Ecommerce Marketing Tips

The long awaited Google Disavow Links Tool is now available. Matt Cutts announced the new Google Webmaster Tools features. If you’ve been notified of a manual spam action based on “unnatural links” pointing to your site, this tool can help you address the issue. If you haven’t gotten this notification, this tool generally isn’t something you need to worry about. Cutts said the goal with the launch is to keep the tool simple. To disavow links, all you have to do is upload a text file, with one URL per line (full domain or specific page), of links you want Google to ignore. These are the links pointing at your site that you’re telling Google that  these links are "Unnatural links or Irrelevant links" you don't trust. The format is straightforward. All you need is a plain text file with one URL per line. An excerpt of a valid file might look like the following: # Contacted owner of spamdomain1.com on 7/1/2012 to # ask for link removal but got no response