A couple of weeks ago I polled you guys on the question of if you proactively disavow links or not. The question came up in that many are fearing the Penguin updates as well as manual link penalties and thus want to be good boys and girls by being proactive about this.

That being said, many are not a fan of proactively using the disavow link tool because it might end up resulting in a downgrade in ranking. Because if Google didn't devalue the links and you disavow them, then your rankings may drop if you use the tool. It is a now verus later decision.

So how about the results? We asked "Do You Proactively Disavow Links?"

• 47% said never have, never plan on it
• 39% said they have but only very rarely
• 14% said

There is a saying that Tim Mayer, formerly from Yahoo, brought to the SEO conferences that has been used for probably ten years now. He said, "don't bring a sword to a gun fight," when someone was talking about how some search results for very shady business areas were spamming but he was doing white hat SEO techniques and was getting no where.

Truth is, that is how it works. In most of the very shady business areas, like payday loans, some classifications of drugs, pornography - the SEO space is much more competitive and honestly ruthless. But Google is planning on changing the game there by focusing a bit more on making the search results for spammy queries, less spammy.

Matt Cutts said in his video at about 2 minutes and 30 seconds in about these

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Greetings, Mozfolk! My name is Zach, and I'm a technical writer here at SEOmoz.

We've consistently heard from you that Mozscape needs better documentation. I'm pleased to tell you: your requests have been granted! The Mozscape wiki just underwent a thorough update and review by developers, help teamsters, and testers. We incorporated your feedback from help tickets and forums to make Mozscape easier for new users to learn, and more functional for experienced users to reference.

Hopefully this documentation update helps you get the most value from Mozscape. If you haven't taken a look through our documentation yet, we hope it encourages you to see how Mozscape data can help your business grow.

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