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how safe is disavowing?

by dorrotman
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hi,
question that i hope will interest anyone buying links
i have a few links which i don't like at all. they seem spamy to me.
google hasn't said anything about these links, no warning, flagging or anything.
but still i think they are spamy and want them taken off.
i contacted the guy who did them for me and he says he can't/won't take them off.

how safe or how much sense does it make to dasavowe those links in google webmaster, even if google haven't said anything is wrong with these links?

hope you have some good answers and find this interesting
Dor
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  • Profile picture of the author mightygeek
    Originally Posted by dorrotman View Post

    hi,
    question that i hope will interest anyone buying links
    i have a few links which i don't like at all. they seem spamy to me.
    google hasn't said anything about these links, no warning, flagging or anything.
    but still i think they are spamy and want them taken off.
    i contacted the guy who did them for me and he says he can't/won't take them off.

    how safe or how much sense does it make to dasavowe those links in google webmaster, even if google haven't said anything is wrong with these links?

    hope you have some good answers and find this interesting
    Dor
    If GWT doesn't showed any negative message about the links, then usually there is no sense in disavowing those links.

    Even-though, if you would like to disavow those links, it's no harm -except your rankings associated with those links will be cut-off! It is completely safe on disavowing links.

    If you made mistake in uploading good links in any way, there is a way to remove too, by correcting the disavow file & re-uploading it.

    You should only submit those links, which violates Google's guidelines
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  • Profile picture of the author kradha707
    Hi,

    If you install this disavowing tool, what ever the back links you have , you will lost all (either it is 0 page rank or 6 or anything), so instead of installing this tool, just create one robot.txt file and put all those links, which you have found those links not at all useful for your site.

    If you already have robot.txt file then just edit it and include it in sitemap file and submit that sitemap to google, once google crawls your site you can come to know through webmaster tools.

    Why we are using this robot.txt file instead of installing disavowing tool, means if you include these url's, google won't crawl the url's which robot.txt is having rite now, so slowly you can remove those unwanted links.

    My best suggestion is to keep those links into robot.txt.

    Thank you...
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    • Profile picture of the author neha12
      Originally Posted by kradha707 View Post

      Hi,

      If you install this disavowing tool, what ever the back links you have , you will lost all (either it is 0 page rank or 6 or anything), so instead of installing this tool, just create one robot.txt file and put all those links, which you have found those links not at all useful for your site.

      If you already have robot.txt file then just edit it and include it in sitemap file and submit that sitemap to google, once google crawls your site you can come to know through webmaster tools.

      Why we are using this robot.txt file instead of installing disavowing tool, means if you include these url's, google won't crawl the url's which robot.txt is having rite now, so slowly you can remove those unwanted links.

      My best suggestion is to keep those links into robot.txt.

      Thank you...
      Robots.txt can disallow only internal links, not external website links.
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  • Profile picture of the author JerrickYeoh
    If you worry about next update where those link bring you in trouble then would be better to submit those URL to disavow link. It would be the best move seem strongly recommended by Matt Cutt.
    If Google din give any warning, you should be safe because Google might just ignore those links and don't give weight and it won't affect your ranking.
    Unless the links building keep on rise then you need to take further action on it.
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    • Profile picture of the author MontrealSEO
      You mention a great point about having reviewed your link profile and discovering links that are either unwanted, unsolicited or irrelevant.

      In this article: The Difference Between Penguin and an Unnatural Links Penalty (and some info on Panda too) | SEOmoz, the author mentions that while it is possible you may not have received a manual "unnatural links" penalty which would warrant a link profile review and potential disavowal, she has also stated that disavowing links BEFORE they are viewed as problematic/spammy by Google as a way to combat Penguin "may" work in the sense that once disavowed (and once there is a Penguin algo refresh) rankings may go back up if that has been a problem.

      It could also be that whereby Google had previously given the type of links you want to remove some positive link juice and thus increased rankings, that now these have been entirely/partially devalued - so this might mean that even upon having disavowed them you may lose some ranking.

      A very touchy subject indeed, but one worth investigating and testing.

      Also of note in the comments of the same article is a link to a form for those who feel their site was wrongly "attacked" by Penguin - in effect a type of "Penguin reconsideration request" which might also apply here.

      Good luck.
      Jeff
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