9/27/18
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Niall BrewsterNegative SEO and how to prevent it
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About 3 months ago I ran a moz report on my site and noticed that I had nearly 5,000 bad backlinks to my website which struck me as odd. They had all been created in the last year and a half. When I did some research on it I found out that rival companies are creating dodgy backlinks on competitors websites in order to get them penalised for negative SEO. I ran a check and reached out to some of my competitors and the same thing had been done to them.
I created a disavow list for all the backlinks and uploaded it to google. I ran a check there now with SEM Rush and another 300 bad backlinks have been created in the last couple months.
Is there something I can do to prevent this or is there a way to find out where they are coming from and who's doing it? Or do I just have to keep checking and sending disavow files to Google.
Cheers in advance
Niall
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9/27/18
barryhunterIs there something I can do to prevent this
You can't 'control' what site(s) link to you.
or is there a way to find out where they are coming from and who's doing it?
Not really, unless can find from some of the webmasters of the target sites, who asked them to add the link.
Or do I just have to keep checking and sending disavow files to Google.
Well in general dont need to do that.
Most of the time Google discounts the spammy links on its own.
'Negative SEO' as you call it rarely actually works.
Not saying it never works, but thin more webmasters are 'scared' of it, when its not actually affecting them.
These 'backlink checker' websites, typically exaggerate the issue, as they want to peddle their services!
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