{"id":9274,"date":"2026-01-27T05:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:54:05","slug":"removing-bad-backlinks-helped-me-to-increase-my-site-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/removing-bad-backlinks-helped-me-to-increase-my-site-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Bad Backlinks Helped Me to Increase My Site Rank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does removing bad and toxic backlinks really helps to increase website ranking in Google and Bing &#8211; here is my personal experience <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently I contacted a few low quality external website and requested to <strong>remove backlinks<\/strong> to my site. After 6 months I checked that without adding any new relevant <strong>backlink<\/strong> to my website, the site&#8217;s ranking started to increase in Google and Bing search results. My site rank boosted from page three to page two for major keywords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yes, <strong>removing bad\/toxic backlinks has directly improved rankings<\/strong> for sites hit by penalties or stuck in a plateau. This usually happens after a Google algorithm update targets manipulative link patterns. When we disavow or remove large volumes of spammy, irrelevant, or paid links, we often see a recovery in rankings for the affected keywords over the following weeks as the penalty lifts. More commonly, it prevents future declines rather than causing an immediate spike. <\/p><div class='code-block code-block-9' style='margin: 8px auto 8px 0; text-align: left; display: block; clear: both;'>\n<!-- OnlHeaderResponsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5339207343588395\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9406207027\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proactively cleaning a backlink profile removes a significant risk factor. It makes the site&#8217;s link profile look more natural and trustworthy to Google&#8217;s algorithms and also to Bing. This solid foundation is crucial for supporting the positive impact of your other SEO efforts, like content creation, without being undermined by bad links. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So always remove spammy, irrelevant, and bad backlinks pointing to your site. Better to contact the site owners to remove it. Make sure you are pruning low-quality and toxic links that drag your website down in ranking. Many reddit users have also chimed that they&#8217;ve felt a noticeable boost after cleaning backlinks. Make sure you&#8217;re removeing off-topic backlinks too. If you are a mommy blog and write about home, lifestyle, kids, and family life and your blog has backlinks from crypto or casino sites then those are off-topic links that dilute your link profile and confuses the search engines. Removing them manually or through Google disavow tool will certainly help in slight boost in your website&#8217;s rank.<\/p>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does removing bad and toxic backlinks really helps to increase website ranking in Google and Bing &#8211; here is my personal experience Recently I contacted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[566,202,231,175,237,160,163,509,166,463],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","tag-ahrefs","tag-ai","tag-backlinks","tag-bing","tag-blogger","tag-blogging","tag-google","tag-semrush","tag-seo","tag-webmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}