Google launches their Disallow Tool

[irvingw]

This says to me that your site was spared an across the board penalty, but your rankings for specific keywords that have been overused in your anchor text have been suppressed. I would look at your incoming link anchor texts and see which one(s) you are no longer ranking for.

[tdawson09]

Thanks... Should have read the YouTube description.

[tdawson09]

Alan, good to hear from you. How is SEO doing down under?

Brad

iboats.com

[AlanMosley]

Very busy with a new project out of Arizona.

i have been following Mitt closely. He might just get over the line.

[AlanMosley]

The damage was done before i came on the picture and there is no stats from before. the site rangs below other sites owned by the same clent with much weaker linking profiles. As i mentioend the site has the best of links, this is why i am prepared to get rid of any links that look even the slightest doggy. The site should rank number 1 when you look at the competition

I just dont have the time or budget to try to ask for removal, a attemp was made long ago with no sucess.

[William.Lau]

This is gonna be interesting how everything works out.

I've sent a reconsideration request a day or two prior to the release. I will see how that request goes and then update the spreadsheet with new links I've removed as well as using disavow.

So far my webmaster response is about 10%, so you have no idea how much this tool can relieve some pain after so many attempts.

[RyanKent]

So far my webmaster response is about 10%, so you have no idea how much this tool can relieve some pain after so many attempts.

To the best of my knowledge, the Disavow Tool will have absolutely no impact on your success rate. It seems designed to help ensure webmasters who have a manual penalty lifted are not affected by Penguin.

[Ahhprods]

I admit it... I panicked and disavowed a ton of domains that I didn't recognize as good links and I went from mid-page-2 to lower-page-3.  So...my question is:  what happens if I submit a new disavow file that has only a fraction of the links.  Or, better yet, what if I delete the disavow file altogether with a file that has a comment saying Oops, sorry, we didn't know what we were doing with this tool and respectfully request to undo our mess".

A very good SEO told me to not chase after my disavow list, and I get what he's saying, but it's hard to not remember the days pre-disavow when I was at least on page 2 ... I was on page 1 for 14 years since 1998 until penguin hit!  (I sell bean bag chairs and am speaking of serps for "bean bag chairs").

www.ahhprods.com in case anyone is curious

Thanks!

[RyanKent]

If you Disavowed "good" links to your site, your rankings may be lowered as a result.

If you Disavowed "bad" links, then your Penguin issue could be reduced or resolved.

The best course of action is to allow a trained SEO professional examine each linking domain to determine if the links violate Google's Guidelines and only Disavow the links which do violate those guidelines. Also, the Disavow tool should not be used until after every possible action has been taken to remove the link. Google is quite clear on this topic. If you use the Disavow tool without "significantly" reducing the manipulative links to your site, it likely will not help.

[CommercePundit]

Hi Irving,

Today i have Compiled a comprehensive backlink report for one of my hotel client (http://www.fairfieldinnhotelcedarrapids.com/).I have identified all bad links and create one .txt file and upload via google disallow tool. now my question is, How do i know that all dead links has been removed? Is there any way to know status?

Thanks