Website owners and SEO experts work hard to rank their websites at the top of the Google search results. When the competition is too high, we tend to adopt all the possible methods of outranking the competitors which may also include building Backlinks from unauthoritative websites, and while doing so we often forget that the chances of SEO attacks are inevitable.

Building toxic backlinks is a recipe for disaster. Spammy Backlinks not only affect keyword rankings but also lower domain authority as well as increase the spam score. Therefore, it is crucial to keep checking backlink health and taking corrective actions to remove them from the domain.

How To Get Rid of Spammy Backlinks?

So, you have found Spammy backlinks on your website, haven’t you? Here are the 3 easy steps to get rid of spammy/toxic backlinks:

1. Spam Score Check-up

The first thing you want to do is check the spam score of the website. To find the score, run a backlink audit on a tool like MOZ spam score checker. The below screenshot shows the spam score of 13% which is quite alarming for the SEO health.

But what is a bad spam score?

If the score is between 1% – 30%, then it is crucial to look into your off-page SEO strategy. If the score ranges from 31% – 60% the intensity of the problem is high and you really need to stop. And if your website spam score is between 61-100% score, you need to continue reading and follow the further steps.

2. Collect Spammy Backlinks

The use of tools makes it easy to identify the spam backlinks. Tools like SEMrush, Ahref, and MOZ help you identify these backlinks easily.

One easy way is to use MOZ Link Explore. Go to the “Inbound Links” section and then move to the domain or even to the page which you want to analyze. Here you will be able to identify and collect all the backlinks that are harming your website SEO health. In the “Link List”, you can begin backlinks export and open it in excel so you can remove all the duplicate text pairs of domain-anchor. 

3. Upload it on the Disavow tool

Disavow Tool on Google Search Console (GSC) is a simple tool that enables you to import the toxic/spammy backlinks to let Google Disconsider them while indexing & ranking your website.

Using this tool is apt when you have done a thorough analysis of the backlinks profile. The list of spammy backlinks you have collected needs to be converted into a Text file since GSC accepts .txt files alone.

Now, to disavow the toxic backlinks, go to GSC Disavow tool here and choose the right website domain or property. Upload the .txt file by clicking on “Upload Disavow List”. Once you have uploaded, now wait for Google to disavow these spammy backlinks from your website.

Conclusion

These are some easy steps by which you can remove the spammy backlinks. Hence occasionally you need to clean the website and make a proper backlinks audit. An unfailing routine check helps to prevent your website from upcoming issues and in turn provides a better google search ranking. But the most important thing to watch out for is your off-page SEO strategy. Build healthy backlinks to discourage future SEO penalties.

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