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If I get spammy backlinks removed is it still necessary to disavow?
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Now there is some conflicting beliefs here and I want to know what you think.
If I got a high spam website to remove my backlink, is a disavow through search console still necessary ?
Keep in mind if it helps even in the slightest to improve rankings im for it!
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You generally don't need to take any action on these types of links (you don't need to remove or disavow). Google can see they are just scraped duplicates or a real article and ignore them.
But let's say they were harmful bad links (maybe paid links or irrelevant placed sneakily by you - ie: a link to iphones from a page about dogs), then when you remove links it's always a good stop-gap to also disavow. Because Google might not immediately crawl the URLs with bad links right away, but the disavow they will in theory pick up on more quickly.
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all spam links must be disvow specially the root domain of the spam link.
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The situation is this. I was featured on a high quality website. Immediately 8 other high quality sites copied the exact article which linked to me.. Now I have these backlinks
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If that links have spam score above 70, then you don't need to disavow. Google is already considered as spam.
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Hello,
Disavow is no longer necessary - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-disavow-tool/289871/
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