why disavow tool should be the last resort to use in google?
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I agree, you don't have to wait for Disavow to start working. You should contact the webmasters of those sites and ask them to remove the link. I had more than 50 bad links posted on my site, I wrote to the webmaster and asked him to remove all the links and he did it very quickly. I know it's not always possible, but you should try
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After some good years of getting traffic or so, you will surely see a lot of bad links appearing in GSC report. If you think that they could hurt you, simply disavow it. Its not a big deal. But you should know that, or at least feel that, they're harming your website.
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As mentioned above, the older your site the more crappy links you'll get. Everybody gets crappy links so it's easier to just ignore them. It's when you do NOT get any links, I find unnatural.
About disavow... it's the last resort as it's useless so it's the last hope for people to recover sites; grasping at straws.
About disavow... it's the last resort as it's useless so it's the last hope for people to recover sites; grasping at straws.
- Apr 25, 2014
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It works when it's clear to Google that you're being hit with 100s of spam links at once.
It does work, it just takes forever to really appear to have worked. If you've seen people say last resort, that's probably why.
It does work, it just takes forever to really appear to have worked. If you've seen people say last resort, that's probably why.
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Unfortunately there is no other options except disavow the links and manual removing links. If those links created by you then you can ask the bloggers to remove those links or if your competitor made those you should disavow them. Make sure you are getting quality links before you buy it from them!
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The Disavow Tool simply takes too long to work.
You can do a search for old threads on this topic on this forum.
This seems to be the consensus.
The key is to create more content, do more interlinking, and try to offset the negative backlinks that somebody is intentionally pointing at your site.
Also, if you are the target of a negative SEO campaign, depending on how they do it, it would be very easy for Google to discount those links.
In fact, some people have posted on this forum that either they or somebody tried to do negative SEO on them, and it didn't really work because the links were built pretty much within a very narrow period of time.
Talk about unnatural!
There's even some chatter along the lines that Google has a built-in "unnatural link activity" filter so this is basically interpreted as noise.
Still, this is speculation so do your research and be proactive in terms of adding more content and interlinking as well as earning higher quality backlinks from the rest of the Internet.
You can do a search for old threads on this topic on this forum.
This seems to be the consensus.
The key is to create more content, do more interlinking, and try to offset the negative backlinks that somebody is intentionally pointing at your site.
Also, if you are the target of a negative SEO campaign, depending on how they do it, it would be very easy for Google to discount those links.
In fact, some people have posted on this forum that either they or somebody tried to do negative SEO on them, and it didn't really work because the links were built pretty much within a very narrow period of time.
Talk about unnatural!
There's even some chatter along the lines that Google has a built-in "unnatural link activity" filter so this is basically interpreted as noise.
Still, this is speculation so do your research and be proactive in terms of adding more content and interlinking as well as earning higher quality backlinks from the rest of the Internet.