Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted an interesting tip to SEOs around disavow file submissions. He said that you should not delete or remove the original disavow file when ...

What is a toxic link? Are toxic links the same thing as spammy links? Can too many of these hurt your site’s ability to rank? If you are uncertain as to whether you would benefit from filing a disavow ...

The disavow tool is variously described as something Google provided in order to help it deal with negative SEO or as a way to force information about link networks from publishers that have been ...

In October 2013, Google gave us the Disavow tool. This allowed webmasters to instruct Google not to count the link metrics that flowed either through certain links or from certain domains. If you’ve ...

My big issue, as I said before, this is not a win/win - this is the best spam reporting tool Google has launched to date. Suffering webmasters point fingers at their competitors and friends and blame ...

If you've identified any suspicious or low-quality backlinks you believe might result Google taking a manual action, Matt Cutts recommends disavowing those links. This is a different stance on the ...

In a Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller stated in clear terms that the “vast majority of sites” do not need to use the disavow tool. He noted that Google actually hides the tool and makes it ...

Google's John Mueller again spoke about the disavow link file. This time he said that while "most sites don't need it, he added but "that's not all sites." Some sites may indeed need to disavow links.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Negative SEO and the potential impact of bad backlinks have been growing concerns for many webmasters since Google’s Penguin update ...