Could getting referral traffic from SEO moz damage your rankings?

[Nightwing]

Buon Giorno from OS grid reference SE404481

Having just read Googles https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2648487 disavow contnet something troubled me...

Is it a possibility you could damage the page rank of a site if you add its url in these posts. Put another way if I added a url pointing to a specific site would googles radar detect the source as SEO and penalise the site in some way?

Any insights welcome

[Horizon]

In theory, nope. URLs in these threads are nofollow so Google should not use any links here for ranking purposes. Besides, SEOmoz has a great authority and reputation, so even if it was followable, I don't think it would HARM. It probably won't help much, unless your business is related to SEO, but not harm.

Best,

Matt

[SoftzSolutions]

_No way. This will act just the way robots.txt works. It will discard the links coming from the website or pages that you think affecting the visibility of your website. This is certainly not going to affect the websites that you are going to Disavow. However, if a significant number of people are disavowing those websites and flagging them as low quality, it may create some issues for those sites. However, this does not mean that if a website gets disavowed by two or three people, Google will penalize it. _

[Horizon]

Sandip,

I'm giving you a thumbs up just because of your glorious moustache. Well done, sir.

(Your answer was pretty good too!)

Matt