Removing Domains From Disavow File
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We may have accidentally included the wrong domains in our Disavow file and have since removed most domains leaving the only very highly rated spammy links (using moz's new spam score)in the file.
How long can it take for to google to recognise this change?ThanksMike
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Great! Thank you for your help.
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Hi Mike,
I recommend you to read this guide of spam score from Moz:
https://moz.com/help/guides/link-explorer/spam-score
Start reading on this part: "Another site's Spam Score - Again, this doesn't mean that these sites are spammy. This percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is just based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to disregard sites or disavow links with higher Spam Scores. Instead, we'd recommend using it as a guide for kick starting investigations. Be sure to check out a site's content and its relevance in linking back to you before disregarding or disavowing."
I personally never use Disavow Links Tool. I manually delete links or simply create new ones to reduce to percentaje of "spammy links" or the percentaje of links that have the same anchor...
But if I had to say a spam rating where I would use the disavow links tool, it probably would be higher than 60-80%, depending on my personal opinion of how spammy I see the website. If I see it very spammy, higher than 60%, if a don't see it very spammy, higher than 80%.
Hope that helps
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Hi Pau Pl
Thank you for the response,How often do you advise to use the disavow file? for example we use the new Moz tool that provides a spam rating from 1 to 100% and we tend to disavow links from site that are higher than 80% with active links (99% of these are from hotlinking image sites).ThanksMike
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Hi mlb7,
Matt Cutts explained this around 2015:
When you are disavowing links, you can know that a link in your disavow file is considered disavowed once you see that Google has cached the page where the link resides. But when it comes to reavowing, we have no way of knowing when Google is going to start counting that link again or whether it will be given the same weight.
Reavowing a link can “take a lot longer than disavowing it,” though no one knows how long that is. Google wants to be really certain that spammers are not going to try to figure out which links are helping or hurting them by doing disavow and reavow experiments.
I recommend you to take a look to this video from Matt Cutts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=393nmCYFRtA
Sources:
https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2409081/can-you-reavow-links-you-have-peviously-disavowed
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-disavow-links/Hope that helps, good luck!
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