When you discover that spammy domains are linking to your website, you will want to disavow these links so they don’t hurt your website’s ranking or domain authority.
- To look for spammy or toxic backlinks, use https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/ and select the Spam Score tab.
- Look for links with a 70% or higher spam score.
- Go here: https://www.cuteseotools.net/disavow-file-generator and paste each of the spam links into the field in a separate line.
- Click the button to download the links in a text file.
- Go here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main – you will need to already have access to your customer’s Webmaster Tools account.
- Upload the text file.
IMPORTANT: If there is already a disavow file that has been uploaded, you MUST download it, copy the existing disavow links into the text file you downloaded in Step 4, save it, and then upload the .txt file containing all links, both new and old.
For more in-depth information on disavow files, see https://urlprofiler.com/blog/how-to-create-and-submit-a-disavow-file/.