Google's Official List of Forbidden Link Schemes

Learn more about “Google’s official list of forbidden link schemes”.

If you find out that you’re having some links in your link profile that end up being guilty of link schemes, worry not as it’s normal to have only a few, not most of the links falling into the link schemes.

In order for Google to regard you as an authority blogger, you must do away with those toxic links that fall in the link schemes.

As said earlier, there are great alternatives to building high-quality backlinks, but prior to implementing those, a link profile audit must be conducted first in order to ascertain your prevalent link state.

To leverage a few tools simultaneously in one place, SEMrush link Audit would be a tremendous option.

Another excellent tool for comporting your backlink audit is Majestic.

Ahrefs and Moz’s Open Site Explorer (The previously-used tool) are equally worth trying out.

Once you’re done comporting the backlink audit, ensure to disavow all toxic links detected. That will enable you to cleanse your link profile, which will eventually impress Google to the core and boost your Domain Authority (DA).