If you do so, your website will be at risk, and who knows, you may be penalized by Google. Now, a question might pop into your mind about what type of links you should need. Or knowing what links are valuable and bad is another core thing you should consider.

Whenever you realize that some links impact your website negatively, you should disavow them as soon as possible.

Keep reading the article, as it tends to cover all the necessary information to disavow bad links.

Things You Need to Know About Link Building

Search engines like Google always want to deliver the best search results possible to the audience. That’s why, when it comes to ranking any website on the search engine result pages, Google tries to find websites that are authorized enough.

Moreover, when it comes to determining the authority of a website, Google looks for relevant and quality backlinks the site generates. This is why SEO experts worldwide focus on creating backlinks from different websites.

But here is where a mistake takes place. While creating backlinks for websites, some people often mess up and rush to increase the number of backlinks. Instead, they are supposed to focus on creating quality content.

Always try to remember a formula. Quality content+Quantity content= Higher position on the SERP.

But anyone can put links to your website anywhere on the internet. You can’t hide your website address from others. In this case, the issue of bad links becomes more acute.

You may create random or spammy content, but it won’t provide you with any real benefit. But what should you do once you create bad content and want to disavow the bad links?

• Find the Out the Bad links

The first step you need to perform is to find the bad links on your website. For this, you can use Google Search Console for better results. However, you can use other SEO tools as well.

If you want to use Google Search Console, follow the steps below.

• Expand the ‘Search Traffic’ section.
• Click ‘Links to your website
• Click ‘More’
• Click ‘Download more sample links

Once you are done with doing so, you will be able to determine the bad links to your website. 

• Try to Remove the Bad Links Manually at the First

Here, you need to remove the links manually. It may take some time for you, but believe me, it is good practice. At least you can inform Google that you attempt to remove the bad links. 

• Create a Disavow File of the Bad links

Now you have to create a disavow file of the bad links that you have detected from Google Search Console. For this, you need to include all the bad links you have detected. It will be a plain text (.txt) document. 

• Upload the Disavow of the bad links

This is your last task. Once you create a disavow file, now it’s important you upload the file Google Disavowal Tool.

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