For the last several months there has been a great deal of discussion of negative SEO, what it is and how to counteract it. Matt Cutts, head of the Google Webspam team, talks about how Google is addressing negative SEO and explains how the Disavow Links tool works. Cutts specifically addresses the concerns of local small businesses, so be sure to watch all the way through.
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nice video. I was very confused about disallow links once it was published but after watching this matt cutt video I am totally aware of this new features. I have applied it on my sites.. Thanks once again
The Disavow Links tool is such a finger-in-the-dike solution.
If I was in a position where I didn’t understand SEO or have a search consulting team at my disposal, negative SEO, would be a legitimate concern. (And that describes most of the “mom and pop” shops Matt keeps talking about.) And the disavow tool is an after the fact solution. It certainly isn’t much of a stretch to see how a smaller e-commerce site could be essentially driven out of business in short order if they were penalized due to this sort of tactic. And I know Matt says it doesn’t happen much, but I’ve seen it twice in the last 6 months myself…
I Think he addressed it pretty good, I like the answer, sum it don’t try to fool Google!
The disavow tool is a great tool from google, trouble is if u disavow the wrong links . they need to make it simpler
I think that much bigger threat to “mom and pop” shops is schizophrenic Google’s algo than negative SEO. Negative SEO is not the real problem for most of sites, however, crazy and absurd changes in algo are definitely a threat…
The disavow tool is a good tool but we need to make sure for links it is little bit of complex. Ws have to very careful for links otherwise it will effect bad results.
Awesome ! Creation ever by Google…
Google updates its algorithm day by day and penalized Negative SEO. its easy to disavow a link by this tool because some websites charged for removing the link from its site.
Thanks for sharing helpful video. Lot of people gets confused about disallow link tool, above video is really helpful for those who understand which back-link is harmful & how can we remove unwanted or low quality link with the help of webmaster tool.
Good to hear that “Google” tries very hard to design an algorithm, now on-wards spammers will not overtake Google. Thanks Michelle for sharing a wonderful post.
disavow tool is a Effective tool from Google, It will help to stop spammer, and support to best and pure seo
Interesting. Matt touches on the fact that mom and pop sites don’t need to worry about this kind of attack. To me this implies that the algo could possible be very different for each niche.
I have always suspected that Google’s Algo. functions differently for non English speaking countries. Also based on the fact that In Belgium/Netherlands “link farms” still get high rankings.