: Google Nofollow, Disavow and Link Removal Requests I am the owner of a reviews website and I am constantly getting requests from people asking me to remove links to their sites or they will

@Heady270

Google is asking penalized webmasters to identify the spammy links to their site and disavow those links. If enough other webmasters identify your site as a source of link spam, then it might be reasonable for Google to see that as a quality issue with your site.

However, Google engineer Uli Lutz said when asked if using the disavow tool would hurt other sites:


Do not worry about damaging other people, that does not happen


Search Engine Land ran a poll about whether webmasters were concerned about being hurt by other sites disavowing their links:


15% fear that disavows could hurt
27% concerned but not fearful
53% of respondents couldn't care less about disavows


The article itself concludes that you should not be worried about disavows hurting your site.

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@Megan663

Disavow links may penalize the site that was disavowed. If your link is disavowed, then it will create a negative impact on Google. If people send a request to Google to disavow your link for their business or product keyword, Google won't suddenly disavow it, Google will check whether disavowing your website link is necessary or not. If needed it will disavow your link otherwise it will hurt the website that send the request.
Yeah! nofollowattribute guarantee that the link is not followed and not counted for search engine ranking.


No all the people's know about nofollow maybe problem is not because of nofollow but because of your review about their business or product. They may thing that your reviews about their business or product might affect their revenue. ;-)

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