Disavow File Generator
The Disavow tool, introduced by Google in 2012, serves as a means for website owners to request Google not to consider certain undesirable links that point to their website. Essentially, it allows users to signal to Google to disregard specific low-quality or spammy links while assessing the overall quality and content of a website's link profile. This tool became necessary as website owners might have acquired such problematic links, knowingly or unknowingly, through various means like working with SEO experts or companies that are no longer under their control.
What Constitutes Bad Backlinks to Disavow?
Bad backlinks, irrespective of whether they were intentionally built or not, violate Google's quality guidelines. When such links are found, Google penalizes the websites. The Disavow tool aims to assist in removing these links, although manual removal might be more effective but time-consuming. Interestingly, websites that previously paid for links are now among those removing these links.
Creating a Google Disavow File
Before initiating the creation of a Disavow file, it's crucial to decide whether to disavow at the domain or URL level. Disavowing at the domain level means disregarding all backlinks from a specific domain, while at the URL level, it pertains to ignoring specific URLs. The file must adhere to Google's format requirements:
- Format: .txt
- Encoding: 7-bit ASCII or UTF-8
- Size: Should not exceed 2MB
- Each URL or domain listed on a separate line
It's advisable to disavow spammy backlinks individually or even an entire domain, ensuring careful consideration to avoid missing any problematic links.
Well, you might find it difficult to upload a disavow file, let us tell you Google make that process difficult intentionally, and the point behind in doing so is to stop those webmasters from disavowing their links accidentally or unknowingly. Thus it is better to follow these steps;
- First and foremost thing you must need to be a verified domain owner and you need to be logged into your Google account before going for further process.
- Now we provided this link here, click on that link (because you won’t be able to access it from GWT directly) and this is what you get after clicking the link.
However you have to make sure to select the correct domain from the drop-down, then click on this red button. But again a warning screen might show up having a yellow text box. Don’t just get worried, Click the button of “Disavow Links”. After that, as a result, you will get a popup box where you have to click on “Choose file” option. So find your disavow file that you want to upload and press the Submit option. After doing all this you might get a screen like this,
That’s It you’re all done with it now. Just click that ‘Done’ button. After doing all this you get the confirmation message in Google Webmaster Tools about your upload, moreover, you also need to wait for few weeks to see any changes before Google recrawls all the links.
How to Disavow spam backlinks on Yahoo and Bing?
It's very similar to the search console, just go to your bing webmaster tools account and select your website and select the "Disavow Links" from the left menu and submit the bad backlinks URL one by one and disavow them.
Does disavowing backlinks work?
Yes, of course disavowing of backlinks definitely works, but here are some of the cases where it works and you are also recommended to follow those as well,
- It works especially for the sites that have created links on a very large scale for SEO purposes.
- For the sites that have manual action because they used to have bad or unnatural links previously.
- For the sites that look under negative SEO attacks over the time.
