Disavow Tool

[Palmbourne]

2 Questions any help appreciated:

I have had a spam url in my Disavow file with Google since last September but it still shows up as linked to my site, is this correct?

If a url has say 100 pages all with your anchor text and it is a spam website do you Disavow the domain url or do you have enter all the pages in the Disavow spreadsheet?

[TomRayner]

Hey there

First question - this is fine. The disavow file stops Google from counting that link as part of your link profile, but it doesn't stop it reporting as linking to your site.  In order for that to happen, you would need to physically break the link.

Second - you're more than welcome to use the domain:spamsite.com command - Google are happy to accept that.  So yes, for a site containing 100 links or more, use the domain: command and you'll be fine.  I've tried and tested this and it's worked for me.

Hope this helps.

[Palmbourne]

Thank you for you response, can you explain what you mean by domain:spamsite.com do I just enter the full url address of the domain?

[TomRayner]

If you want to disavow an entire domain, that's how you enter it.

Let's say you wanted to disavow http://www.spamsite.com/spam.html and all of seomoz.org (I'm sure you don't!)

This is what you'd put in your disavow file:

http://www.spamsite.com/spam.html
domain:seomoz.org

You need to put that "domain:" bit in front of the site's root domain in order to disavow all of the links on the site.

[Palmbourne]

Sorry to sound thick but on my spreadsheet it will look like this which is an actual spam link on my site:

domain:geeky.com http://www.geeky.com/ or like this

domain:geeky.com http://www.geeky.com/spam.html

[TomRayner]

Remember it's one URL per line.

If you want to disavow all of geeky.com, all you need to do is:

domain:geeky.com

That's all!

[Njave_MCP]

For the sake of this argument, I have a website where there were some 120-150 spammy links created. Basically I see a ton of low quality bookmarking sites who are somewhat scraping content of each other. Very few anchor text names and those are taken from authority sites in the niche as well, the others (some 80% of them) are direct domain name anchor text links to the site in question now. So, would any of you recommend adding all those links into the disavow tool if nothing is happening in terms of penalties or ranking changes now? I am having a lot of opposite opinions about this matter. Thanks!