Hello guys! Please help me on this, I think my site's got some spammy/low quality backlinks, I want to remove them and keep my site clean. I know how to find backlinks (backlinkwatch, ahrefs, majestic seo etc.), but I want to know how to find out the low quality links and how to remove them? Help me out please
If a site is spammy, use Google's disavow tool to remove/disavow all its links. If the site is not spammy, just unrelated, you don't need to disavow its backlinks, but you can if you want to. It is also possible to cherry pick backlinks to disavow rather than a whole site. Also check for link warnings or penalties in Google Webmaster Tools. These will give you examples of links should get rid of. Be aggressive when you remove bad links, don't go step by step (you would only loose time).
This is a guideline from Webmaster tool helping you to use the disavow tool to prevent the bad link: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en You need to have your website verified in the webmaster tools first to receive notification from google. This is a MUST to get latest announce about unusual activities on your link building profile.
If you with WP there is tons of Plugins that will help you to prevent spammy links but if you are using other web site creation method best thing contact host and ask support what are the options you can get hop help u just a bit,,,,
In an excel sheet: Extract all your backlinks Get pagerank of each of your backlink domain Get indexed pages of each of your backlink domain Get Meta Title of each of your backlink domain (Check which domain titles have words like - "Free, SEO, backlink, article, submission etc." remove links from here rightaway) sort lowest pagerank with lowest index pages in excel - most of these websites are likely to be of low quality, quickly verify each website and mark them to be removed. This way you can identify about 70-80% of your bad links. You can then manually verify the remaining domains. Good Luck!
Thank you everyone for your help, you guys are amazing! But I got someone to do it for me, I'll learn it from him this time.
the best way to remove unwanted links is by contacting the site owners but usually only about 10% of the people reply. using disavow tool won't help you if you don't make an effort to remove the link itself. If you got a manual penalty and try to just disavow then you will never get successful reconsideration. it takes a hard work to remove all the spam.
Pagerank isn't the thing you should be worried about, it really doesn't matter. Go through your links, cut out the ones that are obviously spammy, junky, pornographic, completely unrelated links (to the subject material of your site) or foreign TLD's leading to sites with low domain authority. With these guidelines in mind, its good to have a lot of different kinds (directories, resource, etc) of links with different DA authority levels.
why do you think you got spammy links? do you have some negative effect? what i mean is that what you need to understand not what links to remove first, but what you need to get. For example, if you have too many commercial links, you can 2 options: 1) remove some part to get natural balance between link types 2) add other links to get natural balance.. just an example