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How to remove bad link for my website ?

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A quick, practical summary that builds on the replies here (for example, ’s point about removing links at source and ’s note about disavow): treat link removal as a three-step process — audit, remove (outreach), then disavow only if necessary. Google’s official guidance is clear: try to get links removed at the source first, and use the Disavow tool only for large-scale or manual-action problems — it is an advanced, last-resort signal to Google, not a blunt removal tool. ()

How to audit (practical): export the Links report from Google Search Console and use at least one third-party crawler (Ahrefs / SEMrush / Majestic) to expand coverage; GSC’s Links view is useful but often a sample, so treat it as a starting point. Manually review suspicious domains for patterns (same IP range, thin content, spammy anchors) and log every webmaster outreach attempt — you’ll need that if you face a manual action or request a review. ()

If outreach fails, prepare a disavow file exactly as Google expects. Make a plain-text .txt (UTF-8 or 7-bit ASCII), one entry per line; prefix domains with domain:, use # for comments, and keep the file under Google’s limits. Example: 

# Disavow example
http://spam.example.com/stuff/comments.html
domain:shadyseo.com

Upload via the Disavow Links page in Search Console for the specific property (http/https properties need separate lists). ()

Important cautions and follow-up: disavow does not delete links from the web or from GSC reports — it tells Google to ignore them when assessing your site and can take weeks to show effect. Google Analytics shows referral traffic only and cannot be used to “remove” links; use GA to check whether a link actually brought users. Don’t disavow lightly — document everything, keep backups of old lists, and if you have a manual action follow Google’s recovery/review guidance after cleanup. ()

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Member Avatar for branding4you

what link on what webpage, need more information.

My first answer would be: You could remove the link inside the page by going onto the webserver downloading the file taking out the link, saving it and uploading it again

Member Avatar for HoverportMedia

I think I posted this before, but you could always use the mysterious Google Disavow Tool...

Member Avatar for Amol555

We can remove the bad links in our website by using Google Disavow tools.

Member Avatar for Anupam_3

YOu can remove all the links from, googlr analytics

Member Avatar for mayaestat

We can remove the badlinks from going to the destination of links and delete from there as well as from Google disavow tool.

Member Avatar for raj432

Google provide Disavow tool to remove bad links from our website. Using this tool you can remove bad links.

Member Avatar for pravienraj

we cant remove it so google provides disavow file to remove those bad and dead links

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