Disavowing ain't an easy proces, it takes time and knowledge.

With this guide we try to make your life a little easier by showing you how to get rid of the most spammy links.

Before disavowing I would recommend you first try to get rid of the links yourself.

Did you buy spammy links before? Ask your provider to remove them.

However most of the time they used automated tools and won't be able or unwiling to remove them but at least it's worth a try of course.


Get ready, here we go:

- Sign up to Google Webmasters if you haven't done yet
- Download all the links from Google Webmasters
- Load all the links in Scrapebox
- Run a Pagerank check on them
- Sort them on pagerank from high to low
- Go through all the links with PR manually
- Click "Remove/Filter"
- Select "Remove urls containing"
- Type in the domain name of the high PR links that you do NOT want to disavow


Why? Cause we are trimming the list as much as possible so that in the end we can send over the whole list to Disavow

In other words we are keeping the links that we want to disavow.

It's important to only type in the domain name so that inner pages remain.

You know when you place a high PR blog post there are more pages created then just the root url, and you want to keep those.

The high PR links that you want to keep in your disavow list are blog comments and other spammy url's with tons of OBL.

When all went well you should now be left with a list of links that are all PR0 or PR n/a, and also some higher PR's but you already checked them and decided you want to disavow them.

To make your job a little easier you can also:

- save all your high PR links in a text file first
- Reload that list in Scrapebox to replace the current list
- Launch up the Add-on named "Scrapebox Outbound Link Checker"
- And check all those URL's for amount of OBL
- Get rid of the ones with >100 OBL
- But remove them by loading the original list again
- Use the "remove/filter"---> "Remove url's containing" same like I explained above

Ok, now we have a list of mainly PR0 and PR n/a links left.

Download Netpeak Checker from the web

Load the whole list in there

Select filters:

- PA
- Trust Flow
- MozRank
- MozTrust
- Googe Indexed

And click START

The thing is Google hasn't updated PR for a long time so it could very well possible that many of your PRn/a and PR0 links actually cary quite some value.

Now what I would do is remove the links that you want to keep, so that when you start exporting the list you only keep the ones that you want to disavow.

I would say keep the links with a trust flow higher then 3 and a PA of 10+ ( these are just some numbers, fill in as you like of course)

Now run the filtered list through Scrapebox again and use the outbound link checker and get rid of the ones with many OBL.

There's a very good chance that there are still spammy links in the ones that you removed based on those filters so this is not a 100% bullet proof method of course.

However the majority of your spam links should still be in your list and it's not always needed to get rid of every single link.

As a last check I would go manually through your list to see if there are any niche relevant links among them.

Other links you might want to keep are natural links like:

- Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest and such
- Wordpress / Tumblr / Squidoo (assuming you used unique content)
- Niche relevant links
- Digg / Delicious / FolkD (asuming you used unique content)
- Youtube / Metacafe / Vimeo
- Slideshare / Docstoc (asuming you used unique content)
- and some more links at the top platforms that you put time in before

Sure those links are weak, but if you used unique content and made them yourself it makes no sense to disavow them, it's only natural to have some of those links.

Another step that you should actually do is before you remove the links you want to keep, that you copy them to a separate text file.

Then load them up in Spyglass and check the anchor text of the links.

In case you used many of the same anchor text you might want to get rid of some more links to prevent over optimization.

Some other links you might want to disavow are sitewide links (in the 100's for example) that use exact anchor text but not before you make an attempt requesting the webmaster in question to change the anchor text to your URL.

Additionally you can also do a quick PR check based on the root domains and perhaps you find some links at PR7+ platforms (which indicates at least that it's a high quality site that you have a link on) that you want to keep, all the real spammy platforms like the 100's of bookmarks blasts, or the 1000's of forum profiles are mostly based on PR2, PR3, PR4, PR5 domains and such, not really the top of the food level.

Are you missing something in this guide or don't you agree with certain parts? Let use know so we can all get wiser from it.

This guide is meant to get rid of the most spammy links, I don't think there's a perfect way to disavow, especially not in a full automated way but leave your comments so we can only make it better.