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Remember to focus on user experiences your not designing the website for yourself but rather for your customers.

@mpc2222 Depends if you can be bothered to do it or not I suppose.

Try Semrush they allow 7 days free trial they are awesome for backlink audits especially with the full version. Most of the time I get away with the free version of SEMRush with limits for smaller sites.

This is common and can sometimes be easy to fix. Sometimes as simple as the setting of some HTTP rewrite rules in the .htaccess file. You will need to secure your domain for the wildcard domain including www when issuing an SSL certificate.

If you are using WordPress there are add-ons such as Really Simple SSL to help you with this.

Example of Rewrite

RewriteEngine On
# This will enable the Rewrite capabilities

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
# Replace domain with your domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# Replace domain with your domain.

This .htaccess rule will redirect all visitors from the non-www to the www version of your website.

[https://www.hostinger.co.uk/tutorials/cpanel/how-to-redirect-non-www-urls-to-www](link url)

This is the most common way however if you use CPanel it might be slightly different you might need to set up a redirect.

If you use Cloudflare you can just use some page rules and use a forwarding URL with 301 permanently redirected to the non-www of the domain.

Since we can use both www and non-www make sure your DNS records are updated for both.

Page speed is most important for your user's experience. You will likely see a high bounce rate if you have a slow site.

Create quality backlinks from sites that have a trustworthy link profile. To create quality content there are lots of things you could be doing to improve your DA but most of all follow Google's standards.

@solvewebmedia A lot of people will tell you it's pointless to disavow the links unless your site has received some kind of manual penalty. I think it's always best to keep your links organized but it can become quite tedious doing this so I use SemRush to see if any toxic sites are linking to mine and if they are I disavow them right away. My site was showing some toxic backlinks. The site is in the hacking niche and we regularly get some users sharing links in places like Tor and low-quality blogger style sites however we can't really dictate where the user shares these links so I use SEMRush it gives you an indication of any backlink that is toxic or indicators of what other SEMRush users added to their lists. I looked into a couple of these domains further and they had been deindexed by Google even though Google ignores or devalues them links I still wanted to add them to my Disavow list so other users in SEMRush could see the indicators and disavow these links early on.

Disqus comments probably won't bring much juice with them this is because they are a really common way to get backlinks. But I think they will pass some worth if they're counted but not as much as a backlink from a high-quality news website would. Most people can get their hands on these backlinks. Going for a more unique backlink profile shows you are not just following the everyday norms like most webmasters are.

As Chris Gregory says the comments are likely being rendered into HTML from Javascript which means that the backlink would probably only be counted if it was on a WordPress site using Disqus these are just my personal opinion and I will be doing some more research on this myself.

@domain-matty Thank you, Domain Matty, for providing some extra insights can I ask what you look for yourself other than DA and spam score when buying a domain do you tend to go with domains that have a history, or do you tend to ignore them domains while making buying decisions. A lot of people really don't know what they are buying when they are buying a domain name other than whether it sounds good or if it fits their brand.

@solvewebmedia Almost certainly the sites you mention are riddled with spam scores often spam score is a good indicator of a high toxicity score. If it was me I would disavow them Google often ignores any low-quality links just encase your domain was subject to a spam SEO attack. That's why the disavow tools come in perfect.