(Entry was posted by Chase Reiner on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/21/2017).

When is a good time to start disavowing links after penguin hit?

We think a site has possibly hit by penguin, when is a good time to start disavowing links?

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Doc Sheldon: my brain... the best tool in my toolbox ;)
Alan Bleiweiss: Immediately upon identifying toxic links.
Chase Reiner: What do you guys use to identify toxic links?
Doc Sheldon: no reason whatsoever to wait on disavowing - the sooner, the better!
Dan Thies: We`ve got a pretty big blacklist and that helps, tools can help prioritize the list, but yeah... manual review and don`t wait.
Nerijus Kaziela: asap you realize you got hit
Alan Bleiweiss: I run them through Marie Hayne`s disavow blacklist checker. I then go through domains not identified in that report manually. You can also consider using a tool like Kerboo for that first pass work, which I also use from time to time.
Doc Sheldon: I have yet to see any tool do even a half-decent job of judging link quality. I visit every domain personally. Yeah, that makes it tough to do an audit of a site with links from 10K domains ;)

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