Run an in-depth analysis of your backlinks
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 9:22 am
Carefully analyze all your inbound backlinks and categorize them into:
Good
Paid
Spam
3. Contact the managers
Ask them to remove toxic links pointing to your site. If you think a link has value, contact the webmaster and ask them to change the link attribute to rel=”nofollow”.
4. Disavow with caution!
Prepare a disavow .txt file (you can use SEMrush's Backlink Audit) and submit the file to Google.
5. Submit a request for reconsideration.
Submit a reconsideration request to Google with a detailed australia phone number data description of the steps you took and what you cleaned up.
Prevention is the key
Dealing with Google penalties is not easy, which is why it is important to constantly run audits of your backlinks, maintain a healthy backlink profile, and monitor for strange variations in the data.
You might think you won’t get hit with a Google penalty, but SEMRush’s study found that just a dozen unnatural links are enough to get your site penalized. So err on the safe side (and always use white-hat tactics.
Good
Paid
Spam
3. Contact the managers
Ask them to remove toxic links pointing to your site. If you think a link has value, contact the webmaster and ask them to change the link attribute to rel=”nofollow”.
4. Disavow with caution!
Prepare a disavow .txt file (you can use SEMrush's Backlink Audit) and submit the file to Google.
5. Submit a request for reconsideration.
Submit a reconsideration request to Google with a detailed australia phone number data description of the steps you took and what you cleaned up.
Prevention is the key
Dealing with Google penalties is not easy, which is why it is important to constantly run audits of your backlinks, maintain a healthy backlink profile, and monitor for strange variations in the data.
You might think you won’t get hit with a Google penalty, but SEMRush’s study found that just a dozen unnatural links are enough to get your site penalized. So err on the safe side (and always use white-hat tactics.