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Stopping Negative SEO

by moneyglue
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Hi All


Any suggestions how to stop negative SEO.


One of my money sites is being spammed with 'naughty' words as anchor texts.


Is their a way to block these using cloudfare or wordpress plugins...or do I just keep going through and disavowing all these links


Cheers
#negative #seo #stopping
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Wordpress has nothing to do with external links.

    Disavow is a shot in the dark.
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    • Profile picture of the author moneyglue
      Thanks Yukon. Was hoping by blocking traffic from certain countries it may help? Most of these links are coming from Russia
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by moneyglue View Post

        Thanks Yukon. Was hoping by blocking traffic from certain countries it may help? Most of these links are coming from Russia
        Blocking traffic does not block links.
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  • Profile picture of the author HuiBang
    You can use disavow link
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  • Profile picture of the author Slate ORM
    Here is what is suggested deep in an article on Search Engine Journal:

    Data Organization: Organize all the link data you have collected from Google Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, Majestic SEO, and Open Site Explorer then copy/paste the data from each link source into relevant sheets. Make sure you remove the duplicates from the sheet by going to the Data tab and selecting “Remove Duplicates”, so you have only one URL link.

    Identifying Bad Links: When there’s a relatively huge list of backlinks, it gets time-consuming to go through each one of them for the bad links identification purpose. Use tools like URL Profiler, CognitiveSEO, and Backlinks Monitor, to identify bad links and unnatural anchor text.

    Disavow the Bad Links: After you have identified and made the list of the links to be removed, submit the data into the Disavow Tool. The Disavow Tool will label a link with a tag so that Google algorithm does not credit it to your site in a positive or negative way, but keep in mind there are mixed reports on the efficacy of the tool.

    You can use the Disavow tool to disavow individual links or the whole domain. I recommend using the tool as the last resort. Here’s a complete guide on Identifying Bad Links and Pruning Them Using Google’s Disavow Tool.

    Contact the Webmasters: The key point to understand is that disavowing a link won’t help you come out clean. You need to contact the domain webmasters and ask them to remove these links. Getting the contact details of all these bad links might take you several days. This is where tools such as URL Profiler and Rmoov come handy:

    URL Profiler

    Once you have made the csv of the backlinks, URL profiler will help you in getting the contact information of the webmasters. Upload the csv into the tool and click on:

    Email addresses
    Whois Emails
    Whois Information
    The tool will take some time to fetch contact details for you.

    You can try the tool free for 30 days before going for the paid version.

    Rmoov

    Rmoov is one of the best tools to help find webmasters’ contact information quickly. In addition to providing contact details, the tool can also send automated link removal requests to webmasters on your behalf. The email can be customized and SMTP password can be shared to send bulk link removal emails on your behalf

    You can try the Basic version of the tool, which is available for free, to check the effectiveness of the tool. However, there are limitations on number of campaigns and URLs processed. The basic version allows you to search only 250 URLs. Register for the paid version for more URLs.

    Some webmasters might immediately remove the links, if you are lucky, while others may try to charge you money. If they are trying to charge you to remove the links, simply mark down the site and attach the correspondence details to the reconsideration request you will be sending to Google.
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