LinkResearchTools (LRT.CO)

"𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨, 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢" 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆? I guess a couple very visible SEOs will disagree, by protocol and affiliation with Google, but it looks like that this (still) isn't true, after Google claiming this since 2016 very loud, and not so loud since I'm doing SEO & links (2003). Google has their models, and they may discount some. But not all, ever. And that's key. Over the past 6 weeks we've heard from more and more recoveries from the so called "𝗛𝗖𝗨/𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗺 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲" by doing disavows and de-optimizing internal links. The messaging about the update got a message from Gary Ilyes sprinkled in, which I haven't heard be so vocal about links for years - but it was later retracted, as in the past. Some of the results shown seem outright unbelievable, so I guess your mileage may vary - and if you've used (a lot) of artificial links then you're probably better off by reviewing and disavowing, and of course making sure that those disavowed links actually get crawled (e.g. using Link Detox Boost). If the links were ignored anyways, 100%, then disavowing them won't hurt. But they weren't, all, it seems. I've also personally performed such disavows and have seen some interesting trend changes. My recommendations for you: ✔️ If you do a serious review of your backlinks and find terrible links you don't like then disavow. ✔️ If all the naysayers are right and it's worthless, you tried yet one another thing. Good. ✔️ If those reports I see are indicative for your situation, you win. ✔️ If you make a mistake and disavow those magic powerful links that still kept you floating, then shame on your for blindly trusting a random tool output without review, are you even an SEO? But no worries, you can always un-disavow and get out of your own trap. But better be safe, than sorry. Very carefully review whatever tool output you use. Doing it in LRT, my product since 2009, you have a process prepared for voting on results, training the model, and if you have never done that that's some extra work - that pays off over time. LRT also aggregates data from many places, so a domain I just looked at had 8815 Domains referring, with Ahrefs listing only 2.1k Ref. Domains (All time 6.9K)... it takes some extra time to get all that data combined tho, and a more generic tool like Ahrefs just doesn't do that. But LRT can import their data, like from many others. But whatever you do, be aware that you can seriously hurt you website if you disavow cool links from BBC, CNN and other cool sites. You are the SEO in charge, still! No excuses. To quote John Mu, of course there's many other more important things to do, and if your site sucks, has poor content for example, then by all means fix that first. Good luck and attention to detail for your link audit!

Immediate recommendation: It's eye watering sad how many "expert" people state their opinions as facts on something they have not even worked with... ...based on (yet another) press release by Google and a handful of obvious penalties that were due anyways. This is true more than ever with this (announced) update. Ignore them. Folks that never did anything with Expired Domains write about things as new that Google has been doing for 10+ years, for example. Ignore them. When it comes to how Google filters and even penalizes (parts) of websites and links I've got the business @lrt_co since 2009 - so that's highly relevant to me. I'll wait for the noise and all those "no shit sherlock" takes before I put together something of substance... ...and that will include data, not just "hot takes" from so called "high profile" SEOs that are good at talking but haven't been in the trenches of what this update is about for years, if ever. Stay tuned. Stay calm. Meanwhile I recommend to stay on the email lists of both AIPRM and LRT.

When you listen to the wrong people and are too cautious in your disavow or don't boost your disavows, it can take 4 months to get rid of a penalty. Symptom: Manual Action for Unnatural Links Solution: Disavow and Link Detox Boost Sorry for your killed business case Mike!

7 Link-Related Factors (of 100s) found in the #Yandexleak - Age of links 📅 - Anchor text 🔗 - Pagerank 💻 - Link relevance to query 🔍 - Pagerank bonus for long-tail queries 🥇 - Link relevance exact/phrase match anchor/query 🎯 - BM25 for anchor/body linkresearchtools.com/blog/y…

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