Is there a way to easily add "domain:" in front of an entire list of domains you want to disavow?
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I'm submitting some disavow reports for clients. As most of you likely know you can either disavow a URL or a domain. So, to disavow a url, you would enter into the text file:
http://www.example.com/this_page.html
and to disavow the entire domain you would enter:
domain:example.com
I find that in most cases you would want to disavow the domain. For example, if there is a backlink on www.exampledirectory.com/health/page24/, by the time Google goes to disavow that link it may be on page 25.
However, it is super time consuming to take my list of urls from a spreadsheet and type, "domain:" in front and also remove the http://www.
Is there a way this can be done programatically?
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Great! I'll let you know how it works out. It'll be a couple of days before I'm done the current link audit so I'll report back after that.
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Aw, thanks. Hopefully I can figure this out. But if not, I'll be in touch.
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You should be able to use the concatenate formula in the same way except I am not sure if the $ will behave in the same way. Try it and see
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I'm on a Mac as well Marie but have MS Excel so can't help you on the others I'm afraid.
However, if you get stuck, you are more than welcome to mail me the spreadsheet and I will do the find and replace for you, then mail it back again.
Andy
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Thanks so much Andy and James! I really should invest some time in learning more about spreadsheets!
I work from a Mac...do you know if I can do the same thing either on Google Docs or on Numbers?
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Hi Marie,
Quite easily actually...
In MS Excel, all you have to do is move your list of domains to column B and in column A enter domain: once say in this case in cell A2
Then in column C enter this formula =CONCATENATE($A$2,B2)
You should then be able to drag down in the usual way to replicate the formula. It will retain the A2 cell but change B each time and you'll get a list of domain:http://exampledomain.com in column C.
Andy (above) has explained how to do the other part of your question.
Let me know if you have any problems.
All the best,
James
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Just do a find and replace in Excel...
Find http://www
Replace with domain:
Then hit "replace all" - It will go off and do them all for you.
Andy
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