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How to confirm if DISVOW of bad links is done?

by Claudio Johnson
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I disvowed TON of bad linkks(from NEG SEO) a month ago. How to know if Google acted on them?
#bad #confirm #disvow #links
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There is no way to know for sure.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claudio Johnson
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      There is no way to know for sure.
      But they do it at-least, right?

      I heard that DISVOW doesn't work(in this forum only by some members).
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There is no guarantee that they pay any attention to your disavow file, according to Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    IMO the disavow tool is most likely used by Google to tweak their algo for determining link quality.

    What better way than to use real people to train an algo. on flushing out paid links. Take thousands of real opinions (webmasters) & use the average for control points in an algo. Now take that never ending supply of real data & automate the algo. to continuously tweak itself for years.

    Keep in mind thousands of people buying backlink packages, seeing their page drop in the SERPs, panic mode, next step is disavow the paid links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
    Wouldn't that technically be rraud if the disavow tool did nothing though?

    The seo consensus seems to be that it takes a refresh to see benefits from disavowing. JohnMuller from Google also has said similar things in Google hangouts.

    For the risk of negative seo one would also hope the disavow tool works otherwise that would be a messed up situation with Google, although arguably it already is considering small sites that have been hit by Penguin (that aren't trying to blackhat seo intetionally and were hit from past seo work, etc.)
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Xelaetaks View Post

      Wouldn't that technically be rraud if the disavow tool did nothing though?

      The seo consensus seems to be that it takes a refresh to see benefits from disavowing. JohnMuller from Google also has said similar things in Google hangouts.

      For the risk of negative seo one would also hope the disavow tool works otherwise that would be a messed up situation with Google, although arguably it already is considering small sites that have been hit by Penguin (that aren't trying to blackhat seo intetionally and were hit from past seo work, etc.)
      I'm not saying the disavow tool doesn't do anything, actually the opposite, Google benefits from the free data created by real people. Googles core business model is harvesting data which is what the disavow tool is supplying.

      Using the tool is basically asking to ignore specific hand picked links. The reality of the tool is, it's link sculpting & Google frowns on link sculpting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenny O
    We can not know what Google is doing. Just leave it and keep building your backlinks. The effect will come once Google update. I hope your site will be fine.
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