When you send disavow link in google webmaster?

[EVERWORLD.ENTERTAIMENT]

I am just wondering if you disavow a link from google webmaster to a certain website. Does that hurt the other websites ranking at all?

Thanks

[GPainter]

Hiya,

No it does not, the other site will also not know you've disavowed them. It's a bit like no-following the link the link is still there but you are telling Google you don't want to pass the link juice or you're not affiliated with that link (sort of).

Hope that clears it up for you.

[Chris.Menke]

EVERWORLD,

I second what Chris said and point you to this thread on Webmaster World for additional confirmation: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4542078.htm

[MarieHaynes]

I agree with Chris and Chris - disavowing a site does not hurt that site.  There are a lot of people who really believe that Google is crowdsourcing the disavow info and using that info to penalize sites that are disavowed frequently.  John Mueller (who works for Google) said in a hangout a couple of times that this does not happen.  In one hangout he said, It doesn't happen "at the moment".  I'm not sure if that implies that perhaps mass disavowing could cause a site a problem in the future.

I doubt it will ever be an algorithmic or automatic thing, but I do believe that getting too many disavows could open a site up for a manual review.

With that being said, don't fear disavowing a site linking to you.  And, if someone has threatened you with putting you on their disavow I wouldn't worry about it at all.

[EVERWORLD.ENTERTAIMENT]

Thanks everyone for the confirmation!