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How and why to disavow backlinks?



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How and why to disavow backlinks?

Hi guys. I heard many good things about "Disavow" tool which can be used do disalow backlinks from certain websites when you can't remove them.

In my case i have some website with number of backlinks from adult websites. Once i was running some competition and all contestants were required to put voting link on their website long long ago, but i notice that many websites still keeping that link even the competition is finished long time ago.

My website is not porno or adult related at all and i am interested if that backlinks hurting my website and would adding them to disavow help in my rankings? If yes then what steps i should do to get best results?

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Cristian
If you bought huge amounts of blackhat SOE backlinks and you want to remove them, well, that's going to be a pain in the ass!
I never understood the Google Disavow Tool, so if Google IGNORES the backlinks once you put them in this tool, why is it necessary to go and remove the manually?

Contacting dead or inactive websites can be a real pain, most of the black hat tools use hacking methods to great those backlinks and because they weren't removed, tell me that the admins are aware or worst yet, don't care about what is happening with parts of their website.



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cmoneyspinner
OK! I have heard about the "Disavow tool" but I never thought of it in terms of adult websites. I just remember the blogging advice being to use the tool as sort of a last resort. It's a not a tool you want to use recklessly or carelessly.

How to Use Google’s Disavow Tool Correctly

Take away from this article: "There are some links that will hurt your site’s SEO if you don’t remove them."



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Corzhens
It looks like the Disavow tool is for disavowing the ownership of bad backlinks. First of all, I wonder why the site got backlinks from adult sites. But in fairness to adult sites, I have read in one article that there are millions of visitors that your backlink can be considered quality backlink from that site although I know that a decent site would be tainted with that kind of backlink.



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