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How To Disavow Backlinks In Google Webmaster?

How To Disavow Backlinks In Google Webmaster

If you’re worried about Spammy Bad Backlinks then this post is just for you. Here, we will share the way to tell Google not to consider the mentioned backlinks while assessing your website and how to remove backlinks from webmaster tools using ‘Disavow Backlinks’. 

Low-Quality Backlinks are the backlinks from totally unrelated and untrusted sources. If a website is consists of such backlinks then it can lose almost all its rankings. You can find such backlinks by doing SEO site audit.  It is very important to remove or disallow all such backlinks when assessing your site. These can be done with the help of Disavow links tool of the Google Webmaster.

Non Removal of such backlinks can harm your website. To know whether your site is penalized or not, you can take the help of Google Penalty Checker. You can also check the same on Google Webmaster under Manual Action option.

Manual Action in Google Webmaster

Manual Action in Google Webmaster

Disavow Links Tools

Disavow Links tools was launched by Google in October 2012. This tool allows you to upload a list of low-quality backlinks and tell Google not to take them into account when assessing your site. Of Course, these backlinks are not in your control otherwise removing such backlinks is the best way to get rid of it.

Backlinks for your website or blog

Backlinks to your website or blog

But since these spammy bad low-quality backlinks are not in your control, disavow is the only way to solve this problem.

Follow the below steps to upload disavow backlinks to Google Webmaster tools

  1. Login to your Google Webmaster
  2. To access disavow tools, click here.
  3. Select your website and click Disavow Backlinks

    Disavow Backlinks for your website

    Disavow Backlinks to your website

  4. Click on Disavow Links to upload the backlinks
  5. Upload a text file (*.txt) containing only the links you want to disavow.

    Upload .txt file to disavow backlinks

    Upload .txt file to disavow backlinks

That’s it. Google will now not considered these backlinks while assessing your website.

Note: Though Google will not consider these backlinks while assessing your site, it is always advisable to remove such backlinks than simply disavow it. Simply disavowing them isn’t enough. More Information is available at this link.

Even Google is also telling the same thing. Check out the below image for the same.

Disavow Backlinks for your website

Disavow Backlinks to your website

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Now your turn. If you know any other way to remove such spammy and low-quality backlinks then please share with us. You can share your answer in below comment box. Further feel free to contact us if you face any problem in using disavow tools. We will be happy to help you.

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