How to tell if disavow tool has been used

[Hlforr]

Is there any way to tell if an SEO company has used the disavow tool? I have a client who previously employed an SEO company to clean up bad links and use the Google disavow tool but she is unsure if this has been done and is no longer in touch with the company concerned.

[david_thomas]

Once Google disavow your submitted links, you will get mail from Google.
E.g: [Webmaster Tools] http://www.abc.com/: Disavowed links updated.

[Hlforr]

Once Google disavow your submitted links, you will get mail from Google.
E.g: [Webmaster Tools] http://www.abc.com/: Disavowed links updated.

Thanks that's exactly the info I was looking for. No message like this was ever sent to my client so I suspect that Google was never asked to disavow the links.
Thank you for the quick reply.

[Mikl]

Once Google disavow your submitted links, you will get mail from Google.

David, are you sure about that? I've seen cases where the disavow tools was successful, but no such message was ever received from Google.

I think the more likely answer is that you'll simply see the disavowed links disappearing from GWT. At least, that's what happened in the cases I know about. If you know something different, by all means put me right.

Mike

[david_thomas]

David, are you sure about that? I've seen cases where the disavow tools was successful, but no such message was ever received from Google.

I think the more likely answer is that you'll simply see the disavowed links disappearing from GWT. At least, that's what happened in the cases I know about. If you know something different, by all means put me right.

Mike

Mike, Yes, I'm sure, Beacuse I got the reply from Google last week, for your confirmation, I have attached my email snapshot here.




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[Mikl]

David,

Thanks for that. Clearly, the reason you were able to get that message was that Google had an email address for you, and knew that you were responsible for the site. That probably wasn't the case with the cases I saw.

Mike

[david_thomas]

David,

Thanks for that. Clearly, the reason you were able to get that message was that Google had an email address for you, and knew that you were responsible for the site. That probably wasn't the case with the cases I saw.

Mike

But still some unwanted links are there in GWT, confused why these links are still there.

[Hlforr]

My client hasn't received an email confirming that the disavow tool has been used by her previous SEO man. We are presuming it hasn't but would there be a problem in submitting another if one has already gone? The site is continuing to drop out of the sky.

Also I am finding it difficult to get a really accurate backlink tool which will give me a list of the active backlinks. Google webmasters doesn't seem to be too accurate and I've tried a few online with widely varying results. Can anyone recommend a trustworthy one (cheap or free would be good).

Thanks

[TechnoBear]

Also I am finding it difficult to get a really accurate backlink tool which will give me a list of the active backlinks. Google webmasters doesn't seem to be too accurate and I've tried a few online with widely varying results. Can anyone recommend a trustworthy one (cheap or free would be good).

You can find any number of threads here covering that topic. For example:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...k-link-checker
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...-link-analysis
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...-backlink-data

[Mikl]

I am finding it difficult to get a really accurate backlink tool which will give me a list of the active backlinks.

There is no completely accurate backlink tool, and probably never will be. In order to identify every possible backlink, the tool would have to crawl the entire world wide web. Even Google doesn't do that.

Mike

[david_thomas]

There is no completely accurate backlink tool, and probably never will be. In order to identify every possible backlink, the tool would have to crawl the entire world wide web. Even Google doesn't do that.

Mike

Agree with you Mike, there is no such tool which gives you accurate result.

[seopoint]

As far as I know, Google may or may not honor your disavow request. That one thing.
Another thing is that the SEO service your friend hired could have been lazy and may have used to tool left and right, without providing any proof to Google that they had tried to remove links before disavowing them (this is what you are supposed to do).
If you're looking for a decent backlink analysis tool, I'd recommend SEO Spyglass, that's the one I'm using. It lets you go into real detail when analyzing links.