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Sorry, Another Backlink Question Post: How to Audit/Disavow Backlinks and Gather New Ones?
Posted by on August 26, 2025 at 6:41 pmI'm using SEMRush, at least the free trial to see if it's worth it. It says I have 727 referring domains, 2.8K backlinks and 7 outbound domains. I have a HIGH overall toxicity score. SEMRush ranks toxicity from 0 to 100, with 100 being the worst. I'm assuming I should ask google to disavow toxic referring sites, but what number should I target as being toxic? 65 and above? Even a lot of the technically not toxic referring sites seem kinda spammy to me, like "yktsk.top", which has a very low toxicity score. What should I be looking at when I disavow a backlink?
When it comes to gathering new links, I could really use some help here. Is the idea to publish a how-to or blog post and publish it to these blog sites that allow guest entries? I feel like Google is smart enough to know these sites are basically worthless, even if they have a high domain rank. I know enough not to go after the cheap services that offer lots of links for $25, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get quality backlinks. I guess another good question is how much is a quality backlink worth? My local chamber of commerce charges I think $150/year to have your site listed on their site.
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Ignore SEMrush “toxic backlinks” – their model/method is not related to anything google uses
Never disavow backlinks you didnt buy
Never disavow backlinks if you cannot write a reconsideration request. Given that nobody can write a reconsideration request anymore, there is no use or valude in disavowing.
> I feel like Google is smart enough
Google is a piece of software, even though people have been claiming significant capabilities with the use of LLMs. LLMs are not research tools – you can see how stupefying they are in AIO Mode and when you put factually incorrect information in front of them via SEO or AI SEO
>Google is not that smart – Gary Ylles (Googler)
>When it comes to gathering new links, I could really use some help here. Is the idea to publish a how-to or blog post and publish it to these blog sites that allow guest entries?
The idea is to get links from any pages that rank in google.; If the page ranks in google you can assume Google trust or likes or values or whatever you want to use.
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