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    • mezozcorp
      mezozcorp last edited by

      Hello,

      I disavowed some of my links about three months but still see them in my link profile, using OSE?

      How long does it take for Google to make them nofollow.

      Thanks

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      • William.Lau
        William.Lau last edited by

        From previous experience and from what I've read, it is usually in affect within days. At most 2 weeks.

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        • Jonathan1979
          Jonathan1979 @William.Lau last edited by

          I was under the impression that if you are hit with say penguin penalty then you would also have to wait until the next refresh.  Also if you have a manual penalty you will have to make a reconsideration request i believe.

          If I am wrong, hopefully someone else can chime in.

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          • KeriMorgret
            KeriMorgret last edited by

            Disavowing links to Google isn't going to affect your OSE report. Moz doesn't have a way of seeing what you've told Google, so we have no way to know which links you've disavowed.

            I believe it's internally Google will treat those links as nofollow, but they cannot physically modify the code on the linking site, so those links won't be marked nofollow for OSE and other crawlers.

            I hope this helps some?

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            • mezozcorp
              mezozcorp @William.Lau last edited by

              Most of the links that i submitted are nofollow links so maybe thats the case since Google

              ignores them from I've read.

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              • mezozcorp
                mezozcorp @KeriMorgret last edited by

                Thanks Keri,

                Most of my links that i disavowed are blog comments and they are all nofollow links

                so do nofollow links hurt my website?

                Thanks

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                • Jonathan1979
                  Jonathan1979 @mezozcorp last edited by

                  There is a good video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEqypgIJME

                  Matt Cutts basically says nofollow links won't hurt, but if you spam lots then they may make a manual penalty.  Would be worth checking webmaster tools to see if this is the case, otherwise I doubt you needed to worry.

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                  • mezozcorp
                    mezozcorp @Jonathan1979 last edited by

                    It was a penguin penalty

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                    • Jonathan1979
                      Jonathan1979 @mezozcorp last edited by

                      Then I believe you may have to wait a month or so for the next refresh to see any major improvement.

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                      • mezozcorp
                        mezozcorp @Jonathan1979 last edited by

                        I've seen this video before, my website was effected by Penguin 2.0 (not manual penalty) while Google says nofollow links won't hurt but it seems otherwise.

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                        • CLTranslation
                          CLTranslation last edited by

                          is any body tell me the how we know we are improving

                          my spam score is 5

                          so i created a disavow file and upload on google. but i don't know what would be the next step

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