One of my clients just got hit with negative SEO. Best/quickest way to recover?
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Hello all. It has been one of those days. Woke up this morning to find that one of my clients had dropped significantly for several keywords. I then checked a few sites (Mozcast, Search Engine Land, etc.) to see if there was some sort of update, but found nothing. I then did a little research on ahrefs, and found the problem: A BIG surge in backlinks over the last week, and some very suspect anchor text making up 6% of the total. Apparently my client has a competitor that isn't very with the progress we have been making.
This is new to me, so I am a bit unsure about the best way to attack this. I read a few articles that mentioned contacting the website owner and requesting that they are removed, but there are hundreds of them, and and they are coming from really spammy Russian sites. Do I submit all of them using the disavow tool? I would really appreciate input from anyone that has successfully recovered from a negative SEO attack.
Hello all. It has been one of those days. Woke up this morning to find that one of my clients had dropped significantly for several keywords. I then checked a few sites (Mozcast, Search Engine Land, etc.) to see if there was some sort of update, but found nothing. I then did a little research on ahrefs, and found the problem: A BIG surge in backlinks over the last week, and some very suspect anchor text making up 6% of the total. Apparently my client has a competitor that isn't very with the progress we have been making.
This is new to me, so I am a bit unsure about the best way to attack this. I read a few articles that mentioned contacting the website owner and requesting that they are removed, but there are hundreds of them, and and they are coming from really spammy Russian sites. Do I submit all of them using the disavow tool? I would really appreciate input from anyone that has successfully recovered from a negative SEO attack.