My Domain has a couple of badlinks decreasing my rankings, will disavowing them reduce my Domain Authority on Moz?
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Good day Every Body,
I have a heart aching issue, my site (nightwatchng.com) amassed a number carnivorous backlinks, I have lost rankings, i studied my search traffic and discovered that I have been hit by Google Penguin Algorithm Penalty, I was forced to believe that those backlinks were built to my site on purpose just so my rankings will drop, I know the importance of link building and thats why i follow the white hat technique.
Now the big question is, IF I DISAVOW THESE TERRIBLE LINKS FROM GOOGLE SEARCH, WILL MY MOZ DOMAIN AUTHORITY DROP FROM WHAT IT CURRENTLY HAS??
I also want to know if the Algorithm Penalty will affect the subdomain (news nightwatchng.com) of my site?
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Using link research tools I was able to find out you have approximately Backlinks 569K with only Ref Domains 1K
that is not a great ratio.
One of the things I think that is extremely important that you know in conducting research on your site using builtwith.com I was able to find out that you have different canonical's for three of your four possible domains
- https://www.
- https://
- http://www.
- http://
This is something I noticed when looking at your site and has a lot to do with link equity all of your redirects are pointing to different URLs with different canonical's
https://i.imgur.com/hJz4w1o.png
This is an excellent tutorial on how to force HTTPS using Nginx or Apache
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/
if you need a lot of help with this stuff Kinsta also a very good WordPress hosting company
**If your web server is running Nginx, **
server {
listen 80;
server_name nightwatchng.com www.nightwatchng.com;
return 301 https://nightwatchng.com$request_uri;
}If your web server is running Apache,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]You can also just use plug-in but I recommend not using plug-ins if you don't have to this one's very lightweight
https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/
you may also need to use redirect rules like this one
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/www-to-nonwww/
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.nightwatchng.com$
RewriteRule (.*) https://nightwatchng.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>A similar tool for nginx
https://www.scalescale.com/tips/nginx/nginx-redirection-www/
Redirect non-www to www for all your domains
Place this code inside your server block {}:**return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri ;**
The full example in a server block {} to:
server { server_name "~^www.(.*)$" ; return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri ; }
Redirect www to non-www
Redirect www to non-www for a single domain
Place this code inside your server block {}:return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri;
Example:
server { server_name www.mysite.com; return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri; }
- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/218411427-Page-Rules-Tutorial
- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170536-How-do-I-redirect-all-visitors-to-HTTPS-SSL-
- https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/
Hope this helps,
Tom
PS
(I really wish there was a way for this tool to save a draft because I just wrote a very long reply and it's gone. Either way here is a shorter version of what I had written before.)
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Its really tormenting
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Hi there,
- Disavowing bad links. No, it won't hurt your DA or PA.
- It's not confirmed by any official source, but having an algorithm penalty in a big portion of your site could hurt other subdirectories or subdomains
On the side, you should ABSOLUTELY not focus on private metrics as PA/DA, Domain rank, TF or what ever name any tool has for their metrics. Those metrics only reflect what that tool considers. It's known that having a high DA wont make you rank #1 for every keyword and having a low DA is not an impediment for ranking #1 and/or ranking higher that sites with high DA.
Also, as you are disavowing those links, every link profiler has an option to upload a list of disavowed links. Moz has its own.Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR
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