Bing beats google to disavow links

[AlanMosley]

You can now disavow bad links in Bing WMT, google has stated they will be doing the same, this should shake up the rankings when many sites get penalties lifted

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2012/06/27/disavow-links-you-don-t-trust.aspx

[NaHoku]

What tools do you use to determine which links you will be disavowing?

[AlanMosley]

I just look at them, its not hard to tell. If in doubt and the site has not much PageRank then you have not much to lose.

[EGOL]

I am not going to spend a single minute of time on this.  Not one minute.

Links happen, right?  So how can you protect yourself from malicious link building?  How do you tell the engine you just don't want to associate your content with "that" site?

Busy sites will have thousands to millions of links that were created by spammers and garbage site builders such as updowner.

Bing is making this because they can't do their job.

[AlanMosley]

I think the idea is paid links, if you have a clint that has been naughty, then this is good idea, i am waiting for googles version the said they were going to bring out soon, as i have a clint with a un-natrual link penalty

[EGOL]

Yes, this would be a good way for webmasters to confess that they have purchased links and turn off their value.   If that is what Bing wanted this tool to be used for they should say that explicitly.

Instead they say.....

Use the Disavow Links tool to submit page, directory, or domain URLs that may contain links to your site that seem "unnatural" or appear to be from spam or low quality sites.

.... which has a very different meaning to me.

Bing is full of BS.

They can't do their job on links and they can't communicate.