Google: When Disavowing A Link, All Associations Are Removed

Oct 21, 2019 - 7:33 am 0 by

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When you disavow a link, any and all associations with that link to your page are removed. I kind of thought that was obvious, but John did field a question related to it the other day. He confirmed the associations with the link are removed when you disavow.

This is a question from Twitter:

Short and sweet response but that is how disavowing links works.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Note: This story was pre-written before the Simchat Torah holiday. I am currently offline for the holiday and unable to respond to comments on this site, social, media or other platforms.

 

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