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I have heard that disavowing is actually not a good practice because you can hurt your own ranking without much benefit (if there isn't a problem).
by thomk 10y ago
I have heard that disavowing is actually not a good practice because you can hurt your own ranking without much benefit (if there isn't a problem).
- austenallred 10y agoTrue if there isn't a problem. But most sites nowadays have problems. The tricky part is links that look spammy to you can be viewed by Google as legitimate. So as a practice I only disavow the spammiest of spammy links.
- appleiigs 10y agoDisavowing definitely hurt my website. I disavowed a handful of the most spammy links and I dropped from the consistently 2nd search result to 4th quickly. I "un-disavowed" and now back to 3rd. Problem for me was I didn't know if I was getting hurt by the spammy links or not. You don't know if you have a problem or not.
- bhartzer 10y agoIf you don't know what you're doing then disavowing can hurt rankings. But if you know what you're doing, disavow is awesome. It works.
- walshemj 10y agoseconded disavow is a powerful tool but not to be used lightly