If you’ve ever created a disclaimer file, chances are you’ve come across multiple blogspot.com links, as well as links from the different international versions of Blogspot, each hosted on its own country-specific TLD. And it can be a chore to disown them all.
Marie Haynes shared an incredibly useful tip for those who want to disown all Blogspot URLs. Simply disavow the entire Blogspot.com domain using:
domain: blogspot.com
This will disavow everything including all TLDs such as blogspot.ca and blogspot.co.uk. And yes, it works for all subdomains on all blogspot urls.
Disavowing all links from Blogspot means that it will also speed up the processing of the disavow file, which is important for many people, especially those penalized by Google.
Want to disavow all Blogspot links? Just add “domain: http://t.co/WIo6LUuG5P”. No need to disallow all TLDs. pic.twitter.com/BZDJDxsFcG
– Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) July 29, 2015
Someone asked Google Trends analyst Zineb Ait Bahajji to confirm that it was working, and she said yes, because this is the canonical domain.
@RaphSEO yes … car the canonical version is .com
– Zineb Ait (@Missiz_Z) July 30, 2015
For those who do not master French, she says “Yes… because the canonical version is .com”.
She also says that if any links appear in Google Search Console, you should always disavow the different versions individually.
@RaphSEO Exact!
– Zineb Ait (@Missiz_Z) July 30, 2015
Haynes also pointed out that sometimes there are legitimate links from blogspot URLs. But when someone uses blogspot to spam links, it may be easier to disavow the entire domain rather than having to disavow individually subdomain by subdomain.
@Skitzzo If you’ve been spamming your site through blogspot microsites or paid links and can’t keep up with all the bad links.
– Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) July 29, 2015
So, if you are having an issue with a lot of low quality or spam links coming from Blogspot, it will make the disallowance process much easier.
Jennifer Slegg is a longtime speaker and search engine marketing expert, working in the industry for almost 20 years. When not sitting at her desk writing and working, she can be found having latte at her local Starbucks or planning her next trip to Disneyland. She is a regular speaker at Pubcon, SMX, State of Search, Brighton SEO and more, and has been present at conferences for over a decade.
