How to properly disavow negative or low quality backlinks from your website without removing links that actually add value to your backlink profile.

Disavowing low quality backlinks is part of the game. Everyone gets these over time and it’s completely natural. But it is also important that we clean these from time to time to keep a clean backlink profile.

• Not having a proper link documentation sheet
• Not auditing your links properly
• Adding duplicate domains in your disavow file
• Adding and removing the same domains in your disavow file

• Website Documentation Video
• GSC Disavow Tool
• Ahrefs
• Moz
• Open link Profiler
• Majestic
• Domain Extraction Tool

Extracting Domains Formula

=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"http\:\/\/|https\:\/\/|\/.*|\?.*|\#.*","")

Conditional Formatting Formula

=COUNTIF(A:B,A2)>1

Adding “:domain” formula

=CONCATENATE("domain:", A2)