Negative SEO
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I have a client who is being spammed really bad with links. Using porn keywords and keyword with porn in anchor text with the site URL.
Anyone had experience with this?
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So glad to hear about the recovery. Thanks for sharing!
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Well, after countless hours of sorting through links and disavowing. My clients site is ranking number one again for a keyword that gets 500,000 exact searches a month.
I have impressed my self this month lol Thanks for all the replies. It was a very stressful time sorting through 500,000 links.
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Honestly In my opinion I believe google already has been aware of this situation. If a website has had a clean history and no spam links for a long time nothing unnatural then these negative SEO will not affect even though you do not use disavow tool. There were debates on this before disavow tool too please check moz archives.
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Yeah, you can work for countless hours in link removal, then a week after Google removes your penalty BAM, another batch of 100,000 links and they probably spent $5 (?) in fiverr for those links and you are f***, again. Rinse and repeat. And instead of focusing on what matters, your business, you need to focus on keeping your Website clean from what others can do.
Google seriously needs to figure this out by themselves, instead of using us to police the Internet, while they $$$$$$.
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I will reply back after I spend some tedious hours removing the links.
I think the first step is to obviously sort all the porn anchor texts they used and disavow them.
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Take good notes! Download CSVs from GWT, Take screenshots, document ALL findings. You will need all this should you have to put together a resubmission package for Google.
There's really no way to stop it, unfortunately. I've tried sleuthing a few of these instances in the past and have yet to be successful in getting results. I'd really really like to though (hey if anyone wants to join the fight let me know!)
Good luck, keep us posted.
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There is quite a bit of blackhat link spam going on out there. I hear it's in response to the Google updates, in which people are pushing spam links to legitimate sites to make Google adjust their filters. I guess these black hatters would rather see the baby cut in half than given to the true owner...
The best way to combat this will be to use the Disavow Tool
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