ask yoast: disavow backlinks from shady sites? • yoast

there will always be people turning to the dark side, employing less than savory techniques for their own gain.   it's called SEO.   Now, you should not worry about being the target of SEO attack like that the moment you notice in your rankings.   Google's disavow links tool allows you to ask Google not to take certain links into account when assessing your site.   Or will Google's algorithm realize this is SEO effort and ignore them...   But, then you can also just do nothing because, yes, Google will figure out lot of this by and say, Hey, these domains are really, really shady and we should not allow these links to do anything.   In the series Ask Yoast, we SEO questions from our readers.   SEO dilemma you ca not find the answer to.   Note you may want to check our blog and knowledge base first, the answer to your question could already be out there.   For urgent questions, for example about Yoast SEO plugin not working, please contact us through our support page..   Read more