Comments on: 8 Renowned Experts Bust Common Google Disavow Tool Myths

By: John Lee

John Lee — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:04:46 +0000

The disaster that Google Disavow has created is that they “Built an arena where SEO war can be waged” on large and small domains, with suspecting SEO admins and totally unaware small business owners.

How did Google not anticipate the devastating effects this could cause to small business owners? Completely unaware of a Black Hat SEO team that has targeted their domain or simply doing something to their site that is an unknown secret Google no-no.

Other problems. When a link list exceeds 100 or 1000 links the job of managing new links is a ridiculous time waist and another huge financial burden on small businesses.

My perception of this tool, if not clear by now, is that it can help large business with budgets for SEO Pros that understand how this works, or it can put small business out of business by giving a Black Hat tool to the competition.

Google has all the tech needed to manage and mitigate link without the Disavow Tool.

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By: Wahyu D. Purnomo

Wahyu D. Purnomo — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 23:03:12 +0000

Some myths still work some don’t. I’ve experienced that the disavow tool really can help you from negative impact of any bad links (naturally or unnatural onces).

However, just use disavow tool rarely made your website or page #1 on SERP. Its maximum potential is to prevent your sites from falling down because of such bad links. To get #1 on Google is another thing.

By: Lalit Kumar (SEO)

Lalit Kumar (SEO) — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 07:32:39 +0000

Different people have given different opinions in this article. Many of the mentioned myths are indeed myths (like always disavow at domain level and Google’s team reads the disavow file). But one thing is there for sure: Disavow Tool works! If it is not working in a given example, the reason lies somewhere else. You can not blame it on Disavow Tool. A website may face scores of SEO issues, bad backlinks is just one of them.

By: Cornelia Cozmiuc

Cornelia Cozmiuc — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:48:47 +0000

Thanks for the insights, Jenna! 🙂

By: Jenna Dexter

Jenna Dexter — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 17:18:35 +0000

DISAVOW WORKED FOR ME

Here’s a real life story.

I lost all Google ranking on one of my most popular pages in March 2017. I discovered multiple spammy links to that page, disavowed them and 10 days later that page reappeared in ranking. I’d say it regained about 90% of it’s former ranking.

I spend days reaching out to all of the websites that I had negative backlinks to and only one responded, the one with the most links actually. But he clearly didn’t know what he was doing, because while he attempted to remove the links, they’re still there. (How does one know how to create a link, but not remove it?!) At any rate, all of the links I disavowed still appear in Search Console (as expected), but Google is not counting them against me.

The End 🙂

By: Cornelia Cozmiuc

Cornelia Cozmiuc — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:44:30 +0000

Thanks for your input, Anthony! I think that, just like in most of the cases, we can best learn from case studies.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:30:18 +0000

I too thought like the experts above. Now I question assumptions which may have been righr pre-groundhog update. The scale of the projects are crazy. 100’s of thousands of links and 100’s of domains.

I noted huges rises in rankings (across different KW’s in different KW silos that use different CMSes (yes you read that right), and parts of the site are greatly unoptimised due to technical differences with the CMSes. The sites are not optimised with HTTPS, mobile enabled nor have great site speed.

We did various disavows. One, a few weeks before the groundHog update. The other just before the unexplained update in November last year.

Since Groundhog rankings have held and got better since. Obviously other activities are being done but they are disadvantaged.

I used to think the same – no rank boostings. However I’m a bit taken back by these massive rises. I’m open if I’ve missed something, but I hope to stimulate chat and find out more from your experiences.

By: Andy Kuiper

Andy Kuiper — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:10:10 +0000

Thanks Lyndon 🙂
This is the one I run into most often (from Marie) “And a third misconception about the tool is that it is read by the webspam team.”

By: Cathie Dunklee-Donnell

Cathie Dunklee-Donnell — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:32:59 +0000

Josh, I have had many sites that came to me with penalties under Penguin. I disavowed the bad links, and almost all of them have recovered completely, and now rank again at the top of search. The ones that didn’t recover are the ones who kept buying links (or they claim a competitor did) or that don’t have enough natural links.

Why do you think disavowing doesn’t work? Have you tried and it didn’t work for you? What is your evidence? I’d really like to know.