The pattern in those is that the link URL itself MOSTLY looks legit…maybe it’ll look like a forum page, or a tag archive page, or a WordPress plugin URL or upload. This list is nearly 5000 domains strong, and a HUGE percentage of these are domains that appeared on my radar just in the past couple of months, with a couple of clients under heavy attack. Some are just ultra weak spam sites, but most are negative SEO…designed to get penalized, and enough links from these and their hope is that you either get a penalty, or (more likely) Google’s trust in your site and your other backlinks decreases–hurting your rankings across the board. These are sites that didn’t fit in any other bucket. Google SERPs links file – 226 domains – last updated 25 July 2022.If you’re seeing a ton of Google TLDs at the top, you’re paying DA50-DA70 money for DA20 links. The domains in this list are ones you should disavow, as they have virtually no real backlinks being counted by Google but if you’re using paid link building, check out the domains linking to some of your more recent link acquisitions using Moz Link Explorer.
These are mostly spammy paid-link sites meant to boost rankings of the sites they link to however, Google clearly is NOT counting these links. Somewhere, there are a bunch of pages with links to Google SERPs URLs, generally the search was for the name of the website or the domain name itself. These are sites that have built nearly their entire backlink profile on links from Google search results pages.
And if there’s any doubt in your mind that Google isn’t quite on top of their game in spotting spammy links, check out the #1 winner AND the #1 loser from SEMrush’s chart on the November 2021 Google Update, in this Search Engine Land article.įeel free to use the disavow lists below for your own website. Now, while Google claims that they’re able to spot and ignore most spammy links, the reality is that there ARE still algorithmic penalties out there, and that a whole bunch of this negative SEO person’s stuff is missed by Google, and is actually counting against the victims’ websites. But…if you feed those into most backlink analysis tools, they’ll most fly under the radar, as they’ll come back as either a 404, 500, or the site will be dead entirely (in any case, the link analysis tool will think that the link is gone).
So, you need to download the backlinks from Google Search Console, and work off of those. Note that most negative SEO links are NOT going to be spotted by external tools, as they’re cloaked so that only Googlebot can see them. Through work I’ve done for a number of clients, I’ve run across negative SEO attacks many times.