Only one version of your site should load.
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https://domain.com loads for my website. However, some links are pointed at the http version. Is it enough to disavow them only on the https://domain.com version (because this is the one to which the http version redirects)?
I have come to this conclusion as well, extensive testing in progress.
Hover over the link (404 or redirected URL) and click the magnifying glass next to the "last crawled" date. That will pull up the inspection panel for that URL and will give you the source (spam) URL. That's what I'm disavowing and recrawling. Obviously, you will have your own URLs worked in there for legit redirects, which you will ignore and not disavow.
Got ya, I didn't realize you were pulling them manually.
Any idea how it compares to LRT?
Wondering the same thing.
I get the same number in both reports. I think theoretically, "More sample links" is supposed to provide you with a bigger sampling while "Latest links" is just supposed to be the most recent. Not sure what kind of numbers would be needed in terms of links for that differentiation to kick in.
Hope this works, just FYI every single disavow source recommends waiting 48-72h (including LinkResearchTools, a full business built on disavows).
My day zero is April 1. So I'm 3 weeks out since starting.
The premier Disavow community on the internet says wait 48 hours for Google to properly process the file. I added 24 hours to be safe because I'm pushing them through some fairly dirty shit. Sometimes I wait 96 hours if I'm busy.
I'd like to submit evidence towards the troll argument - he's not so nice behind closed doors:
Excuse me. I am taking action. I expressed doubt and I went and tested it myself. Speaking of taking action, @CCarter What sites do you run? Were they hit? Let us know.
I'm starting to suspect he might be a troll, but it's such fine line, maybe he's just impatient.
My suspicion started when he made this comment:
$2-3+ million in salaries for a product/service that hasn't even launched yet. Maybe he's just really energetic and needs to step away from a while cause he's in too deep.
And we've all been down this road before - you can post results, screenshots, you can post video testimonials, and there simple will be people that DO NOT WANT to believe. They'll come up with every excuse in the book to put their head in the sand.
Right now even after Gary says "I shouldn't have said that" - there are people still saying what he said before "links don't matter" is the correct way. WHAT?
it's simply cognitive dissonance. They are so invested in "Google doesn't lie to us" that they'll put their heads in the sand as Google continues collapsing their traffic.
Here is my question - what's the alternative? It's either do something or do nothing.
How can you win at anything by doing nothing and standing still?
I didn't want to get into this nonsense, but here we go:
What does ChatGPT's latest crazy have to do with Google Algorithms? You're confusing 2 different things AGAIN.
Google has been implementing LLMs into their algo since 2017 - it says it right on the wikipedia page. Do you think it accelerated because of ChatGPT? Makes zero sense.
You are going to nuke your site if you don't wait for Google to process your disavow file. It's simple - if you are on a battle field do you let the horsemen go first or the infantry men? If you let the infantry men first won't they get ran over by the horsemen from behind when they go? You guys have to figure out the analogy there.
The reality is guys we are in the TRENCHES - there is no guidance from SEO gurus telling you to do this and that. This is what it's like to be on the front-lines of a serious battle.
Shit takes time and energy until we get traction, complaining and whining that there is no "perfect guide" that you are used to - who wrote those guides? SEO gurus. What are they telling you to do right now? "Do nothing".
Does someone telling you to "Do Nothing" sound like a person in the trenches or on the front-lines?
You can wait or you can jump into trench warfare, but the people that make real impacts in the world are always on the edge/trenches/front-lines and putting on work aka TAKING ACTION.
"Do nothing" is not taking action.
Just one quick note for you (and anyone else on this path)... I feel like my recovery is currently being limited by my internal anchors. So, I'm pushing hard to get that part of the project done as well to make sure I get the most out this push.
Your recovery attempt, fail or pass, doesn't reflect whether this strategy works. It's one site, one data point, and from what I remember you were spinning up content with low-cost labor and AI... which doesn't sound like it's on the level with most of the guys on here.