What is the best way of understanding bad backlinks?
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I want to building trust link profile and i have to know which backlinks bad for my website. And i have to disavow bad links.
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This is a hard one.
If your link profile is small, I'd suggest going through it by hand, eliminating anything that's remotely spammy: low-quality directories, comment spam, footer links, paid links, etc.
If your link profile is large, you might have to use some tools to find out what links are hurting you, based on their source metrics, anchor text, and other factors.
Cyrus Shepard wrote a great response on what links to disavow, and included a few tools and resources to that end.
Here are a few more:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-know-which-links-to-disavow-in-google/50709/
http://moz.com/blog/how-to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings
http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/604/identify-low-quality-links-easily/
Hope this helps, good luck with your link building!
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