Will Negative SEO Rise Up?

You make a vary valid point. I suspect that if google does see an increase in this type of activity happening (which they will) then they will revise it again by devaluing those links. If not, this is a horrible time for ScrapeJet to have just been released. Between that and/or scrapebox with a healthy AA list from Fiverr, it wouldn't take much to kill a site.

See this is exactly why I think these "penalties" wont be around too long.

Soon Google will realize the websites that actually do provide value are getting sent into the abyss by negative SEO campaigns

Therefore ruined their "quality user experience"

Negative SEO is very much a real thing now. Also, it is our moral obligation to make full use of it. The only way to make big G take notice of how ludicrous their new policy is is to exploit it, and exploit it in a big way.

Remember, nothing in big G's terms says "don't spam your competitors into oblivion with our help." Big G is in charge of our moral system, and if big G doesn't say not to then that's as good as a green light.

Yeah, should at least be interesting to see how this plays out. I've never really believed fully in negative SEO. If it were real, it'd be far too easy to destroy your competition with awful links.

Negative SEO will not work guys.

There is no way that you can take down a site with bad backlinks alone.

The absolute worse that would happen is that you might knock a sites rankings around for a short period of time.

Even that seems unlikely.

Google's algorithm is a very smart system and there would definitely be measures in place to prevent people using negative SEO to destroy websites.

I also do not believe that any links you may have in the recently destroyed BMR network will cause a penalization.

You may see your rankings drop if you were prodominantly relying on BMR for your rankings, but I don't believe you will see any sort of penalization for having your links in the network.

You're right, it would be absolute mayhem if you could bring a site down with negative SEO but I would be extremely gobsmacked if it was possible.

I'm seeing case studies pop up on this and honestly I'm starting to expect the worst.

Obviously you can lose rankings by losing the links you had in the network but it's kind of starting to look like there's a bigger issue there. Sites with stagnant competition falling much further than they were before the network links.

Sites with less than 10% of its link portfolio from these sources really taking a hit. It could just be a shuffle around but it's not looking good.

Get ready to see fiverr gigs. 'I will destroy your competitions rankings for $5'

And since crappy backlink sources are so much easier than quality ones it's actually going to be easier to damage your competition rather than build your own quality.

I'd like to think Google is aware of what this would do to the SERPS but who's to say they'd even care. If people are happy to accept some of the junk content being considered an 'authoity' then they can continue to treat webmasters with something useful to contribute to a niche like trash.

It's a brave new day for DDoS attacks! DDoS using Google! No firewalls, no traceability, no laws apply! Open season on everyone!