Google has launched a new and widely anticipated “disavow links” tool. The tool was announced by the head of Google’s web spam team Matt Cutts, when speaking during a keynote at the Pub con conference today.
The tool is live and can be found here. It has been beta tested by some selected SEOs already for the past few weeks. About 45 minutes after Cutts spoke, Google formally announced the tool on the Google Webmaster Central blog.
Earlier this year, Bing launched its own disavow links tool.
Disavowing Links
Cutts warned that the tool should be used with caution. He also warned that publishers should first try to remove links they are concerned about pointing at them by first working with site owners hosting links or with companies they may have purchased links through.
The format will be to list URLs in a text file, either individually or to exclude all links from a particular site using domain: format like this:
domain:google.comdomain:yahoo.comdomain:facebook.com
Both formats can be mixed into a single file, as shown below in an example from Google’s blog post about the new tool:
From the blog post:
In this example, lines that begin with a pound sign (#) are considered comments and Google ignores themThe “domain:” keyword indicates that you’d like to disavow links from all pages on a particular site (in this case, “spamdomain1.com”).You can also request to disavow links on specific pages (in this case, three individual pages on spamdomain2.com).
Once you’ve created your file, you then access the disavow link tool through Google Webmaster Central. You’ll select your site (as the screenshot at the top of this story shows), go through warnings, then select your file and submit:
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2 comments:
its really a nice tool for SEO's .. thanks for the updates...
Thanks Srujan for bringing this news to us, it's really a good update for all internet marketers to survive in SERPS.
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