Experience with Google Disawow Tool and discovering bad back-links

[Braumueller]

Hi Community,

is there any experience to tell here about  the disawow tool from Google? Any review?

It have helped revocer sites  beaten by Penguin or penalized after WMT Unnatural Link building message?

Which tools and methods you use to find bad back-links to submit for the disawow tool?

Thanks for your feedback,

[lbohen]

We have 1000s of links coming from www.wn.com. I have no idea why they link to us and our GA stats don't show any traffic from wn.com.

Could I disallow www.wn.com in our robots.txt file?

[Braumueller]

Yes,of course, but do you think is enough, to reference the use of disawow tool, where the list of links which could not be removed was submitted to disavow, so google can mark them as nofollow? Secondary, as supplement to add a list, from urls where links was removed.

In any case, the webspam team from Google could measure it anyway, without this kind of protocoll?

[MarieHaynes]

Not only do you have to file a reconsideration request but you'll need to show good evidence that you have tried to get as many links as possible manually removed as well.

[Braumueller]

Thanks, for your reply. If you say, "You will likely not be able to remove a manual unnatural links warning by just using the disavow file on its own", you mean, after you use the disawow tool, you have file a reconsideration request?

[MarieHaynes]

I use the disavow tool a lot, but only for sites that have received a manual unnatural links penalty.  I do as much work as I can to manually get links removed and for the unnatural links that I can't get removed then I include them in the disavow.txt file.  I've had great success getting penalties removed this way.

You will likely not be able to remove a manual unnatural links warning by just using the disavow file on its own.

For Penguin, most SEOs believe that you cannot recover from Penguin until Google refreshes the Penguin algorithm.  As the algorithm has not refreshed since the disavow tool came out, no one can say whether or not the disavow tool is helpful.  The documentation that was released with the disavow tool hints that it may be helpful in Penguin cases but it's kind of vague.