{"id":1539790,"date":"2024-07-15T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/?p=1539790"},"modified":"2024-07-19T05:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:46:20","slug":"why-use-googles-disavow-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/why-use-googles-disavow-tool","title":{"rendered":"Why Use Google&#8217;s Disavow Tool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google launched its disavow tool in 2012 to help websites exclude incoming links from affecting organic rankings. At the time, Google was fighting &#8220;link spam,&#8221; the practice of obtaining low-grade links and link-building tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-new-tool-to-disavow-links#:~:text=this%20is%20a%20strong%20suggestion%20rather%20than%20a%20command%20%2D%20Google%20reserves%20the%20right%20to%20trust%20our%20own%20judgment%20for%20corner%20cases\">made it clear<\/a> that websites should use the disavow tool only after receiving a manual penalty notice via Webmaster Tools (now Search Console) and only when that penalty was related to backlinks, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/2648487\">stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You should disavow backlinks only if:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>1. You have a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>AND<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>2. The links have caused a manual action, or likely will cause a manual action, on your site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, many website owners used the disavow tool to preemptively avoid penalties after investing in low-quality link-building services or suspecting &#8220;negative SEO attacks&#8221; from competitors.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Disavow?<\/h3>\n<p>To this day, there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/ask-an-expert-is-disavowing-spammy-backlinks-still-necessary-for-seo\">little agreement<\/a> in the search engine community on whether (or how) to use the disavow tool. Multiple providers offer disavow services that continue to attract clients. Google&#8217;s documentation says the disavow tool &#8220;is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site&#8217;s performance in Google Search results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, most businesses don&#8217;t know if their backlinks are spammy. In-house SEO teams don&#8217;t typically report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/stop-using-domain-authority-for-seo-backlinks\">the quality or type<\/a> of acquired links. Third-party services wrongfully label links as &#8220;toxic,&#8221; adding to the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Here are updates from industry practitioners to help you decide.<\/p>\n<h4>Disavows are ineffective<\/h4>\n<p>The disavow tool has always been a <em>request<\/em> to Google, which may or may not honor it.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/zyppy.com\/seo\/google-disavow-experiment\/\">recent experiment<\/a> by search optimizer Cyrus Shepard proves the point. He disavowed all links he could find pointing to his site, waited seven weeks, and saw little impact on organic traffic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1539806\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cyrus-Shephard-traffic-performance-report.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1539806\" class=\"wp-image-1539806 size-large\" title=\"Screenshot of Cyrus Shepard's traffic performance report\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cyrus-Shephard-traffic-performance-report-570x224.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Cyrus Shepard's traffic performance report\" width=\"570\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cyrus-Shephard-traffic-performance-report-570x224.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cyrus-Shephard-traffic-performance-report-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cyrus-Shephard-traffic-performance-report-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cyrus-Shephard-traffic-performance-report.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1539806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyrus Shepard, a search optimizer, disavowed all known incoming links to his website. It experienced no material traffic change. <em>Click image to enlarge. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shepard believes Google processed the document, as his site encountered a slight traffic <em>increase<\/em> shortly after submitting the disavow list. But the search engine then ignored it, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The only change was the number of backlinks reported in Search Console, although it could have been a widespread reporting bug as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-search-console-links-report-fixed-37499.html\">many sites experienced it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hence Google likely ignores disavows unless your site receives a manual penalty. There&#8217;s no reason to invest in preemptive disavow services.<\/p>\n<h4>Manual link-related penalties are rare<\/h4>\n<p>I know of very few manual link penalties in recent years, and I&#8217;ve witnessed just one this year. This likely means Google doesn&#8217;t require help or suggestions to determine which links are unnatural or spammy and will likely <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-disavow-link-tool-will-go-away-at-some-point-440205\">drop<\/a> the disavow tool eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, if your site received a link-related manual penalty (as reported in Search Console) and you cannot remove the unnatural links, the disavow tool remains an option. 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