38% of SEOs Never Disavow Links: Are you one among them or the other 62%?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

Links disavowing is such a advanced tasks in SEO with decent amount of risk involved. I thought many wouldn't follow use this method as Google been saying that they try to ignore bad links and there will be no penalty for such bad links and negative SEO is really a rare case. But I wondered to see only 38% SEOs never used this method and other 62% are disavowing links monthly, quarterly or yearly. I just wonder do we need to disavow links now? It's very easy to say to disavow a link which is not good but difficult to conclude them whether they are hurting already or we will get hurt once they been disavowed.

Thanks

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[LureCreative]

We have not disavowed any links since late last year, and Google announced they would be "ignoring" low-quality links and not"penalizing" because of them. We have not seen any of our clients rankings since we stopped disavowing. There is a great Moz post by Marie Haynes that you may want to check out- https://moz.com/blog/do-we-still-need-to-disavow-penguin. It was published in April 2017, so as I write this it is still relevant. Hope this helps and best of success!

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[Packaging-Group]

I believe a lot of it has to do with your overall link profile. If you are building a website with little/no links, each one plays a much more important role.

I disavow when it's clearly spam, and there has been a dip in rankings when the link appeared.

[Churchill1]

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[Moreleads]

Hi VTmoz,

We didn´t use to disavow a lot since most clients backlinks were done by us and always stayed clear from the "dark side of the moon".  We stopped altogether though after last year pinguin´s 4.0 update.