: Why is Search Console "Links to your site" showing links from a site that no longer exists? I work in marketing and one of my clients had several domains for different campaigns they were

@Vandalay111

You need to Disavow the links by Google Disavow tool.

Google Disavow Backlinks

Basically, you need to download all those backlinks to a text file and then edit that text file to only keep links that you want to Disavow. Moreover, you can add the domain that you want to disavow but you will need to do that manually. The file has a certain format that is not too difficult. You can find the steps and example in the page shown above.

You need to upload this text file to Google Disavow Tool and then wait for Google to remove those links from its search. It may take its own time, usually a few months. For more details, please see their documentation that is pretty good.

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@Nimeshi995

This can take up to one year or even longer until those links will start to disappear. There might also be some 301 redirects alive. Google does not update this in the console for security reasons, given penaltys should disappear before those links disappear in the search console.

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