here is more information

can you find the links in Google by typing in "site:example.com/your-unwanted-link/"

no parentheses

http://www.removeem.com/

http://www.rankrescue.com/

http://seogadget.com/cleanup-contact-easily-gather-link-data/

http://seogadget.com/hidden-quantcast-links/

what I would do is use all 3 http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ , https://www.majesticseo.com/ as well as https://ahrefs.com/

if you see that the link is dead in one of these other tools that you will not have to worry about it says it has been removed properly it just has not been updated in the index.

I hope this helps,

Thomas

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Ivan,

If you have 'removed' those links via a disavow file or another way to tell Google that these links shouldn't be counted as links to your site then that's all for now you can do about it. There's no way for now to tell Google Webmaster Tools or Moz to ignore certain links from other sites to yours. Google Webmaster Tools for example is for example not incorporating the data from your disavow file.