Bad backlinks can crush your website so learn how to eliminate them

Not all Backlinks are good!

Backlinks bring organic search traffic and can boost your rankings in the search results. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean they’re all good.

Some can be harmful to your website and cause you to be penalized.

This article will help you to understand how to disavow backlinks so that you won’t get in trouble with Google.

Backlink Must-Knows

Most SEO professionals would agree that it is better to have one link from a high authority and trusted website in your niche or industry than to have several links from some oddball spammy website.

For instance, many are what might be deemed to be unnatural.

Unnatural links are any links acquired using methods that violate Google’s quality guidelines.

For example, unnatural links can be seen in those from link-swapping schemes. Google has gotten smarter and can recognize when sites are swapping links with each other to boost each other’s link profile.

Another indicator of a bad link-building technique is ‘exact-match anchor text.’ For example, it would be unnatural for every single one of your backlinks to use the phrase cheap hotels Omaha. Instead, use a mix of what you’re selling and your brand name.

What is the first step in finding bad backlinks?

The first thing you want to do is sign your website up with Google Search Console. This will allow you to find backlinks currently pointing to your website and will allow you to Disavow bad backlinks.

Second, go through and look for questionable links. If your link profile is overwhelmingly made up of links from off-topic and/or junk websites, or links with identical keyword-rich anchor text, you will definitely want to Disavow Backlinks that meet these criteria.

Remember, it’s important that your backlinks be relevant to your niche or industry. If you question anything it is safer to just disavow backlinks and stay in Google’s good graces.

How to disavow backlinks deemed bad?

The first thing you can do is to contact the linking website and ask them to physically remove your links. This step is especially important if you’ve already received a manual penalty from Google.

However, many website owners will likely refuse to remove the bad links or, more likely, just ignore the request. If this happens, you should proceed to disavow the bad links.

Once you have cleaned up as much as you can by using manual efforts, you can then upload Google disavow backlinks file to your search console.

There are a few gigs you can purchase on Fiverr of people who will find spammy backlinks and create and upload the disavow file for you. For the little amount they charge it is well worth it.

What happens next?

After you disavow a link, Google will assign an invisible ‘NoFollow’ tag to them and they will no longer affect your search engine ranking.

If your website has been given a manual link penalty from Google, you are going to want to submit a reconsideration request. It’s important that, you include a list of all the backlinks you disavowed as part of this request as well as those you manually requested, be removed.

Eventually, the removal of these junk backlinks should help boost your website authority and your search engine rankings.

Conclusion

Eventually every website will get some bad backlinks. It’s important to keep an eye on them through Google Search Console. More importantly, if you do find some that are questionable then strike quickly to clean them up.

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