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Trouble using Google Disavow Tool, help please

by Jeannie Crabtree
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I have had some negative seo done to some sites and decided to finally
give the Google Disavow Tool a try.

I am having trouble with the disavow tool. I am using Notepad so this would
be a text file.

Domains are listed like this:
# domain:example1.com
# http://example2/c/

With no blanks between lines.

But I get "You successfully uploaded a disavow links file (MyWebsite.com.txt)
containing 0 domains and 0 URLs".

So I guess Notepad is not the txt file to submit. What should I use?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
#disavow #google #tool #trouble
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Your text file can include additional information about excluded links, as long as each line of description begins with the "#" character (all lines beginning with # will be ignored).
    Try removing the hash tag (#) from the beginning of each line. Assumes the entire text file is links you want disavowed (not good links).
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
      I understood I was to have # at the beginning of the line. But will try it
      without, as I had no comments that I added in.

      Thanks for your help.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Jeannie Crabtree View Post

        I understood I was to have # at the beginning of the line. But will try it
        without, as I had no comments that I added in.

        Thanks for your help.


        In the google instructions it says

        "You’ll download a file containing all the pages linking to your site. Use this to create a text file (the file type must be .txt and it must be encoded in UTF-8 or 7-bit ASCII) containing only the links you want to disavow—one link per line. If you want Google to ignore all links from an entire domain (like example.com), add the line "domain:example.com". Your text file can include additional information about excluded links, as long as each line of description begins with the "#" character (all lines beginning with # will be ignored). Don't upload the entire list of links to your site: the text file that you upload is the list of links you want Google to ignore.
        Example

        Here's a sample of a valid file:

        # example.com removed most links, but missed these
        http://spam.example.com/stuff/comments.html
        http://spam.example.com/stuff/paid-links.html
        # Contacted owner of shadyseo.com on 7/1/2012 to
        # ask for link removal but got no response
        domain:shadyseo.com"
        Those hash tags (#) in the Google example are comment lines. The comment lines are most likely for any type of manual review If needed.

        The lines without the hash tags are the actual URLs you want Google to ignore/disavow.
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  • Profile picture of the author FranksToys
    Unfortunately the disavow tool won't work for whatever you are intending it to do. It was created to simply crowd source data for penguin, not to remove unnatural links.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
      That is one train of thought I have heard over the years. I am being mentored and they suggest doing it,
      so will see.


      Originally Posted by FranksToys View Post

      Unfortunately the disavow tool won't work for whatever you are intending it to do. It was created to simply crowd source data for penguin, not to remove unnatural links.
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