8 Warning Signs Your Website May Have Been Affected by Negative SEO
8 Warning Signs Your Website May Have Been Affected by Negative SEO Negative SEO is the act of using blackhat operations that go against Google's guidelines in a malicious effort to diminish the success or effectiveness of a website's SEO properties by altering or disabling them and is most commonly performed by a competitor or enemy. While some malicious SEO tactics go virtually unnoticed, some of the most common signs that your website has been affected by negative SEO include: Unfamiliar Backlinks The most widely used type of negative SEO tactic is blackhat backlinks. During this process, the attacker will create, obtain, or purchase multiple, often legitimate looking backlinks, and then point them to the website of attack for the sole intent of creating an excessive number of backlinks and making it appear as though the website owner created them. These links can be forum spam, blog spam, guest blog spam, or any other type of spam. Some tactics ...