Google disavow tool ( how long does it take ? )

[William.Lau]

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

[Jonathan1979]

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.

[KeriMorgret]

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?

[mezozcorp]

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

ignores them from I've read.

[mezozcorp]

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

[Jonathan1979]

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.

[mezozcorp]

It was a penguin penalty

[Jonathan1979]

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

[mezozcorp]

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.

[CLTranslation]

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