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Seven Important Facts About the Disavow Tool

Many believed the Google Disavow Links Tool is a mystery. If you are trying to understand the principles of this tool, here are seven facts you should know about it.

1. Disavowed Links Remain in Webmaster Tools

There are a lot of forums where people say that the disavow tool doesn’t work and that the disavowed links are still seen in the Webmaster Tool.

It worth mentioning that when a link is disavowed, the next time Google crawls it an invisible no-follow tag will be added to that link. Unfortunately, there is no external evidence of this. As your no-follow links are shown in the Webmaster Tools, the disavowed links are shown as well.

2. The Size of the Disavow File

     Aaseesh Marina, a Google representative, stated that the disavow file has a 2 megabyte size. Anyway it is considered to be not that small.

3. The Webspam Team Does Not Read the Comments in Your Disavow File

The disavow file is processed automatically, Google’s John Mueller said. If there are many comments in your disavow file, nobody is going to read them. The comments are important for your better understanding of the file.

4. Don’t Include No-Follow Links in the Disavow File

Google rankings cannot be affected by no-followed links as they do not carry any PageRank. Here is Mueller’s opinion on no-followed links:

 “It is not necessary to include no-follow links due to the fact that what happens to the links you disavow, when recrawling them we process them similarly to other no-follow links.

5. You Can Reavow The Disavowed Links

If you decide to disavow a certain link, there is the possibility to remove it and reuplaod it. The next time Google processes that link, they will notice that it is not your disavow file anymore and will count it towards your PageRank.

In other words, if you for a certain reason decide to remove a link, then when Google reprocesses that URL they will treat it as a normal link again. But, if the link has been a problematic one in the past it will be a problematic link again.

6. The Issue Related To 301 Redirect

If you have bad links pointing to Site A, you decide to disavow them. Hence you implement a 301 redirect to Site B. The redirect passes close to 100% of the link equity related to that link and also passes unnatural link signals. In brief, if you redirect pages from one site to another one and the original source has bad links, it would be better to add that links to the disavow file for the second site.

7. Disavow Info Isn’t Used Against Sites That Are Being Disavowed

As far as the disavow links tool is concerned, Google doesn’t use that data against sites being disavowed due to the existence of a huge number of reasons why a link has been disavowed. Even if some links are in a disavow file it doesn’t mean they are necessarily bad.

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