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Google\u2019s John Mueller casually mentioned the other day that it\u2019s possible to disavow entire top level domains (TLDs) like .xyz which can come in handy if spammers are consistently using a specific TLD and there are no good sites that link from it. Mueller called it a big hammer and cautioned about using it.<\/p>
Someone on Bluesky asked a question about a client that was receiving a lot of strange links from the .XYZ domain and Google\u2019s Mueller encouraged the person to go ahead and upload a disavow file if it makes them feel better about the situation. But he also mentioned that the entire .XYZ TLD can be disavowed, too.<\/p>
Mueller wrote:<\/em><\/p> \u201cIf you notice that the bulk of the problems are from a few TLDs, you can also disavow the whole TLD. The disavow file is a tool, not a religion :-). Most sites don\u2019t need it, but that\u2019s not all sites.\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> The person who asked the original question asked Mueller how to format that kind of full-TLD banning.<\/p> Mueller responded:<\/em><\/p> \u201cIt\u2019s the domain: directive, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s explicitly called out for the whole TLD in the documentation (it\u2019s quite a big hammer :-)). It\u2019s been possible since the start, but I imagine the \u201cannoying\u201d TLDs change over the years. Some TLDs are very cheap, and have \u201cfriendly\u201d TOSs\u2026\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> This apparently isn\u2019t something that\u2019s well known and Glenn Gabe responded to note that he didn\u2019t believe it was in Google\u2019s documentation.<\/p> Mueller essentially confirmed that it\u2019s not a documented capability because it\u2019s quite powerful.<\/p> He explained:<\/em><\/p> \u201cGiven how big of a hammer it is, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s something we should really suggest in the docs. I\u2019m sure all TLDs have some good sites. (It has come up a few times\u201d\u2026)<\/p> <\/blockquote> Someone else asked if that\u2019s really an option and Mueller responded:<\/p> \u201cYes. If you\u2019re sure that it\u2019s what you want to do, you can use \u201cdomain:abc\u201d in the disavow file. Keep in mind that you can\u2019t carve out specific domains if you like some, but if you find the TLD is almost only annoying spammers, it\u2019ll save you time.\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> The ability to disavow entire TLDs is a huge capability that has been largely unknown until now. The question now is, will this set off a large number of TLD disavows?<\/p> <\/div> News,SEO#Google #Disavow #Entire #TLDs #.XYZ #Domain #Directive #sejournal #martinibuster1773048477<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google\u2019s John Mueller casually mentioned the other day that it\u2019s possible to disavow entire top level domains (TLDs) like .xyz which can come in handy if spammers are consistently using a specific TLD and there are no good sites that link from it. Mueller called it a big hammer and cautioned about using it. .XYZ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[16643,16644,15746,10882,16641,75,415,80,16642],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessibility","tag-xyz","tag-directive","tag-disavow","tag-domain","tag-entire","tag-google","tag-martinibuster","tag-sejournal","tag-tlds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Newly Revealed Disavow File Capabilities<\/h2>