How to remove toxic backlinks from semrush
- George Apostolov
- 05 Sep 2025
Guide
Head over to the Backlink Audit tool in the left sidebar.
Enter your website url and hit Start Audit.
Choose the root domain and start the audit.
This is a good marker to have, where if a link shows 60-100 it's toxic; if it's 45-59 it's potentially toxic.
Click on Delete after your toxic links and select To Remove.
Do it for all the toxic links and then you will find them under Remove tab above the report.
After that you can click on Send in the Send Email column to request link removal.
Edit your email to request link removal and hit the Send button.
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