How disavowing links works?
A link is like the backbone of your website. It is also considered as a vote. Why? You all know that a good backlink helps your site to get higher ranking in search engines and bad links can create a problem for you. I know nobody likes bad or spammy links on their website. You try to get rid of these links as soon as you can. So how do you get rid of such bad links? Simply by disavowing those links. Did you get my point? Wait guys, I haven’t scratched the surface yet. Just keep reading the article till the end to know the concept of “Disavow links” and how they work?
So how do you get rid of such bad links? Simply by disavowing those links. Did you get my point? Wait guys, I haven’t scratched the surface yet. Just keep reading the article till the end to know the concept of “Disavow links” and how they work?
Let’s get started now.
What are disavowing links?
Generally, bad or spammy links are called disavow links. It’s a list of some bad or spam backlinks that hitting your website badly and making your website weak to rank on Google. Disavow is nothing but simply let the search engine know that these links are bad and should not be taken into consideration when assessing the website.
Where do these bad backlinks come from? These spammy or bad links generally come when we purchase links or have violated Google’s policies and have to suffer a penalty if bad links are not removed from the site.
Let’s discuss the work of disavow links below
As you know that disavow links are the spammy or bad links so remove these links form the website we generally “Disavow” links. Basically, the main reason to disavow links is to protect the site from “bad” links that are harmful to any site.
Additionally, you must know that bad or spammy links can be created for many reasons for instance; competitors can use them to try and move higher in the rankings. Basically, disavow is used to save your site from Penguin algorithm.
Disavowing gives you the power to choose individual links or even an entire domain. This prevents links of low quality from dragging down your performance on search. Google gives you the flexibility to disavow individual links. You can also take the help of disavowing link tools to keep your website safe and secure.
How to disavow links?
Disavowing link is a very simple process. First of all, you need to create a text file where you’ll list, one by one, the links or domains which are required to be disavowed in your link portfolio.
You can start it by visiting Google Analytics or other analytics suites. Now you need to determine which link is problematic or spammy for your site and request that bad link to be removed from the offending website first.
If you have a list of problematic links now it’s time to create your disavow link file. A disavow file is a text file having special formatting that allows Google to recognize the links you specify. These are the files which are analyzed by Google in depth. So if your file isn’t formatted correctly, it will be rejected. Make sure your disavow file must:
- Be a text file – end has to be in .txt.
- Be encoded either in 7-bit ASCII or in UTF-8
- Be formatted with a particular link or domain on each separate line.
- Have a line starting with a domain.
Concluding Part
I hope guys, this guide helped you understand the overall concept of disavowing links and how they work for your website. As you know now that disavow links are bad and spammy links, you must remove them if they’re causing a problem to your site. Make sure you disavow bad links from your site and make your website user-friendly one.
Just take help from this guide and follow the guidelines mentioned above. Get in touch with us for more updates. Till then keep reading, keep sharing.
