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Is my site being attacked? (negative seo)

by CutPasteProfits
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Hey guys,

Today I noticed that I got a whole bunch (30+) trackbanks to a few different posts on my site. When I checked the referrer, they were in Chinese, and some of them were from other questionable pharma sites.

I have no idea who is blasting my links, but does this mean someone is doing negative SEO to my site?

If so, how do I avoid any penalties?

Thank you!
#attacked #negative #seo #site
  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Neg SEO is when they build links to your site.

    If I understand it correctly they are just spamming your site with trackbacks/comments, just disable trackbacks/comments and problem solved, or install the Askimet plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author CutPasteProfits
    They go straight to the spam queue and I haven't approved them. It seems to have stopped for now, but if it starts happening again I'll have to investigate. I know everyones probably had a good rant about this, but I just don't see how Google can't come up with a better solution for this type of thing and stop making everyone so paranoid.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by CutPasteProfits View Post

      They go straight to the spam queue and I haven't approved them. It seems to have stopped for now, but if it starts happening again I'll have to investigate. I know everyones probably had a good rant about this, but I just don't see how Google can't come up with a better solution for this type of thing and stop making everyone so paranoid.
      This is just blog comment spam, what can Google do about that? :confused:

      If I want to launch scrapebox to send trackbacks I just do that, how can Google stop me?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by CutPasteProfits View Post

    Hey guys,

    Today I noticed that I got a whole bunch (30+) trackbanks to a few different posts on my site. When I checked the referrer, they were in Chinese, and some of them were from other questionable pharma sites.

    I have no idea who is blasting my links, but does this mean someone is doing negative SEO to my site?

    If so, how do I avoid any penalties?

    Thank you!

    Nobody is building backlinks TO your site. They are trying to build backlinks FROM your site. They are hoping your site is either autoapprove or that you are dumb enough to approve the trackbacks. That gives them a link.

    This is not a negative SEO attack.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Why would you even consider allowing trackback links on your own site/page?
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  • Profile picture of the author CutPasteProfits
    I actually didn't know what trackbacks were actually for until today - shows how new I am to SEO and link building. I'm learning as I go, and I've got the basics down

    I did check my link profile today and I got some strange links from spammy .edu blogs. They have thousands of outbound links on the pages which are clearly spammed, and I didn't build them. I also got a notice that someone from LA tried to log in to my gmail account, so I am walking on eggshells right now.
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    ->>Sales Letters So Sexy You'll Want To SPANK Them!<<-
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by CutPasteProfits View Post

      I actually didn't know what trackbacks were actually for until today - shows how new I am to SEO and link building. I'm learning as I go, and I've got the basics down
      It's all good. Everyone has to start somewhere.

      Turn those Trackbacks off. If you have comments on your site use something like the Facebook iframe code snippet, that way comments aren't junking up your on-page SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
    Delete comments.php

    problem solved
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by Henrich View Post

      Delete comments.php

      problem solved
      More terrible advice. Your on a roll tonight buddy.


      @OP

      I wouldn't follow this advice for a second because

      1: There's a couple more things need deleting.
      2: If he had took the time to read the thread instead of signature link spamming. He'd know that this is not the problem your're actually having.

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