Nuking a whole link source vs partial disavow

Nuking a whole link source vs partial disavow

The myth: after recovering from a penalty, disavow aggressively — better to over-remove than miss one bad link.

Reality: over-disavowing has a real cost that the "better safe" crowd ignores — you permanently discount links you may have needed, and reconsideration reviewers can see a file that nuked legitimate domains as a sign of panic, not cleanup.

— Aggressive full nuke: fast, but you can't easily recover the equity once Google re-processes the file.
— Targeted partial: more work, keeps borderline-legit links that might be load-bearing.

Actually, in manual-action recovery, precision reads as competence; carpet-bombing reads as guesswork.

Reality check: cut the clearly-bad, keep the maybe-good.