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Google gives instruction on how to do it in bulk [0]. You can: - Download your links from webmaster tools. - Edit the file so it contains just the undesirable

by nhebb 13y ago

Google gives instruction on how to do it in bulk [0]. You can: - Download your links from webmaster tools. - Edit the file so it contains just the undesirable links. - Use the disavow tool [1] to upload the file. (If your livelihood depends a lot on organic traffic, that is one scary red button. The wording on the page coupled with the button text makes it sound like you will disavow all the links to your website.) [0] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2648487 http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... [1] https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?pli=1 https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?p...

arbuge 13y ago
Not really a "bulk" solution at all... "- Edit the file so it contains just the undesirable links." That's the part where intensive manual labor comes in, weeding through those links one by one.
- nhebb 13y ago
  Oh, I know. I guess we're supposed to be thankful for being able to submit a single file, though. I also noticed that the help page states "(the file type must be .txt and it must be encoded in UTF-8 or 7-bit ASCII)". How many non-technical people even know what that means?
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    How many websites that are concerned with SEO cannot find somebody who can know what that means for them? And what are the chances that if somebody doesn't know what that means they will mess it up? It is not like UTF-8/ASCII is something that you have to go out of your way to choose.. it is going to be what is defaulted to.
    - leephillips 13y ago
      What if you've never heard of SEO but are being attacked by competitors planting spam links, taking advantage of Google's broken algorithms?
      - jlgreco 13y ago
        Whether or not they have heard the term before, I think that people who care about their website's google results and don't know how they could possibly find someone to help them make a text file are a minority not really worth worrying about.

by nhebb 13y ago

arbuge 13y ago

Not really a "bulk" solution at all... "- Edit the file so it contains just the undesirable links." That's the part where intensive manual labor comes in, weeding through those links one by one.

nhebb 13y ago
Oh, I know. I guess we're supposed to be thankful for being able to submit a single file, though. I also noticed that the help page states "(the file type must be .txt and it must be encoded in UTF-8 or 7-bit ASCII)". How many non-technical people even know what that means?
- jlgreco 13y ago
  How many websites that are concerned with SEO cannot find somebody who can know what that means for them? And what are the chances that if somebody doesn't know what that means they will mess it up? It is not like UTF-8/ASCII is something that you have to go out of your way to choose.. it is going to be what is defaulted to.
  - leephillips 13y ago
    What if you've never heard of SEO but are being attacked by competitors planting spam links, taking advantage of Google's broken algorithms?
    - jlgreco 13y ago
      Whether or not they have heard the term before, I think that people who care about their website's google results and don't know how they could possibly find someone to help them make a text file are a minority not really worth worrying about.