Google’s John Mueller stated the order of the URLs or websites you checklist in your disavow hyperlink file doesn’t matter. He added that the file isn’t processed in actual time, it’s crawled after which taken under consideration as Google crawls the online.
John stated this on Bluesky:
The order within the disavow file does not matter. We do not course of the file per-se (it isn’t a direct filter of “the index”), we take it under consideration once we recrawl different websites naturally.
The order within the disavow file does not matter. We do not course of the file per-se (it isn’t a direct filter of “the index”), we take it under consideration once we recrawl different websites naturally.
— John Mueller (@johnmu.com) July 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
So when you do not belief this website and also you add it to your disavow file, having or not it’s the primary URL in that file versus the final URL in that file, doesn’t matter.
As a reminder, John Mueller of Google typically says that disavowing hyperlinks is a waste of time. Heck, like Bing, Google could take away the disavow software in some unspecified time in the future. The truth is, Google stated the disavow instruments hurts many extra websites than it helps and has doubled down on not utilizing it.
That being stated, the order does not matter.
Discussion board dialogue at Bluesky.
