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    • Vuly
      Vuly Subscriber last edited by

      Following on from a previous problem of 2 of our main pages completely dropping from index, we have discovered that 150+ spam, porn domains have been directed at our pages (sometime in the last 3-4 months, don't have an exact date).

      Does anyone have exerpeince on how long it may take Google to take noticed of a new disavow list? Any estimates would be very helpful in determining our next course of action.

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      • yaya1
        yaya1 @Kamikam12 last edited by

        @Kamikam12 said in Negative SEO & How long does it take for Google to disavow:

        Funny small world, because I remember advising a while back to your competitor https://www.קמגרה.com/
        and he asked me to do disavow for domains like avigabbay.co.il that you redirected to their website.
        Luckily I don't work in that niche anymore.

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        • Kamikam12
          Kamikam12 @Vuly last edited by

          Hi , someone made spam redirect to my website https://קמגרה.net/
          And domain owner using DNS 301 redirect technic and it's not working with scripts to block the redirect, i contacted domain registr company "porkbun " to report abuse and they say they can't do nothing about it, what else can i do to block

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          • MichalGraham
            MichalGraham Banned @Vuly last edited by

            @vuly
            It requires 2 to 90 days for denied connections to quit being viewed as a feature of a connection profile," says legitimate SEO master Neil Patel on his blog. Remember that Google doesn't ensure that all backlinks recorded in Search Console will be repudiated. For example, my website had spam score 44 - I had disavow hundreds of backlinks but it take time to lower the spam score of my site.

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            • higrade777
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              I found hundreds of spammy links pointing to my website ```
              Beatdreamer.com - have now submitted the disavow file to Google, fingers crossed.

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                I found a lot of new links to my website proffsit.se

                The question is if should I remove spammy sites with high DA as well? question is if should I remove spammy sites with high DA as well?

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                                      apkpoint @Sarasytan38 last edited by

                                      To Disavow Bad links Follow These Steps

                                      1. Make a file of all bad links
                                      2. Go to >https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
                                      3. Login through the same account which you are using for google webmasters.
                                      4. Submit the file.

                                      Goole will Disavow all the links you submitted with in 2,3 Months

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                                        Google can take up to 2,3 Months to disavow any submitted links.

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                                            I have lots of spam and porn backlinks on my sites GTA5-mobile.com and ppssppapk.info, can you tell me tell me how to disavow them? My sites DA  50+ of both sites.

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                                                              effectdigital @Vuly last edited by

                                                              1.) It depends on Google's perception of what has happened, you may or may not get those rankings back (ever)

                                                              i. If Google applied 'active' ranking reductions (usually signified by a penalty message in Google Search Console) then the disavow work alone wouldn't work, you'd also need to submit a reconsideration request. For a recon request to go through, especially a links one, it ranges from 2 weeks to 4 months for them to even respond to it (the higher range is usually for repeat offenders)

                                                              ii. If Google applied active ranking reductions without serving you a penalty notice, the disavow on its own should be processed relatively quickly and rankings should begin returning a week or two after the disavow is processed. Note that this is the rarest circumstance, Google almost never apply active ranking reductions without also sending a penalty notification

                                                              iii. If Google didn't apply any active ranking reductions, it simply means that links which used to count - no longer pass SEO authority. Doing a disavow doesn't magically bring the authority back (so in this situation you don't see ranking gains from disavow work, this would be called an algorithmic devaluation - not a penalty)

                                                              Items (i) and (iii) are infinitely more commonplace than (ii), which is extremely rare

                                                              2.) Build good links to replace the crappy ones you have lost

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                                                              • Vuly
                                                                Vuly Subscriber last edited by

                                                                Thanks for your response! 🙂

                                                                We only disavowed the bad links yesterday not afew months ago, however, none of these links where here last time we checked which was afew months ago.  These links are still appearing on Google Console however, it hasn't been 48 hours.

                                                                Many of them are linking to websites that seem to be down, however some are actual porn/spam sites. We're very concerned as this has happened the week of Black Friday and we are scratching our heads looking for a fast solution.

                                                                ** So the questions are;**

                                                                _**1. While we understand we need to wait 48 hours for these links to be disavowed, how long after they are disavowed would it take to have the our website reappearing on Google again?

                                                                2. What else can we do to speed up recovery penalty from unwanted nasty backlinks? **_

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                                                                • effectdigital
                                                                  effectdigital last edited by

                                                                  I'm pretty sure it's variable and depends on Google's perceived severity of infraction. I've seen disavow lists that never make a difference one way or the other, and ones where the list has been digested and I'm seeing movements within the next few days. Usually speaking, I find that if there's absolute zero impact for a couple of weeks, it's time to stop waiting as the list has probably been rejected, discarded or the work was incorrect and thus it had no impact. It's fairly unusual to submit a disavow, wait for weeks or months and then suddenly it kicks in. In my experience, they're relatively quick-acting! If you have waited nearly half a year I'd say that more waiting isn't going to help

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