Comments on: Yes Virginia, There Is Negative SEO

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:32:50 +0000

This is a very good post, it is informative and a great guide for anyone who has be unfortunate enough to be hit by a Google penalty, thank you for sharing.

By: Antoine Magnan

Antoine Magnan — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:25:11 +0000

NSEO is not so easy and in most cases it needs much more fire power than it needs to rank a website..

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:00:45 +0000

The more natural and authoritative links you have the harder it will be for spammy links to influence your rankings and negative SEO will not be a big problem.I will never do it.It’s bad and unfair.I’m glad that you shared this.I’m now aware of negative SEO.Thanks.

By: Zak

Zak — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:51:06 +0000

Wonderful work! That is the kind of info that are supposed to be shared around the net.
Disgrace on Google for not positioning this post
upper! Come on over and seek advice from my web site .
Thanks =)

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:45:18 +0000

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By: Luca

Luca — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:17:41 +0000

@Matt, you can not compare SEOMoz to the small business website…

I haven’t done any testing but I’m pretty sure with all the latest updates any standard website (without such a strong SEO as seomoz) could get hurt with $20 in fiverr…

By: Brad Dalton

Brad Dalton — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:31:12 +0000

The problem here is you cannot contact anyone at Google whereas you can contact Bing.

There’s a form you can use if you think you’ve been hit unfairly, but you won’t get a response so you don’t know if they have checked your site.

I have found from my study into negative SEO that Google are clearly favoring U.S owned domains over non U.S owned domains.

I have reported negative SEO to Google many times but they have never responded in anyway shape or form.

This is the site which caused me problems

modamusic.com 7,627 Links

The host and domain manager refused to take down this site even though it was clear it had been hacked for negative SEO purposes.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:56:05 +0000

The issue here is that the exhibition site probably had very few naturally occurring links, so the pharma links would have made up a huge percentage of the backlink profile.

In a real world example, I’d expect negative SEO won’t work anywhere near so well. Rand Fishkin asked the SEO community to try and get his site penalised recently, and despite many SEO’s best efforts he didn’t see so much as a ripple in his rankings.

By: TallTroll

TallTroll — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:55:43 +0000

… and I can think of at least 3 or 4 other major methods to trash a sites rankings, depending on what vulnerabilities might exist in the technical details of a given target, that you haven’t even touched on. I know it sounds an odd thing to say, but I don’t think Search Engineers understand search very well, or they wouldn’t keep giving us these wonderfuls toys… I mean, dangerous techniques