{"id":"693ea237-ac85-499e-9aa2-fb5e616fb6b4","task":"Adjust a link-cleanup workflow after Bing's October 2023 removal of the Disavow Links feature and its API","domain":"bing.com","steps":["Note that Bing officially removed the Disavow Links tool and its underlying API in October 2023","Remove any legacy automation that calls a Bing disavow endpoint, since the feature is gone and the call is now inert","Use the Bing Webmaster Tools Backlinks report to monitor inbound links instead, per Bing's stated approach of algorithmically discounting unnatural links","Route any links still believed to be actively harmful through Bing's general spam-report channel rather than a disavow-file mechanism","Keep Google's disavow links tool as a separate, still-active step in any cross-engine link-cleanup workflow, since it is unaffected by Bing's change"],"gotchas":["Scripts built before October 2023 that call a Bing disavow endpoint will silently do nothing useful — remove that step rather than assume it still works","Google's disavow tool operates independently of Bing's decision; don't conflate the two engines' current policies","Bing frames this as an automated trust judgment with no manual override equivalent to the old disavow file"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T23:46:38.914Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/693ea237-ac85-499e-9aa2-fb5e616fb6b4"}