Disavow Links / Disavowing Backlinks “Beginner’s Guide”

Why has disavowing backlinks become one of the most important factors in SEO, which has prompted both Google and Bing to have special tools that allow you to carry out this disavowal process? There is no doubt that this importance stems from the deep connection of this algorithm to the ranking of searches. It is worth noting that one of the reasons for the success of the Google search engine is the page classification algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to rank the results. Its importance is based mainly on the links between sites.

Contents of the topic: Toggle Useful links and bad links Finding backlinks to your site How to disavow backlinks: What happens after the process of disavowing links: Useful links and bad links There are clear policies regarding links that benefit our sites, and which may harm them at times. These links are called “DoFollow”, which is meant by dofollow links that exceed the page ranking in Google and give a boost to the search result. Hence, the laws were strict and urged not to grant these links as (a promotional exchange) In exchange for money - etc...) All of these links must bear the tag NoFollow. It is best for you to get those links bearing the DoFollow tag from respectable and respected sites, and they come in appreciation for your work and the content of your site. Therefore, you should avoid getting these links from sites on free hosting, as well as sites that are not valuable or were recently created, because they have a negative impact on your site. Monitoring the links coming to your site has become one of the most important things for the site manager to do, and this step has come since it was announced 

The Penguin algorithm was officially released on April 24, 2012 and since then, Google has been performing manual actions on incoming links more than ever before. Penguin, of course, is an algorithm that tries to punish SPAM spreading on the web, and it has been officially updated only 4 times from 2012 to the current year 2014, unlike the Panda algorithm, which is updated almost periodically.

Many people confuse both the Penguin and Panda algorithm, but Panda is different as it focuses on the quality of the content and excludes low-quality sites from searches. The Penguin, as we mentioned, specializes in manipulation of search results and deception attempts that take place in building links and other manipulation tactics. One of the tactics followed by this algorithm is to match the anchor text, so that if you always use the “search term” on all links, then you may be in trouble and you have to adopt the name of your product or refer to different points on your site and adopt the principle of “click here”, all of which have become important and count for a lot in the process of searching and filtering the results. The second tactic that the Penguin algorithm notices is the sudden increase in the number of backlinks in a short time, and these links are all from sites with a high PageRank. From this standpoint, you must take into account the adoption of all levels in the backlink building process and also be careful to distribute the linkbuilding process on a regular basis so that it does not negatively affect your site.

Finding backlinks to your site Before starting this process, you must prepare the basis for it, which is adding your site in webmaster tools with www and without www, because backlinks are counted differently for both links. If you receive a penalty stating that a manual action has been taken on your site, you will notice this in Google Webmaster Tools and you will be informed of the action you were subjected to. You can follow the post about manual actions from here. Google's webmaster tools also allow you to know all the external links coming to your site, which makes it easier for the site owner to follow those links and know the good links and the bad ones.

To view the list of links, follow these steps: 1- In the Webmaster Tools menu, click on the site to which you want to view backlinks. 2- In the main interface, click on 

Search Traffic and from the drop-down menu we choose 

Links to Your Site. 3- Under the Who links the most menu, click on More.

4- Click on  Download more sample links to download the full list. If you choose  Download latest links, the date will also appear.

This process will leave you with a file containing all the backlinks to your site, which will enable you to verify the credibility of these sites, their ranking, and the quality of the content on them. This is not the only way to find out the backlinks coming to your site. There are a number of tools that allow you to do that, and each one has its own way of detecting those links. Among these tools that are considered quite useful are ( Site Explorer Moz, Majestic SEO, Ahrefs, Link Risk) and there are more tools, but these were the best of them.

Before starting the process of building backlinks, you must know the links that you should remove, and they are often as follows: A number of links coming from sites that are not related to the content of your site and are often from disreputable sites. There are a very large number of backlinks from a number of simple sites. In contrast, it is often a link in the site's footer or on the side menu.

How to Disavow Backlinks: Best Practices

The process of removing and disavowing backlinks involves communicating with the site owner and removing the links manually, and this is among the tips provided by Google. If the site manager does not respond after a number of correspondences, you can then use the backlink disavowal tool. Here in this post, we will not discuss the explanation of the backlinks tool so as not to repeat what we mentioned in another post about how to use the backlinks disavowal tool. You should know that the maximum size of a disavow file is 2MB and the maximum number of links for a disavow is 1000 links.

These links are downloaded exclusively via a TXT file. What happens after the process of disavowing links: After performing the disavowal process, the search engine will place a hidden NoFollow tag on those links that you disavowed, meaning they will not be counted in the page ranking process. This helps us recover from an automatic procedure. If the procedure is manual, you must submit a request to reconsider your sanctioned site after a period ranging between (7-14) days from the disavowal, which is the period necessary for Google to re-archive those pages again. After getting out of punishment, make sure to review all backlinks coming to your site to ensure that you do not engage in other actions in the future.

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