The disavow tool in Google Webmasters Tools allows website owners to submit their site’s spammy links to Google in an attempt to remove the bad links from Google’s ranking factor. A bad link is considered anything from a paid link to a link farm to blog spam.
Here is how to tell Google to not take bad backlinks into consideration when deciding your page rank:
- In Google Webmasters, choose your client.
- Click Search Traffic, choose Links to Your Site and More under Who links the most.
- Download table and check all the links for bad backlinks.
- Once you determine the backlinks, try to contact webmasters to remove links. You most likely won’t get an answer.
- In Notepad, create a file and copy this example:
# example.com removed most links, but missed these
https://spam.example.com/stuff/comments.html
https://spam.example.com/stuff/paid-links.html
# contacted webmasters to remove links, but
# got no response
domain: BadURL.com
#contact webmasters to remove links, but
# got no response
domain: OtherBadURL.com
6. Save as text file.
7. Look up the Disavow Tool, choose a client and click Disavow Links.
8. Upload your text file and hit submit
Keep in mind that it takes Google a few months to remove all of your submitted bad backlinks.