My brother sent me an email concerning his site about using their disavow service ! The site in question is funclownentertainment ( dot ) com 1) What tool can be used to investigate if I have penalties because of links 2) What is a good free tool to look at incoming links to my brothers site 3) Is there a tool to disavow links and what things can this tool besides telling google not to count links from certain sites ( not sure if the disavow function is to only tell google not to count incoming links from certain sites )
Someone contacted your brother and told him to use their disavow service? Or did Google send him notice that he was penalized. Please clarify. 1. There are a few tools you can use to see if you have a penalty, the first one that I suggest is is called panguin tool http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/ . This tool will show you via Analytics which algorithm updates hurt your site the most. That way you can track it down and understand what's caused a loss in rankings. I use this tool to check how many toxic links a website has: http://linkdelete.com/pricing/funclownentertainment.com There are other tools that do checks but none of them offer easy up front data like those. 2. There are free backlink checkers like http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ but be warned they only give you a small fraction of your links but it is a good place to start. I suggest buying tools like ahrefs and majestic to see all of the links pointed to your website. This is important because you don't want to miss any links. 3. Do not waste your time with disavow tools and the disavow tool in general. Its nothing more than a honeypot for Google to build a list of unnatural link sources and penalize websites. There is no evidence of the tool working. The best method is to remove the links as once the links are removed there's no possible way to penalize your website. Using disavow is a guessing game built on hopes and dreams.
Using the disavow tool is like using a sledgehammer to hang a picture in the first place. Tad busy this week but if I find a sec I will be happy to take a quick look for you. Nigel
ehck... SEO that was done on that site is entirely pointless and frankly, pretty dreadful. No immediately discernible penalty but that is what webmaster tools is for. Directories are terrible and not SEO yet that is the bulk of the profile. What I notice immediately looks like stuff folks peddle around here as SEO and or the link sales section. Buy dropped domain with a bit of largely fake PR, sell some links, shut down domain, move to another one. I am dealing with a site that hired someone from freelancer that pulled the same crap. Additionally, I have found a range of dimwits doing this shitty seo and then have their buddies charge to remove the links from the site. Its a huge ruse. I would also haul that site into this century as well. You could port that over to wordpress with pretty much zero effort and about 100 bucks. Nigel
Hi SEOSINCE99 It was not google whom contacted me, it was a email sent by some disavow servicing company online ! Anyway, is this something I can handle myself, I used the tool you recommended to see how many toxic links I have. Now how do I know which ones are toxic and not I looked at some of the links displayed from backlinkwatch and noticed that some are reputable sites, so is there a tool to see which sites that are linking to me are in bad neighborhoods and are considered a bad site to have a link from ? Now how do I know which ones are toxic and not I looked at some of the links displayed from backlinkwatch and noticed that some are reputable sites, so is there a tool to see which sites that are linking to me are in bad neighborhoods and are considered a bad site to have a link from ?