Harmful backlinks are a very difficult and worrying thing to understand in order to avoid Google penalties on our websites. Backlinks are like a group of friends that you trust and tell the world about, and they trust you and tell the world that this person is our friend and he is a great person. Imagine if this group had bad manners or used drugs a lot. All of this would make your reputation very bad and harm you as much as possible because you linked your name and trust to a group of people who are not good enough.
So just as the best solution for you was to stay away from these friends, the best solution for your site is to disavow harmful backlinks such as incomprehensible Chinese sites, outdated forums that don’t get visitors, porn sites, or one-page sites with lots of random links.
How do I know the harmful backlinks to my site before disavowing them:
1- Go to the Moz website and create a free account.
2- From the free seo tools list, choose link explorer. Put your site link to analyze it.
3- Do you find the spam score box?! Good if the number is less than 30% then you are relatively safe but monitor it repeatedly and periodically to ensure that it remains so if the number is higher than that then grab your nice cup of tea and focus with us to fix this error.
4- Follow the following image and you must check and know the following:
- – Spam score is the spam score of the site that your site is linked to and the scale is 0 for the best score and 100 for the worst score.
- – date crawled is the date this link was discovered by moz. Google, Bing and other search engines may have discovered this link before this date.
- – da is the domain authority or strength of the domain associated with your website.
- – The fourth part is the links that link to your site. In the free plan of the Moz site, you can view up to 50 sites only, and if there are more, you need the higher pro plan to view the rest of the results.
5- Open the bad sites linked to your site in a new tab, take a look at them and see if there are any links that you placed yourself or were attached to you by the competitor to harm you?
If you are the one who put it, it is much better for you to delete your site link on this page and take the link to this page from which you removed your link and publish it on some social media (Facebook – Twitter – Pinterest – Tumblr – Instagram) so that search spiders can see that your site is no longer among the contents of this bad site.
If you are seeing this site for the first time, then of course you are not the one who put it up and most likely it is a competitor who is unable to compete with you, so he adopted the devious approach.
How to disavow malicious links once you know them:
On your desktop, open a txt document and write a message to the employee who will read the file you sent. It doesn’t matter what the text of the message is, but what matters is that it begins with this symbol (#).
You tell him that you want to disavow the following links and you can use the following text as an example ( Gentlemen in Google, we worked hard to improve the consequence of our site in the # web search tool and we have in excess of an expert for it, yet these locales don’t have any idea who highlighted us in them. We hope that you disavow them in order to return the lead and benefit to our audience ) but do not forget the hash symbol before the sentence
Then, write the URL of the malicious site, if this site only posts one link, for example
https://example.com/ikill-all-people. If the site is very bad and intentionally harms you and posts more than one link to your site, choose to disavow the entire domain, for example.
domain:www.example.com In this case, all pages that point to your site from this domain will be disavowed.
Now that you have your file set up we begin the process of disavowing backlinks.
1- Go to the Google Search Console disavowal link and you will find the following page:
You will find the following text saying “If you believe your site’s ranking is being hurt by low-quality links that you don’t control, you can ask Google not to take them into account when evaluating your site. You ought to in any case bend over backward to tidy up unnatural connections highlighting your site. Simply rejecting them is not enough. More information”
Select the site you manage and click on disavow link.
The second step in the process of disavowing malicious backlinks is to confirm that you are aware of the steps you are taking and that you are fully aware of the seriousness of this process.
You will find this message that says “ This is an advanced feature and should be used with caution. Whenever utilized mistakenly, this element might possibly hurt your site’s presentation in Google query items. We recommend that you do not ignore backlinks unless you believe there are a large number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing you problems. ”
In other words, if you are not sure which links are harming your site, do not take any steps that may harm you further. We have seen many sites whose results declined after disavowing some links because they were not the real harmful links, unfortunately.
Step 3: Upload the file in which you put the links you want to disavow
– click on choose file > upload the file > done < submit. Thus, we have finished disavowing harmful backlinks. The method of disavowing backlinks that was explained is the best and is currently preferred by Google.
If you have any problems, do not hesitate to contact us to send you free solutions and also develop everything related to your website. We have the best experts in the fields of electronic marketing with the best appropriate solutions.
One last and free piece of advice: If you have enough financial capabilities, do not risk doing these complicated things yourself so that you do not unintentionally increase the damage to your website . Rather, seek the help of some experts in the field of SEO, not only to solve the problem of harmful backlinks, but also to improve the ranking of your website on search engines and fix its errors and problems in a safe, effective and fast way.
However, if you do not have enough financial capabilities, try to follow the explanation step by step with great focus, care and caution, because a mistake in such matters is disastrous and trying to fix it later will cost a lot of time, effort and money.
