Someone is doing negative SEO of my website... Help Needed Please :(

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Hi Warrior Friends,

I need a serious help.

Since January of 2013 my site's rankings have tanked, I don't know who, or old SEO firm that I left is doing this. A lot of bad links are coming from Russia and are killing my rankings, I need help what do I do, do I just start a new domain?

what is solution to unknown bad quality links?

Kindly help me.
#search engine optimization #needed #negative #seo #website
  • not much info in your post

    Give us your website and some more information about it... are you actively doing SEO ? did you stop ? Did you identify links that you didn't put yourself? Did the guy who did SEO for you provide you with the backlinks he used for your site?

    I had a similar case like this where they hired an "SEO expert" to do their SEO and ended up spamming the crap out of their site with a software. In some cases this will bump you up in the rankings but will then gradually keep falling.
  • In general as you cannot stop others to not posting your links on junk sites but to compensate it you continuously need to build relevant backlinks with time. You may also try using the disavow tool to let Google ignore those link.
  • If its negative SEO then the link velocity will be really high.

    - is it?
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    • What he said.

      You can check link velocity in a variety of ways. One simple way is to enter the domain at ahrefs.com and look at the graph of links - you'll quickly see (or not see) a huge spike in links over a very short period.

      I have a client site that had negative SEO applied to it. About 5000 spammy links with anchor text like "pOrn" and much worse used. The person actually did it to about 20 sites in the same niche (probably targeted all sites ranking on the first couple of pages of Google for keywords he was going for). For my client, about a half dozen keywords that ranked on Page 1 dropped into the 300 and 400 range. But about a month later they were all back to Page 1. I of course can't know for sure if it was the negative SEO that caused this (seems likely, but there are so many variables in ranking that you can never absolutely assign one cause to the effect).
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