There was a conversation with Marie Haynes , published a while back, where she was asking in a Google Hangout, "Are there other situations where you can use disapproval, other than penalties, where your links could be hurting you with the algorithm?"
John Mueller said that this was definitely the case, that if you want to disavow those clearly bad links that could hurt you algorithmically, it can help Google have a little more confidence in your link profile. If your link profile isn't that healthy in the first place if you only have a handful of links and some of them are bad, then you don't have much to belgium number data back on.
So disavowing these poor links can help Google trust the rest of your link profile a little more.
Well, outside of these warnings and situations where you want to disavow, a big question people have is, "Okay, what should I disavow?" So I've done this for a lot of sites, and these are my criteria and I'll share them with you. Good candidates for disavow, the best examples are often the ones that Google will give you when it penalizes you.
Again, this is a bit more rare, but when you get a link penalty, Google often provides sample links. They don't tell you all the links to disavow. But they will give you sample links, and you can go through it and look for patterns in your links to see what Google is considering a spammy link. You definitely want to add these to your disavow file.
Sentence examples.
-
- Posts: 306
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2025 4:41 am