How Long Until Manually Removed Anchor Text Links Stop Showing Up?
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I've been manually removing spammy links from crappy sites and overly used money terms for several months... how long does it take for those links to stop showing up in crawl reports?
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Sorry for the delay in responding. The holidays caught up with me! I'm not sure why OSE would still include those links so long after the site was taken down. Could you email help@moz.com and give our help team the details, so we can investigate and see if there's a bug?
Thanks!
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HI Keri, These links are still showing in both Google and OSE. A good example was a video site that we set up several years ago www.graphicdesignandadvertising.com - took this site down several months ago, used the Google "remove a directory or your entire site tool", but still have356,117 links showing up from this site.
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Do you mean OSE, or Google?
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Thanks Michael and Karl. . . I just get impatient. Do you think that this tool could help speed up the process?
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Unfortunately, crappy websites don't tend to get crawled often so it could be many months until Google recrawls the website. I'd put the websites in a disavow file as well just to be sure.
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From a Google point of view crawling the pages you have/had links on can take hours/days/weeks/months depending on the authority of the domain and how accessible the URL is, so I imagine the moz crawler for example, will take similar times.
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