Find and Disavow Toxic Links in 6 Steps With Search Console

Did you know you can disavow toxic links in Google Search Console? That's right, you can tell Google not to count those low quality, spam links against you. But there are some cautions....

This video walks through the process step by step and includes a live case study so you can see how it's done before doing it yourself.

Here are the 6 steps to disavowing links in Search Console:

1.) Consider the potential risks

2.) Decide if you truly need to use the tool

3.) Find your low quality / toxic links to disallow

4.) Create your list of spam pages and / or domains to disavow and save it as a .txt file.

NOTE: You can include comments if you like by starting a line with a # mark. Any lines that begin with # will be ignored by Google.

5.) Access the Disavow links tool at search.google.com/search-console/disavow-links

6.) Upload your disavow list in the proper format

And here's the Google help article on the subject: https://support.google.com/webmasters...

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