Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on Tuesday at the 16:44 mark that in some cases, disavowing or cleaning up bad links to your site may help Google’s algorithm trust other links to your site. Let me quote what the question was and how John responded, plus you can watch it yourself below.

Marie Haynes asked John Mueller:

John Mueller responded:

Here you see John said “our algorithms when they look at it and they see oh there’s a bunch of really bad links here, then maybe they’ll be a bit more cautious with regards to links in general from the website.”

The next question from Marie was:

John responded:

Here is the video embed at the start of the question:

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