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    • Ryan.Cruz
      Ryan.Cruz last edited by

      We recently found out we have a lot of bad links linking back to our website from spam sites, I disavowed them through the google disavow link webmaster. On my moz report it still shows the links, is that normal?

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      • AgenciaSEO.eu
        AgenciaSEO.eu last edited by

        Hello Ryan,

        1. how did you find these spammy sites? with Moz?
        2. did you disavow the pages, subdomain or full domains? Be careful with this and don't disavow high quality links!

        To answer your question:

        Yes, after disavowing some links, those links will still appear on your Moz, Ahrefs, Semrush, etc reports. This is normal.

        My recommendation:

        1. Try to contact those sites and delete the links manually (then YES, they will completely disappear from your reports)
        2. If you can't get those sites deleted manually, then DISAVOW them using Google Disavow but pay special attention in disavowing only the necessary links.
        3. OPTIONAL: This is my personal recommendation: after using Moz, in order to double-check spammy sites try Linkresearchtools.com detox utility. In my opinion, they have the best detox tool in the market (but quite expensive)

        Thanks and good luck!

        Roberto

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        • Nigel_Carr
          Nigel_Carr last edited by

          Hi Ryan

          Disavowing a link doesn't take it away so they will still appear as backlinks to your site. The fact that Google disregards them in relation to your site does not take them off the sites they are on, so best practice is to approach the webmaster first and request the link be removed. If you get no response then disavow.

          Remember also that the file you upload should be ALL the backlinks to want disavowing, don't remove any which have been previously uploaded as the links will then go back! rather, download what you have previously uploaded, and add newly found toxic links to the file, which must then be re-uploaded.

          Google will date stamp each file. The file is not read be real people so don't bother making any notes on the file unless they are for you or your staff's benefit.

          Regards

          Nigel

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