- [Instructor] Getting backlinks to your website
can be great and it can help you to increase
your websites and your individual web page's authority.
Which is great for search engine optimization.
However, you want to make sure that the backlinks
that you do get to your website are from
high authority websites or at least websites
that are not spammy and websites that are
in the same vertical or niche that your website is in.
If you are not getting your backlinks
from the correct websites,
then this can actually have an opposite effect
to your overall search engine optimization.
So, you may have, for example, purchased some backlinks
maybe for your website not knowing
that it would harm your site.
Or maybe there's just a load
of sites that you notice are pointing back
to your website that are low authority or spammy.
And you could actually get penalized
in the search engines for this.
So, within this Google search console
you can actually submit a list of websites
that you want to disavow.
And this is where you do that.
So you can access this section
of your Google search console,
access this particular URL.
And as long as you're signed in
you can select your property that you would like to
disallow these particular websites.
And then you can upload the disallow list
and you can upload a text file, .TXT.
With links or domains to disavow in the required format.
So, if you click on this link
it will show you the format that it needs to be in.
And as long as you present it in that way
then you can upload that list and get rid
of any links that are playing to your site that are spammy
or that don't represent your website well.