Google Disavow - Need Some Advice

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Hi,

I am purging the spammy and irrelevant backlinks to one of my sites.
Too bad that Google Webmaster Tools and Google.com don't display all the backlinks...

So I type in the URL "www.mysite.com" and give it a search. Then a plethora of spammy backlinks appear.

9.100+ pages! 90-95 % of those are spam/irrelevant/linkfarm/content-farm/SEO tools/site stats (like Whois) etc.

I have 2 questions:

1) Should I "clean up" thoroughly? Take out about 8.500 spammy/unwanted backlinks? That would take like a month if I purged 300 a day! (and I'd have to check each one manually to make sure...)

2) Should I also erase those SEO tool/WHOIS-like sit info pages?
(I already purge about 50-60 of them and took almost an hour to look up, verify and copy-paste into the disavow file to upload...).

It's a good site that delivered decent traffic in the past and I'm trying ot get it back up (prolly after a Penguin-Jaws bite!)

Advice will be much appreciated
#advice #disavow #google
  • Profile picture of the author surferman
    If your site is within first 10 pages of google it is ok to purge them. if not just forget about it.. it will be worthless. get a new domain and continue working on it.
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    • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
      Originally Posted by surferman View Post

      If your site is within first 10 pages of google it is ok to purge them. if not just forget about it.. it will be worthless. get a new domain and continue working on it.
      No way! This is my main site, can't leave it!

      The spammy sites aren't that many. It's rather these automatic SEO/WHOIS type sites bother me...

      Like this:
      warriorforum.com

      Warriorforum has plenty of such backlinks as well.

      I already put 199 spammy backlinks to my disavow list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    You can block whole domain's from linking to you by just disavowing the ROOT url
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    What are you using to identify the bad / low quality links?
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    • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
      Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO View Post

      What are you using to identify the bad / low quality links?
      Google Webmaster Tools shows them and I am checking them manually...
      AWSTATS shows incoming traffic from some spam sites, so I put them on the list too...
      And if I type into Google: "www.mysite.com", then all sites containing the URL appear (of course, this is more effective than the "link:" command)

      Suggestions?
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    Shipwrecked... if you send me a pm I'll hook you up with a software tool that will speed this process up for you. You should get some good benefits with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ronno99
    If you get a few really solid gold links Google will tend to ignore the spammy links. Or I guess you could just start over but I can't imagine ever spending the time to remove links personally.
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  • Profile picture of the author DouglasP
    what's your website PR? PR4 above, spam back links will no hurt the website ranking. if PR 0, PR 1, or 2. Fast remove such spam back links.
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    • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
      Originally Posted by DouglasP View Post

      what's your website PR? PR4 above, spam back links will no hurt the website ranking. if PR 0, PR 1, or 2. Fast remove such spam back links.
      Dropped from PR 4 to 2, which came as a shock, there was a time I was expecting PR 5.

      I am actually rebuilding a rather old site, but one that has potential.

      I am removing all "unquestionably spam" links.

      Do you also have to SEO TOOLS/WHOIS-type page links?
      I see these sites creating automatic "about", "whois", "seo score", "site value" stats pages about all sites.

      These backlinks are about 8,000 pieces...
      But the really spammy, linkfarms are only about 300-500 max. I think.

      I am definitely removing the latter. Have already purged 199

      But the SEO/whois-type pages... I don't know if those hurt.

      Do they?
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