{"id":1814,"date":"2012-10-18T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2012-10-18T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:10:41","slug":"how-to-successfully-use-the-google-disavow-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/1814\/how-to-successfully-use-the-google-disavow-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Successfully use the Google Disavow Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Bing <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/bing-launches-way-to-disavow-links-but-why-126262\">released<\/a> their disavow tool, now it&#8217;s time for Google. A lot of people waited for this <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ro\/2012\/10\/a-new-tool-to-disavow-links.html\">tool<\/a> from Google, as with all the &#8220;Penguin&#8221; updates this year, a lot of webmasters were left in the dark having their sites penalized with no ability to remove those low quality links successfully.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;\">As Google warns you this is an Advanced Tool and should be used with caution.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It can harm your site&#8217;s rankings in Google.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1815\" title=\"Google Disavow Warning\" src=\"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-warning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-warning.jpg 714w, https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-warning-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What cognitiveSEO will do for you is give you the needed tools to easily filter and identify <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/604\/identify-low-quality-links-easily\/\">low quality links<\/a> that you can export and import into the Google Disavow tool.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a diagram that explains the steps you need to take to successfully\u00a0use the Google Disavow tool.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1816 aligncenter\" title=\"Google Disavow Infographic\" src=\"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-infographic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-infographic-100x300.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/google-disavow-infographic-341x1024.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see the steps are not that complicated. The only things that require a bit more skills is segmenting your link profile and filtering for low quality links. This can be quickly learned from this <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/803\/google-penguin-case-study\/\">video<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/604\/identify-low-quality-links-easily\/\">tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Forgot to mention that you can also import the &#8220;Google Webmaster Tools&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>links into cognitiveSEO for the analysis\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>( this is highly recommended because those are all of the links Google looks at)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To conclude:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google Disavow Tool + cognitiveSEO = The Perfect Solution for &#8220;Unnatural Warnings&#8221; affected sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Bing released their disavow tool, now it&#8217;s time for Google. A lot of people waited for this tool from Google, as with all the &#8220;Penguin&#8221; updates this year, a lot of webmasters were left in the dark having their sites penalized with no ability to remove those low quality links successfully. As Google warns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,34],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo","tag-backlink-analysis-2","tag-google-disavow-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}