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Has someone tried negative SEO on my site?

by petemcal
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Hi I occasionally monitor my site's link profile on open site explorer, magestic SEO and google webmaster tools.

Just recently there has been a massive unnatural rise in the amount of links. I have not built these nor have I signed up to any link services. I struggle to think where these links would have came from other than a competitor?




Thankfully there have been a few experiments on SEOmoz that have shown that negative SEO attacks are becoming less effective. However having said that they are a HUGE authority site.

Update:Having signed into Majestic SEO it was revealed that 682 links were created from 1 domain on August 4th. Very strange
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    You do blog comment links, don't you?
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    • Profile picture of the author petemcal
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      You do blog comment links, don't you?
      Yeah I do manual blog commenting.

      Could these links have been scraped and spam reposted or something?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by petemcal View Post

        Yeah I do manual blog commenting.

        Could these links have been scraped and spam reposted or something?
        There is your answer. You probably left a comment on a site that uses one of those recent comment plugins. A spider visited the site when your comment was one of the recent comments, so it looked like you had a link on every page. Next time the spider visits you won't be one of the recent comments and it will drop down to normal.

        If you look closer at those links, I bet they are mostly from one domain.
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          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          There is your answer. You probably left a comment on a site that uses one of those recent comment plugins. A spider visited the site when your comment was one of the recent comments, so it looked like you had a link on every page. Next time the spider visits you won't be one of the recent comments and it will drop down to normal.

          If you look closer at those links, I bet they are mostly from one domain.
          That's what I was going to post. That's probably happened at least once to most people that have ever built blog links.
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        • Profile picture of the author petemcal
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          There is your answer. You probably left a comment on a site that uses one of those recent comment plugins. A spider visited the site when your comment was one of the recent comments, so it looked like you had a link on every page. Next time the spider visits you won't be one of the recent comments and it will drop down to normal.

          If you look closer at those links, I bet they are mostly from one domain.
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          That's what I was going to post. That's probably happened at least once to most people that have ever built blog links.
          This is exactly what has happened. Thanks for your help guys!

          I wouldn't of figured this out otherwise
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    Originally Posted by petemcal View Post

    Thankfully there have been a few experiments on SEOmoz that have shown that negative SEO attacks are becoming less effective. However having said that they are a HUGE authority site.
    For an authority site like SEOmoz, they can do every bad linkbuilding technique in the book and Google will never ever EVER penalize them. However, if the average Joe who has an AdSense or Amazon site gets blasted by my 4.7 million XRumer profile links in under a week, I bet you I can get them off Google or I will pay you $1,000/mo via PayPal for the rest of my life.

    Negative SEO is real. I have removed competing sites from page 1 of Google. Twice. 4.7 million forum profiles in back to back weeks (total over 9 million links!) using XRumer is no joke. It just doesn't apply to big/authority sites because Google is cool like that.
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    • Profile picture of the author petemcal
      Originally Posted by Suir1980 View Post

      For an authority site like SEOmoz, they can do every bad linkbuilding technique in the book and Google will never ever EVER penalize them. However, if the average Joe who has an AdSense or Amazon site gets blasted by my 4.7 million XRumer profile links in under a week, I bet you I can get them off Google or I will pay you $1,000/mo via PayPal for the rest of my life.

      Negative SEO is real. I have removed competing sites from page 1 of Google. Twice. 4.7 million forum profiles in back to back weeks (total over 9 million links!) using XRumer is no joke. It just doesn't apply to big/authority sites because Google is cool like that.
      It's scary to think that this is possible. Looking at it from Google's point of view how do they stop it? I don't think they can. Because making sites immune to negative SEO basically makes sites immune to bad SEO practices in general.

      Tough one...
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        Originally Posted by petemcal View Post

        It's scary to think that this is possible. Looking at it from Google's point of view how do they stop it? I don't think they can. Because making sites immune to negative SEO basically makes sites immune to bad SEO practices in general.

        Tough one...
        Well I think they're going to rely more on smart webmasters.

        If you report the links right as they're being built or you notice them which is hopefully in the same day. I think you'll be good then and hopefully most of those links will just be discounted. One of the perks of webmaster tools I guess
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      • Profile picture of the author Oranges
        Originally Posted by petemcal View Post

        It's scary to think that this is possible. Looking at it from Google's point of view how do they stop it? I don't think they can. Because making sites immune to negative SEO basically makes sites immune to bad SEO practices in general.

        Tough one...
        Bing already launched their link disavow tool, Google must be working on that too. So Neg. SEO won't be around for too long.
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    No one have enough time to create back links of your site its your own backlinks.
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    Originally Posted by petemcal View Post


    Update:Having signed into Majestic SEO it was revealed that 682 links were created from 1 domain on August 4th. Very strange
    Was this from a sidebar or footer?
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      Originally Posted by MatthewWoodward View Post

      Was this from a sidebar or footer?
      I'm not sure the links are gone now, would it have made a difference or were you just curious?
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    a bit off topic but I didn't want to clutter the forum. Does anyone remember and can point out the thread where a couple of big dogs here were experimenting about blasting sites with bad links and seeing the effect? I tried searching but can't find it. It was a pretty big thread
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    • Profile picture of the author petemcal
      Originally Posted by ichl13 View Post

      a bit off topic but I didn't want to clutter the forum. Does anyone remember and can point out the thread where a couple of big dogs here were experimenting about blasting sites with bad links and seeing the effect? I tried searching but can't find it. It was a pretty big thread
      Sorry I didn't see that thread, hope you find your way back to it. If you do post a link up here I'd like to read it too!
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