I ran our website through SEMrush to see if there were any areas for improvement and mostly because I was bored. I had been told our SEO was in good shape, but the audit suggests otherwise, so now i have a shit load of things to fix. Around a quarter of the backlinks were flagged as toxic, and they are 100% from link-selling/backlink networks. I work in marketing, but SEO is usually handled by our web developer. It’s pretty likely these backlinks were either purchased or recommended by that web guy, since my boss knows nothing about SEO. Basically, my question is would disavowing all 46 of these backlinks improve or potentially harm our SEO performance? submitted by /u/G_I_L_L_E_T_T [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/6E5exfr
Thanks to u/rustybrick for sharing/creating this story: Google has finally fixed the link report within Google Search Console. It was broken for the past few weeks and all Google did back then was a temporary "fix" to revert the data to a previous state. But now that report is showing new, normal link data. In mid March, the Google Search Console link report broke and many sites saw all their links disappear, whereas others saw a huge drop in links being reported. Google fixed that by just reverting the report to an earlier state. Now, I see the data is showing new links - before it was showing me about 135,000 external links, now I am seeing 165,000. So it was updated some time this morning. submitted by /u/WebLinkr [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/x87bY2F