A New Tool from Google to Disavow our Website Links

Recently Google introduces a tool that enables you to disavow links to your site. When your website has been notified of a manual spam action based on “unnatural links”, this tool can help you address the issue. If you haven’t gotten this notification, this tool generally isn’t something you need to worry about.

When you have been caught by linkspam, you may have seen a message in Webmaster Tools about “unnatural links” pointing to your site. Google will send you this message when it sees evidence of paid links, link exchanges, or other link schemes that violate our quality guidelines.

If you get this message, it is recommended to remove from our website as many spammy or low-quality links to your site as possible. This is the best idea because it addresses the problem at the root. If you remove the bad links directly, you’re helping to prevent Google and other search engines from taking action again in the future. You’re also helping to protect your site’s image, since people will no longer find spammy links pointing to your site on the web and jump to conclusions about your website or business.

You can find very few spammy and unnatural links of your website, and there are still some links you just can’t look to get down, that’s a good time to visit our new Disavow links page. When you reach this page, you’ll first select your site.

Then you are prompted to upload a file containing the links you want to disavow.

All You need to upload a text with one url per line. An extract of a valid file might look like the following:

# Contacted owner of spamexampledomain1.com on 7/1/2012 to

# ask for link removal but got no response

 domain:spamexampledomain1.com

 # Owner of spamdomain2.com removed most links, but missed these

http://www.spamexampledomain2.com/contentA.html

http://www.spamexampledomain2.com/contentB.html

http://www.spamexampledomain2.com/contentC.html

In the above example, lines that begin with a pound sign (#) are considered comments and Google ignores them. The keyword “domain:” indicates that you’d like to disavow links from all pages on a particular site (in this case, “spamdomain1.com”). You can also apply for to disavow links on specific pages (in this case, three individual pages on spamdomain2.com). We currently support one disavowal file per site and the file is shared among site owners in Webmaster Tools. If you want to update the file, you’ll need to download the existing file, modify it, and upload the new one. The file size limit is 2MB.

Actual Source From http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in