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Warning! Google's Disavow Links Tool is a Trojan Horse for SEO/SEM

by ecm
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For so long now Google’s Matt Cutts has been fear mongering with his propaganda machine in order to manipulate SEO and SEM behaviour, by deluding people to think that Google’s anti-spam technology is far more sophisticated than it actually is. In turn the SEO industry has become increasingly sophisticated to outsmart Google. Ultimately our methods for manipulating Google are now beyond what Google can algorithmically detect.

So Google crafted new changes in their algorithms specifically, and intentionally, to bring about negative SEO en masse. Predictably, the industry responds with, "Please, please give us a disavow links tool". When the negative SEO hysteria hits an all-time high, Google finally responds and gives us a tool that will turn SEO's and SEM's all over the world into free outsourced labour to manually do Google's job for it. The disavow links tool is completely anti-SEO as you might expect. It is like handing people shovels to dig 6 foot holes in the dirt with the promise of gold, and then burying them in it. It's a user-powered tattle-tale machine and it will serve no good for anyone but Google.

It’s a classic example of the Hegelian Dialectic in use, this time not by a government, but by Google. Don't be fooled.

Matthew Woodward has written a detailed article about it that is well worth reading at Why Google Disavow Is Bad News For SEO - Matthew Woodward

Source: Matt Cutts and Google’s Disavow Links Tool is a Trojan Horse for SEO & SEM | Articles for Website Developers | Web Design Front
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewWoodward
    Thanks for sharing my post on your blog mate

    I really do hope people stop & think about the disavow tool before going balls deep with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author ecm
      Originally Posted by MatthewWoodward View Post

      Thanks for sharing my post on your blog mate

      I really do hope people stop & think about the disavow tool before going balls deep with it.
      You're welcome, Matthew. It's worth sharing. It amazes me how people never seem to connect the disparity between what Matt Cutts says and what Google actually does. I guess people find it easy enough to just believe the propaganda so long as it is plausible, but to think of Matt Cutts or Google as being in any way on the side of IM and SEO's is just so naive. You have to tread very carefully and read in between the lines in this game.
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    • Profile picture of the author CYCLONE
      Thanks for sharing this, it will certainly help me in the future...
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  • Profile picture of the author daddykool
    Huh?

    G, like all the other *new* internet companies, have still missed the point that the web has been around 30 years... thus what was there before, can still be used today... think out of the box and no "Animals" will hurt your sites
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by daddykool View Post

      G, like all the other *new* internet companies, have still missed the point that the web has been around 30 years...

      Hi daddykool,

      30 years?

      Not quite, the first "website" launched on the public internet was 21 years, 2 months, and 12 days ago. There were earlier versions under development, but the first release to the public occurred on August 6th 1991, when Tim Berners-Lee posted his computer code on the alt.hypertext discussion group and his internally developed web server and browser was introduced to the world. That date marks the birth of the World Wide Web.

      While the WWW came into existence in 1991, it was barely noticed until April 1993 when Mosaic, the first PC web browser was introduced and thousands of people began discovering this new thing called the Word Wide Web. So for all but a small group of physicists, the web has been around for less than 20 years, and Google has been around for 13 of those years.

      The main search engine before Google's arrival was Alta Vista, however many web users did not use search engines back in those days. Browsing directories and surfing the web (often through clicking banner ads) was the popular way of finding information on the web before Google came along and made search engines more popular than web directories.

      Face it, Google made search popular with the masses and everyone else has been trying to copy and keep with them ever since. The only pre-Google method of promotion that is still highly effective is the use of banner advertisements, and even for that market Google dominates.
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      • Profile picture of the author mamadou
        I think we must concentrate on building links from High PR quality sites and ignore low PR and low quality sites from now on. Just to be in the safe side.

        I think authority social links will become more valuable than ever in the near future.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    This disavow tool business is like a threesome where only two get off. People are going to use this tool as part of their recovery efforts and it WILL most likely benefit them and yes, it will benefit Google as well. The third (link sellers, private networks, etc) will probably get screwed. ( or not )

    How is that bad for SEO and the internet ? You must think SEO is the junk, no-merit links that are easy to get ? That's not all there is to it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by retsek View Post


      How is that bad for SEO and the internet ? You must think SEO is the junk, no-merit links that are easy to get ? That's not all there is to it.
      Ret seriously. You are preaching about easy to get links?

      You are on record here that you BUY links. Even if it were true that private networks will get screwed (I don't have any customers who fell from Penguin or any updates this year) how in the world can you talk about junk no merit links when you pay for links? You do realize the sites you buy links from are operating as a SEO network for you? Right?
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Yes I buy links. And i believe you do too. There's a difference between buying a link on related sites after reviewing it carefully, and buying 100 or whatever the number may be off the WSO section for $15.

    So yes, I mix up my SEO. Most of my links are earned based on content or through outreach, and when I do buy links ....I ensure the links don't appear to be obviously paid for.

    I also think paying good money for a link is not exactly the "easy to get" kind. Most people would cringe at paying $300+ for 1 link. A certain barrier to entry there, no ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by retsek View Post

      Yes I buy links. And i believe you do too. There's a difference between buying a link on related sites after reviewing it carefully, and buying 100 or whatever the number may be off the WSO section for $15.
      Yes I do buy link and domains (but you have seemed in the past to be against that as well). However I am no tthe one making any argument about junk and no merit links.

      What would that be diference? the price? You reviewing them or not doesn't change the fact that those links are manipulated by good old cash money not great content so I still don't understand your no merit argument - more cash makes for more merit to the content linked to?

      So yes, I mix up my SEO. Most of my links are earned based on content or through outreach, and when I do buy links ....I ensure the links don't appear to be obviously paid for.
      Sure but if you have to buy them then how does that equate to the content getting them on "merit". You are right back where every one else is claiming that your content has merit but you initiating the link and in our case (yes I buy links and domains as well) you flat out manipulate the link by buying it.

      I also think paying good money for a link is not exactly the "easy to get" kind. Most people would cringe at paying $300+ for 1 link. A certain barrier to entry there, no ?
      It could be two thousand it doesn't change the fact that you buy them and don't get the links strictly on the merit. I just find it hilarious that you seem to be claiming that the price tag of the links you buy and the inability of others to buy at that price is what distinguishes a link being a "no-merit link.

      I do agree with the barrier to entry principle and that people have to pay more but this can hurt people paying ten dollars for a link and it can affect people paying $2,000 for a link
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  • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
    I divorced all contact with Google a long time ago.

    No gmail, no analytics, no webmaster tools and certainly no disavow.

    Call me paranoid. I know they dont want to rank what i am doing, so i am not going to give them any help in catching me whatsoever.
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  • Profile picture of the author jovykhan
    I don't think Google did not consider the fact that a link might be low quality for others but may not for the other one...not en masse.

    No one can really tell if a certain link is the reason behind any penalties.

    If somebody disavow a link from Google itself would would it goes to other external links as well? Would Google devalue its links to someone who thinks it has still value?
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