Negative SEO still a factor?

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Hi, can someone really mess your site up by sending crappy links? Today I'm getting 75 unique visitors on one of my newest sites and it's all direct traffic. I'm guessing someone blasted links somewhere? I wonder how much this will take effect?
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  • That sounds a little odd since it is new, I am assuming it also isn't a threat to anyone (meaning on the 1st page).
  • Yeah. I'm not expecting traffic. But now I got a lot of unique visitors from direct traffic. Not feeling safe at all.
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    Why would you automatically assume it's something negative?

    Maybe it's a domain that had traffic before you bought the domain? How long have you owned the domain & been tracking traffic?
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    • I bought the domain 2 weeks ago. Been tracking traffic since I bought the domain.

      There was 75 unique visitors for a particular page, all direct traffic.

      What I'm hoping is that perhaps someone made a backlink to my site, but then I don't see the info on where the site is coming from..

      It just gives me "direct linking" and absolute unique visitors.
  • As far as I am aware, Negative SEO is still an issue. Google does not have a way to know who is actually posting the spam. The only way for them to correct Negative SEO would be to become okay with all spam - we know they cannot do that.

    If somebody is doing this to your website, don't worry. Just keep posting great content so that the good links outweigh the bad. Google understands that every website is likely to have a bunch of spam links that the owner did not create. If your content is getting real people to create high quality editorial links to your posts than nothing the black hat guys do to you will make any difference - they are only wasting their own time.
  • Examine before making assumptions.. Also negative SEO is still possible, but from the case studies it doesn't last long and you'll have to keep hitting the site over and over in attempt to take it down.
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    • I agree with Yukon, no need to presume anything.

      If it's a blog install stat press and it will tell you where that traffic is really coming from. Is it KW searches off serps, is it some .ru that got a hold of you, it it maybe you got put on stumble upon and their system is checking you which can appear like uniques but it's not even real traffic.

      It looks like you need more info.

      Next, yes negative seo is alive and well. No matter what anyone tells you it always has been alive if you know what you're doing and have no ethics. People who say otherwise just don't know how to do it is all.

      And sorry, but it only takes one blast and any none huge auth site like Amazon or MSN etc.. is gone, see ya - wouldn't want to be ya.

      There is a lot of utter crap floating around and people read something and it's regurgitated as Gospel, but that don't make it so. Again, it's just because they are unaware of how to do it.

      Patrick
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  • Won't spammy links just not help but not hurt? Otherwise competitors could go drop links on spammed out sites all day long. I think they just don't carry any weight/ juice. It's onsite you only need to worry about IMO.
  • Broadly defined, “negative SEO” can mean anything malicious someone does to harm your site’s rankings. negative SEO really only means one thing – that someone has launched an organized effort to make your link profile look bad.
  • One can mess with your SEO by sending crappy links, but you can easily outweigh them with good links . every site has some crappy links, but It's not a big problem as long as they have more good links
  • I think it can hurt your site if the site is new and doesn't have any "good" links at all.

    However, if you are able to get a bunch of high-quality high-PR and relevant backlinks, the risk of getting hurt is much lesser.
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    Negative SEO still a factor?

    Hi, can someone really mess your site up by sending crappy links? Today I'm getting 75 unique visitors on one of my newest sites and it's all direct traffic. I'm guessing someone blasted links somewhere? I wonder how much this will take effect?