Blacklist/Hide Spam Links
Tom Phillips
Ability to blacklist spam sites, site wide on Ahrefs. (similar to Disavow list feature)
E.g:
sitedownrightnow. com
keyword-suggest-tool. com
emutop. net
linkddl. com
Similar to the Disavow for your own site, would be great to remove these types of links for ALL sites, within Ahrefs.
These sites show up over and over in the backlinks report, and are not indexed, and provide no value. This creates extra work for staff and inaccurate results at a glance in the SERP analysis and Backlink reports.
Please can we have a section where we can enter in root domains to hide them site wide on Ahrefs!
Thank you
Lord of SEO
I actually don't want to hide them, the issue they have is they have no way of knowing what is a spam node. This would mean a recalculation of every domain. They also add DR to redirected spam exploited nodes. I wouldn't hold your breath this will be here in 2030
Lord of SEO
Lord of SEO here again, years later and @ahrefs and Tim is sat on his arse doing nothing, yercum.com is pissing me off, ahrefs algorithm to filter these junk sites out doesn't exist.
Vikash Kumar
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Claire Beutel
Agreed - the repeated appearance of spam sites in the backlinks reports is a big issue. These spammy domains tend to clutter the results, provide no meaningful value, and require unnecessary manual work to filter out. This not only complicates the workflow for SEOs but also hinders the accuracy of SERP analysis and backlink reports.
To implement this feature, I would like to suggest two potential solutions:
- Ability to Create a Blacklist:
AHREFs could introduce a user-friendly interface that allows users to create a blacklist of domains they wish to exclude from reports.
Users could simply add spammy domains to their blacklist, ensuring that these domains are automatically filtered out from future reports.
- Manual Domain Exclusion:
Another option is to incorporate a feature that enables users to manually input a list of domains they want to exclude.
This manual exclusion could be enhanced further by allowing users to save these lists for future use, providing convenience and efficiency.
By implementing these solutions, AHREFs would empower its users to have more control over their data and significantly enhance the overall user experience. It would not only make your platform more user-friendly but also strengthen its position as an indispensable tool for SEO professionals.
I genuinely believe that these additions would be warmly welcomed by the AHREFs community and contribute to the continued success of your platform.
Steven Wishaw
This is badly needed, almost every domain has the same crap sites linking to it like:
Even better if there was a master crap list that we could then choose to apply.
Steven Wishaw
Haha go spam somewhere else
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Rob Leslie
Even better would be if Ahrefs could get better at identifying backlink quality. DR, at least in its current incarnation, doesn't cut it. Number of backlinks is generally useless because most of them are worthless. I have to hunt through to find the backlinks that are actually valuable to me.
Andrew O'Connor
Yes, please! This would save me so much time. The 'New Links' filter is very frustrating, because the same 50 - 100 spam sites show up at the top of every report. I'm constantly sifting through it trying to find actual new links. If we could create a blacklist to exclude certain domains from this report it would be huge.
Andrew O'Connor
A quick follow-up here to say that any level of this feature would be fantastic - whether it's simply copy/pasting a list of domains manually into an 'exclude domains' filter, having a saved 'blacklist' that automatically applies to any link report or even a universal blacklist the excludes the domains from every type of report on my account.
One of the latter two would be ideal, but there is so much noise in reports for larger sites (especially in certain spaces that are spam/aggregator heavy) that some form of blacklist is becoming a must-have feature for people who are doing daily work in Ahrefs. This isn’t a matter of a small number of common offender spam sites, but hundreds of sites in some spaces that are constantly getting picked up in ‘New Links’ for every major site.
I'll take whatever feature you can give here – I beg you!
James Thurlow
Andrew O'Connor: agreed, feels like searching for needles in a haystack to find legit links
Andrew Ivaschenko
I wanted to create the same initiative but found this one
so, 100% agree with you
James Rice
I would also love to see this feature included – plus I think backlinks/domains in the disavow file should not shows in the backlinks/domains metrics in the dashboard.
as
Thank you for this suggestion. So tired from trying to find my way through all the clutter showing on the ref page. Totally needed.
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