Google’s disavow tool | How To Disavow Backlinks Complete Guide For 2021-22
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We have seen and many experts have also agreed that the backlinks of any website are very important for its ranking.
The same high-quality backlinks increase the website ranking while bad quality backlinks lower the ranking of the website.
Actually, while creating backlinks, we do not pay attention to which backlink is of high quality and which backlink is of low quality.
To make this thing easy, Google has come out with a tool called Google Disavow Tool.
With the help of this, you can remove the bad backlinks of the website, it will not make any difference in the ranking of your website.
Here today I am going to give you step-by-step information about the tool, so read this article very carefully.
So let's get started.
What is Google disavow tool?
Google disavow tool is a kind of tool, with the help of which you can tell Google that whatever bad backlinks you have on your website should not be counted for search engine ranking.
This tool is integrated into the Google Search Console and you need to create an account in Google Search Console to use it.
This is a completely free tool that everyone can use to remove bad backlinks from their website.
It is considered to be the best tool ever to remove bad backlinks.
Whenever you are not able to delete these backlinks even after contacting any site owner.
Then you can remove all those bad backlinks with the help of this tool.
Google will filter all the bad backlinks you have on your website and will not count any such backlinks on your website.
In this way, your ranking on your search engine result page will never go down.
History of disavow tool
Internet marketers and every person doing search engine optimization knows about this tool since 2012.
But Google did not put this tool in the limelight much, the biggest reason for this is that this tool comes to use in very few people.
Because not everyone needs it, when your website becomes reputed and very big then it became useful to you.
Because when your website becomes famous, then in your website start making lots of backlinks on it.
But all this is not applicable to any new website.
Google's Penguin update came, it has been doing more to catch the poor quality backlinks of websites.
If you have used some similar Blackhat techniques in your website.
Then you will get Google Penguin with the help of this will penalize your website immediately.
But to avoid this, we use Google disavow tool.
Should I use this tool?
It is very simple which everyone can use it easily.
Here I will tell you the right way about this tool.
With the help of which you can use it very easily.
Because if you do not know how to use it, then you may have to suffer its loss.
It happens many times that when someone uses this tool in the wrong way, his website ranking starts going down.
That's why we should come to use it in the right way, which I am going to tell you.
It is very important for us to do these two things here to remove the bad backlinks of our site.
1. Make bad backlinks list
2. Submit bad backlinks to this tool
Here I tell you to step by step about both the methods.
Make a list of bad backlinks
First of all, you have to make a list of all the bad backlinks of your website that you want to remove.
In this, you can take the help of Google WebMaster Tools.
With the help of this tool, you can download the list of backlinks to all that point to your website.
Apart from this, you have another way to download this list, in which you can also take the help of third-party tools.
Ahrefs and semrush are the best third-party tools.
With these tools, you will get all the new links and dead links very easily.
Talking about Google Search Console, first, we have to download the backlinks List.
For this, you have to go to this tool.
Go to Search Traffic on the left side and click on it.
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From here you can download the backlink list, here you will see the download this table option.
Through which you can open that option and download your list.
When you download these backlinks, you review them manually.
By which it will be easy to filter your bad backlinks and after that, you make a text file of it.
You can also use third-party tools for this task,semrush and ahrefs.
But you should not rely on these tools, you should review all these links manually so that no quality links get removed.
I know this is a very time-consuming process but it is a very important process.
So you take great care of this thing.
If you want to disavow your domain completely, then you just do domain:abc.com.
If you disavow just the URL of a particular page then you have to add on line URL for that.
Your file should be in .txt format.
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To remove bad backlinks, the look of any file is like this.
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After creating your file, it is necessary to review it once again.
So that there is no problem in removing the link and your website does not have much effect.
How to disavow backlinks?
To remove all your bad backlinks, you have to go to the Google disavow tool and submit the list of all your website bad backlinks links.
We also try to understand it step by step here.
1. Step- 1
After that, select your domain and scroll down in the tool, in which you will get the option to remove the bad links.
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2.Step-2
On the second page click on the disavow link again.
Upload the link list by clicking on the choose file.
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3.Step-3
It may take some time for your list of backlinks to be submitted.
After the process is done, the details of your submitted file will start showing in front of you.
And you will get to know how many domains and URLs you have disavow.
Click on the button when the file is uploaded.
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After that, you will get the congratulation message.
You have successfully submitted bad backlinks list to Google disavow link tool type of message.
After submitting the file, you will also get a confirmation mail on your registered mail id.
You can confirm whether your file has been submitted or not by clicking on the link that has come to your mail after that.
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After this, after removing your backlinks, it may take at least 1 to 2 weeks time for the downranking of your website to recover.
Because Google will index and recrawl your website.
If you ever want to add more links to the backlinks file, then you can download the disavow file and add new files to it and submit it by going to this tool.
Note: Use this tool only if you have a lot of spamming links on your website, otherwise you should not use it.
I would tell you that you should use this tool only when you feel that yes it is of my use, do not take any step in the hurry.
Advantages
The biggest advantage of using this tool is that you can always keep your link profile clean.
This is a great way to avoid all those things if you have ever used blackhat techniques on your website before.
With the help of this tool, you can stop those bad websites from creating links on your website, due to which bad backlinks are being created on your website.
If you want to stop traffic from any website to your website, then you can do that too with the help of this tool.
You can also improve your ranking from time to time with the help of this tool, by removing your bad link.
Keeping your backlinks updated is a great way to stay in the rankings and you can do that very easily with the help of this tool.
In this tool, you get the advantage that you can easily find and remove the bad backlinks of your entire website and particular page too.
Disadvantages
If we talk about the disadvantages, then the biggest disadvantage in this is that many times our good backlinks are also removed from us, due to which our website ranks.
Due to our good backlinks being removed, our website goes down, which becomes a difficult task to bring back in the ranking.
You may also have to bear the brunt of website traffic many times because of this, so do not remove until you are completely sure that you have to remove this backlink.
When too many backlinks are created on your website, then you cannot catch bad backlinks right away, due to which the black-white technique is used on your website.
If you do not have expertise in this work, then you may come into trouble with finding bad backlinks.
Sometimes its tools also give wrong advice, so we have to review all our backlinks in it ourselves.
Conclusion
We have tried throughout the article, how does Google's disavow tool work?
What is the history of this tool?
We also learned how to use it?
And we also learned about its advantages and disadvantages so that due to this we do not have any problem later.
If you are very early in your internet journey then you do not need this tool at all.
But we should be a little cautious about this thing that we have to always protect our website from bad backlinks.
Because our backlinks have a huge impact on the ranking of our website.
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