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I was wondering if moz allows you to upload your disavow file and if it has a consideration in the data supplied?

Otherwise how can we accurately use moz to understand the true analytics of our site?

George

Thank you for your insight and you are right its a tough decision which needs to be made before we move forward.  I will research it a bit more over the weekend and make a decision on Monday.

All the best and have a great weeekend.

Karl

Thanks George these are all very real risks however, we are starting to rank for some tough highly competitive keywords which puzzles me because if we had a penalty surely it would be sitewide rather than specific terms. Also I noticed than if you search our domain moneysite.com on google we have sitelinks, which I am not sure you would have if a penalty was imposed.

We could go with .net which we own however, could we 301 redirect .com to the .net or would that cause issues for the .net.

Hi George

We have analysed all backlinks and disavowed a ton of toxic links that the previous owners created. We did evaluate the domain before the purchase however, we did not have access to the previous owners webmaster tools to see if a manual penalty was imposed at that time.

Hi George

Thanks for the response.

Although the domain is 11 years old has only recently gone live so we cannot judge analytics data.  There are no manual penalties that I can see in GWT however, we only acquired the domain in January 2014.

Hi

I have a site which shows on page 25 in G serps for the main brand keyword which is also the url its a .com and as far as I can see has no penalties and has unique content. The keyword itself has no competition and the site should be no1 in G for it.  Our site domain is 11 years old.