How To Use Google Disavow Tool

As website owners, we receive backlinks from so many sources when we produce quality content. People love linking to great resources, right?

When we rank in Google for specific keywords, we may receive backlinks from some automated junk websites with spammy backlink profiles. If there are one or two links, there may not be an issue, but if you receive several backlinks from junk and spammy websites, Google may consider your site spammy, or sometimes it may penalize your site as well.

After all, everything at Google runs on a specific algorithm, and if your site raises a flag in that algorithm, it may consider your site as spam.

Fortunately, there is a way to overcome this issue. Like Bing, Google has a tool called Google Disavow Tool, which allows webmasters to submit the backlinks they don’t want Google to consider as backlinks.

The Best Way to use Google Disavow Tool

If you have got a backlink from spammy websites or your competitor did it intentionally to move your site down from the search engine result page, you can use this tool.

Using Google Disavow link tool

You need to prepare a disavow list in a notepad file and submit it to Google by clicking on the upload disavow list button on that page.

When should you use this tool?

  • Manual action by Google
  • Lots of spammy backlinks generated by your competitor
  • When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

What are the guidelines for creating a disavow list?

Google has specified everything clearly about disavow file format. Check out the file format here.