My Domain has a couple of badlinks decreasing my rankings, will disavowing them reduce my Domain Authority on Moz?

[Newswatchng]

Good day Every Body,

I have a heart aching issue, my site (nightwatchng.com) amassed a number carnivorous backlinks, I have lost rankings, i studied my search traffic and discovered that I have been hit by Google Penguin Algorithm Penalty, I was forced to believe that those backlinks were built to my site on purpose just so my rankings will drop, I know the importance of link building and thats why i follow the white hat technique.

Now the big question is, IF I DISAVOW THESE TERRIBLE LINKS FROM GOOGLE SEARCH, WILL MY MOZ DOMAIN AUTHORITY DROP FROM WHAT IT CURRENTLY HAS??

I also want to know if the Algorithm Penalty will affect the subdomain (news nightwatchng.com) of my site?

[BlueprintMarketing]

Using link research tools I was able to find out you have approximately Backlinks 569K with only Ref Domains 1K

that is not a great ratio.

One of the things I think that is extremely important that you know in conducting research on your site using builtwith.com I was able to find out that you have different canonical's for three of your four possible domains

• https://www.
• https://
• http://www.
• http://

This is something I noticed when looking at your site and has a lot to do with link equity all of your redirects are pointing to different URLs with different canonical's

https://i.imgur.com/hJz4w1o.png

This is an excellent tutorial on how to force HTTPS using Nginx or Apache

https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/

if you need a lot of help with this stuff Kinsta also a very good WordPress hosting company

**If your web server is running Nginx, **

server {
listen 80;
server_name nightwatchng.com www.nightwatchng.com;
return 301 https://nightwatchng.com$request_uri;
}

If your web server is running Apache,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

You can also just use  plug-in but I recommend not using plug-ins if you don't have to this one's very lightweight

https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/

you may also need to use redirect rules like this one

https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/

https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/www-to-nonwww/

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.nightwatchng.com$
RewriteRule (.*) https://nightwatchng.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

A similar tool for nginx

https://www.scalescale.com/tips/nginx/nginx-redirection-www/

Redirect non-www to www for all your domains
Place this code inside your server block {}:

**return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri ;**

The full example in a server block {} to:

server {
   server_name "~^www.(.*)$" ;
   return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri ;
}

Redirect www to non-www

Redirect www to non-www for a single domain
Place this code inside your server block {}:

return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri;

Example:

server {
   server_name www.mysite.com;
   return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri;
}

• https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/218411427-Page-Rules-Tutorial
• https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170536-How-do-I-redirect-all-visitors-to-HTTPS-SSL-
• https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/

Hope this helps,

Tom

PS

(I really wish there was a way for this tool to save a draft because I just wrote a very long reply and it's gone. Either way here is a shorter version of what I had written before.)

hJz4w1o.png

[Newswatchng]

Its really tormenting

[GastonRiera]

Hi there,

1. Disavowing bad links. No, it won't hurt your DA or PA.
2. It's not confirmed by any official source, but having an algorithm penalty in a big portion of your site could hurt other subdirectories or subdomains

On the side, you should ABSOLUTELY not focus on private metrics as PA/DA, Domain rank, TF or what ever name any tool has for their metrics. Those metrics only reflect what that tool considers. It's known that having a high DA wont make you rank #1 for every keyword and having a low DA is not an impediment for ranking #1 and/or ranking higher that sites with high DA.
Also, as you are disavowing those links, every link profiler has an option to upload a list of disavowed links. Moz has its own.

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR