- Hey guys!
So, today I'm gonna teach you exactly how
to disavow backlinks that may be harming
your rankings on Google so,
sometimes you know, you get high quality backlinks
to your website that make a huge impact on your rankings.
But then other times,
you can get low-quality links
going to your site either that you've built
or that have just appeared by accident.
Whatever happens,
you can disavow these backlinks
to get rid of them, and if you're worried
that these hurting your rankings
or maybe you've received a penalty
or something like that,
then there's an easy way to spot low-quality backlinks
and get them removed from your backlinks profile there.
So that's what I'm gonna teach you today.
The first thing you wanna do
is go and setup a search console account.
So what you can do is sign up for an account
and then add a property like this,
you add the code onto your domain
and then once you're done, you can go ahead
and start disavowing links.
All right, so the first thing you wanna do
is identify those low-quality links
you do not want a link back from anymore.
So, if you type in your website into ahrefs.com
like this on the dashboard
then once that loads
you can check your backlink profile
by clicking backlinks over here
and basically you wanna go through your existing backlinks
and identify the ones
that are low-quality and very spam-y okay,
so if they offer no relevance,
if they have a low amount of organic traffic,
if they look like a particularly spam-y website,
then that's a good time to get rid of them.
So, what you can do is go to Dofollow
and once that loads
we can run through this list
and you're basically looking for any links
that look very spam-y, okay?
So, as we scroll down here
we can see this article
I think it's in Japanese right here
and if we click on the link,
so if I check the quality of this page, right?
And you know I wanna see is it a good link or not.
I can see that first of all
it's not in the language that my website is in
also its very thin content.
The website design, the content, looks very spam-y.
It doesn't look like a website
that someone would naturally use.
So, it's got a broken link here
and overall it just doesn't seem
like a high-quality backlink.
Now also, if I check this website
in ahrefs.com,
I can see that sure it's a DR 91 website
but at the same time this a sub-domain, okay?
And the organic traffic is zero,
so it's a very low-quality link really.
It isn't really relevant,
it doesn't really help my website,
it doesn't offer any value
and therefore I don't want this link associated
with my site.
So, what I can do
is add that to my list of websites to disavow.
Now, before you start disavowing backlinks to your website,
you have to realize that this an advance feature, okay?
And, if you don't really know what you're doing
or you don't really understand
which links are good and which links are bad,
then I wouldn't recommend using the disavow tool, okay?
Because it's not designed for beginners
and honestly it won't make a massive change to your rankings
unless your receive like a Google penalty
or something you need to be concerned about
when it comes to ranking a website.
But, if you still want to go ahead
and start disavowing backlinks
the actual (laughs) tool is kind of hard to find
so just type in "disavow" into Google
and then you'll find this link here.
If you try and find it through your search console,
its actually quite difficult to find
so I recommend just doing it this way
it's a lot simpler.
Then you wanna select the website on your search console
that you want to disavow the link for.
Then you'll get this box here
and you click on "disavow links".
Now before you go ahead and disavow this link,
you're gonna receive this warning again
from Google saying that
they recommend only disavowing links
if you believe there's a lot of spam-y links
or artificial links or low-quality links
pointing to your site.
And if you really confident that these links
are causing problems for your site,
because if they're not
then there's probably no point in using the disavow tool.
But anyway,
to go ahead and disavow links, click here
and then you're gonna upload a text file
that looks something like this.
This is the template that Google gives you
as an example on how to disavow links
and what your text file should look like
before you upload it to search console, right?
So now it's time to start disavowing links.
So, what we are gonna do is create a text file
that we can upload to search console,
it will look something like this,
and basically here's the backlink
that I no longer want in my backlink profile.
So, can copy that
and then paste it into a Google Doc like this
then we can download it as a TXT file,
plain text.
Then once you're done
you can upload it to search console.
Just like this, all right.
Then click submit.
You've uploaded a disavow file
and there we go, pretty much as easy as that.
Okay so,
you can see it only takes a few minutes to set this up
and if you have lots of spam-y links
that you wanna get rid of maybe you have a very
bad backlink profile or you've been
doing some sort of blacklink building
that you probably shouldn't have been doing
then you can upload a file like this
and easily disavow all the links you want to get rid of.
So once you're done, click "done"
and there you go,
you're backlinks have been disavowed.
So thanks for watching guys, if you have any questions
about link building or SEO,
let me know in the comment section below
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