Disavow tool ?

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Carpetflood

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Is there a tool or system or person that can go through and clean up old spam links In a Productive way .
I got hit on the last update for my everyday business website . 10 year plus sites, no spam links for over a year and a half . I have 301'd several inner pages .
Have maybe 40000 give or take .( not sure )
Thanks for any advise .
 


40K links = total waste of time. You can clean up all of the links you "think" Google doesn't like (which will take forever) and if you missed a handful, you still won't see your site recover. Plus, I'm fairly certain you'll have to wait until the next Penguin refresh and God only knows when that will be. Disavow is worthless too. If you had a couple hundred links, I'd say give it a shot. Start a new site and put you energy into that. You'll see quicker benefits than messing with the old one.
 
The disavow tool is basically Google's way of getting you to show your hand when it comes to link building. Most people advise against using it.

You're going to want to identify whether or not you have a penalty or saw a drop in rankings due to a link devaluation.

Assuming this is a long term/white hat site and not a spam/blackhat site, you're probably going to want to clean up your link profile. Get rid of those 301's, delete any spam links within your capability, and try to index any quality links currently inplace that are unindexed.

Here's a video that might help too: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tu...acklink-profile-for-current-future-penalties/
 
How many unique domains out of that 40k links?

My advise is to start over. Unless it's considerable investment to drop.

If you want to pursue link removal, you need to automate contacting webmasters for those clear cut spammy links. Hit them once or twice a week with different style, it gives the impression that you are human.

Don't email the same webmaster about the same domain for each link. Filter. There are services that do this, but I don't know if they are any good.

Once you have taken down a lot of them, file reconsideration request.

If you get turned down, which you will first time, go back to cleaning. Give yourself a target, say 6 months. If you are still right where you started, throw the towel and move on.

Note: I have never heard of a penalised site go back to the exact old glory, unless your are jcpenny, but you can build upon something once they undo the penalty.
 
I get clients that have this problem. If you want to avoid Disavow: There are link removal services but it's going to get expensive quick with that number of links. Go to Odesk there are some good Philipino VAs that are trustworthy and can plug away at this full time for a buck or two an hour. They will mention it on their profile: Link Removal or Backlink Removal make sure they have a good work history, give them the list and some email templates and require progress reports every couple of days.

Use the time it takes to build other traffic sources to your site, get the phones ringing. I usually will launch a lead gen type of site (or two) onto that first page to direct organic traffic back to the main site while you wait. If your site recovers then it doesn't hurt to be taking up more real estate on that first page.
 
If no discernible penalty on a "by keyword" basis, it's link loss (devaluation) like Stackcash said. Build more links. Different ones. On places other people aren't.

If you have a keyword penalty, sure use the disavow list. It won't do any good but you'll probably have enough hope instilled to string you along for a couple months before you realize nothing has changed and you're in the same place as you were when you posted this thread.

Just send me the list too so I can remove any of them from my target lists. Thnx.
 
This is a quote from and SEo guy that I was just starting to work with before panda.
What do you guys think about it.

"As you can see from the attachment, Majestic SEO is picking up around 26,000 total backlinks on just 541 referring domains, or about 48:1 links per referring domain. This is way in the "danger zone" from I have observed from the penguin 2.1 update, and as a result, it is not surprising that your site got hit."




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I don't get how people don't see the Disavow tool as eroding SEOer's future possibilities to rank. As more and more people use it, more and more "private blog networks", which ironically are for sale publicly, are going to get caught in it's path.

The majority of your methods are going to get caught in it's path. You might be winning the battle, but are losing the war. Today using disvow with your current site "might" benefit - very doubtful, but are continuing to shoot yourself in the foot by giving away your SEO strategies.

It's like you are giving Google your battle plans. What possible good can come out of Google knowing your exact strategy?

Imagine all those people buying blog networks in BST and they see a small dip in traffic, and decide to disavow everything? What if that small dip was because of something else, and not the blog network. And then more and more people keep doing that, all those "Private Blog Networks" are toast. Imagine you bought something that 20 newbies also bought then decided to disavow? Imagine what will happen to your rankings? Then you go and disavow, just causing rippling effects.

So yeah - continue disavowing, keep shooting yourselves in the feet. SEO is Dying, and the disavowers are killing it.

Early this decade, In a secret meeting somewhere:

Matt Cutts: "Imagine if we could get every SEOer to report their backlinks to us… just put it in a textbox and submit."

Rand Fishkin: "I don't think that's going to work, they can't be THAT stupid…"
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I actually wrote about this Propaganda a long long time ago, in the time of myth and legends: http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/162098-link-removal-services.html#post1826909

Good luck bros...​
 
CCarter said:
It's like you are giving Google your battle plans. What possible good can come out of Google knowing your exact strategy?​
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More and more, I can't find a good reason for google to know anything more about me or my websites than absolutely needed.

Ever since they bought urchin a long time ago, it's been worse and worse. I can't figure out why people would give google conversion data, website stats, or anything. As far as I can tell, they'll absolutely use whatever they can against you.
 
Why not concentrate on getting more quality links for balance, rather than going back and trying to remove all your shitty ones?
 
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