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How to Create a Disavow File

Toxic links from your backlink tool come as messy URLs, and one formatting mistake means Google ignores the file. Paste them and get an upload-ready disavow file in Google’s exact format.

  • 100% free, no limits
  • No sign-up
  • Your data never leaves your browser
  • Results in under a second

Free tool Paste your list β€” the disavow file builder does the rest

The example below is already loaded, so you can see exactly what you get. Replace it with your own list and the result updates as you type.

🚫 Doing the whole job? Build a disavow file β†’ every fix for it, ticked and in the right order

Got a bigger job? The full Notepad runs the same engine on lists of any size β€” chain this with dedupe, sort and filter, undo any step, and save the whole routine as a recipe for next time.

Example Disavow file builder: before and after

Before
https://spam.example.com/page-1
http://www.bad-links.net/x
domain:bad-links.net
After
domain:bad-links.net
domain:spam.example.com

Settings used: Add a dated comment line at the top: off

How it works What the disavow file builder does

Turns a list of backlink URLs or domains into a Google disavow file: one domain: line per site (or individual URLs), deduplicated and sorted, with a dated header.

Paste the spammy backlinks from your backlink tool (full URLs, bare domains or existing domain: lines) and get a file in the format Google’s disavow tool expects. By default each site becomes one domain: line, which covers every link from it; choose individual URLs if you only want to disavow specific pages.

Entries are lowercased, stripped of www., deduplicated and sorted, and a dated comment line is added at the top so you can tell versions apart. Save the result as a UTF-8 .txt file before uploading.

3 steps How to use the disavow file builder

  1. Paste your list into the box above β€” one item per line. Keyword exports, crawl exports and spreadsheet columns all work.
  2. Check the settings and adjust them to your job β€” the result updates as you type.
  3. Copy the result and paste it wherever it needs to go. Nothing is uploaded, so client and confidential data stay on your machine.

Use it to When to use the disavow file builder

  • Turn an export of toxic links into an upload-ready disavow file
  • Merge an old disavow file with newly found spam domains without duplicates
  • Convert URL-level entries to domain-level after a negative SEO attack

FAQ Disavow file builder questions

Is Build a Disavow File free to use?

Yes. Build a Disavow File runs entirely in your browser, on this page and in the full Notepad, with no sign-up, no limits, and nothing sent to a server.

Should I disavow links at all?

Only in clear cases, such as a manual action or a large attack of paid or spam links. Google ignores most low-quality links on its own.

Does uploading a new file add to the old one?

No, it replaces it. Paste your previous file together with the new links so nothing drops out.

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Stop fixing lists by hand

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