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    • effectdigital
      effectdigital last edited by

      I'm pretty sure it's variable and depends on Google's perceived severity of infraction. I've seen disavow lists that never make a difference one way or the other, and ones where the list has been digested and I'm seeing movements within the next few days. Usually speaking, I find that if there's absolute zero impact for a couple of weeks, it's time to stop waiting as the list has probably been rejected, discarded or the work was incorrect and thus it had no impact. It's fairly unusual to submit a disavow, wait for weeks or months and then suddenly it kicks in. In my experience, they're relatively quick-acting! If you have waited nearly half a year I'd say that more waiting isn't going to help

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      • Vuly
        Vuly last edited by

        Thanks for your response! 🙂

        We only disavowed the bad links yesterday not afew months ago, however, none of these links where here last time we checked which was afew months ago.  These links are still appearing on Google Console however, it hasn't been 48 hours.

        Many of them are linking to websites that seem to be down, however some are actual porn/spam sites. We're very concerned as this has happened the week of Black Friday and we are scratching our heads looking for a fast solution.

        ** So the questions are;**

        _**1. While we understand we need to wait 48 hours for these links to be disavowed, how long after they are disavowed would it take to have the our website reappearing on Google again?

        2. What else can we do to speed up recovery penalty from unwanted nasty backlinks? **_

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        • effectdigital
          effectdigital @Vuly last edited by

          1.) It depends on Google's perception of what has happened, you may or may not get those rankings back (ever)

          i. If Google applied 'active' ranking reductions (usually signified by a penalty message in Google Search Console) then the disavow work alone wouldn't work, you'd also need to submit a reconsideration request. For a recon request to go through, especially a links one, it ranges from 2 weeks to 4 months for them to even respond to it (the higher range is usually for repeat offenders)

          ii. If Google applied active ranking reductions without serving you a penalty notice, the disavow on its own should be processed relatively quickly and rankings should begin returning a week or two after the disavow is processed. Note that this is the rarest circumstance, Google almost never apply active ranking reductions without also sending a penalty notification

          iii. If Google didn't apply any active ranking reductions, it simply means that links which used to count - no longer pass SEO authority. Doing a disavow doesn't magically bring the authority back (so in this situation you don't see ranking gains from disavow work, this would be called an algorithmic devaluation - not a penalty)

          Items (i) and (iii) are infinitely more commonplace than (ii), which is extremely rare

          2.) Build good links to replace the crappy ones you have lost

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                fmk9877 last edited by

                looking for the solution that how can I check my site coctool.

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                  why my site mod apk  DA is not showing

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                          how to use disavow?

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                              Why my site DA is not Increasing. APK Store Online

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                                • Sarasytan38
                                  Sarasytan38 last edited by

                                  I have lots of spam and porn backlinks on my sites GTA5-mobile.com and ppssppapk.info, can you tell me tell me how to disavow them? My sites DA  50+ of both sites.

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                                    ssebt6 last edited by

                                    I want to Increase my site DA. How can I increase my site DA? Kindly Help. I am getting Quality Backlinks but still, my DA is under 20.

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                                    • apkpoint
                                      apkpoint last edited by

                                      Google can take up to 2,3 Months to disavow any submitted links.

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                                      • apkpoint
                                        apkpoint @Sarasytan38 last edited by

                                        To Disavow Bad links Follow These Steps

                                        1. Make a file of all bad links
                                        2. Go to >https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
                                        3. Login through the same account which you are using for google webmasters.
                                        4. Submit the file.

                                        Goole will Disavow all the links you submitted with in 2,3 Months

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                                        • An0nymouse
                                          An0nymouse last edited by

                                          Are links to google's redirection site spammy? I have online shopping in Pakistan site and want to link this site to those urls.

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                                            bsjeodb last edited by

                                            How can i disavow bad backlinks on my website eagleapk

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