Can Disavow tool remove the links in WMT or not?

[sekarsundaram]

Disavow tool can remove completely your site links from other sites.

For example:
http://www.spamdomain2.com/contentA.html

In the above link whether Google won't consider this link as a backlink of my website or they will remove this link permanently from my google webmaster tools after I submitted for Disavow.

[edited by: aakk9999 at 3:27 pm (utc) on Nov 9, 2013]
[edit reason] unlinked example [/edit]

[n00b1]

No, it essentially means the link is treated as nofollow (according to Google). It will not disappear from WMT as nofollow links are also listed there.

[jimbeetle]

Yep, what n00b1 said. See John Mueller's Google hangout of October 21st [youtube.com].

Hat tip Marie Haynes [webmasterworld.com].

[sekarsundaram]

Thanks for your reply...

Then what's the proof whether its considered by Google as a no follow or else shall I get any email from Google after Disavow ed through Google Webmaster Tool?

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, sekarsundaram!


as far as i know, there is no proof of nofollow.
you should note that the "nofollow" won't be effective until some time after googlebot crawls a url and sees the disavow of that url or domain.
therefore if googlebot has NOT crawled a url (check your server access log files) linking to your site since it's been disavowed, it is still a "followed" link.

[sekarsundaram]

@ Phranque

Thanks for your reply.