This we came across last year in 2019, we were looking for SEO Agencies and we found two listings belongs to a well know restaurant, one of them was verified and changed to an SEO agency Amman! taking their reviews and changing some images but could not delete all, we reported the incident on Local Guides Connect and it received a hard suspension, here is the full story: Here is more gems if you enjoy the read so far, Google My Business is a solution under development, work in progress, with a different algorithm than organic search, more pieces to move, simpler strategies and practices, in short, there is so many flaws in the system.Ī recent bug was solved recently -this no more works – where users were able to suggest the opening date of the location, if he suggested a futuristic date and it got approved by Google Algorithm, it will disappear from maps until the supposedly launch date! that affect many business and it’s a relief that it’s fixed.
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He brought him links from inappropriate websites, and pushed relevancy by anchors related to Cars and Ladies which turned to be huge category with traffic from the inappropriate websites, that caused the spammer a manual penalty taking him out of the SERP completely. There Chris decided he is guilty by situation, and decided to Negative SEO attack him in return, long story short Chris destroyed him. Then the rankings began to drop, and their regular competitors too, while a new player in town has entered the market with big budget for links and a sophisticated SEO agency, getting them links worth 100 USD for link, and buying links for their competitors 1,000links for 1USD! So when to use the disavow tool? in some cases, if the links are being built manually, with the intention to Negative SEO your website, check your competitors, who is winning, or who else is loosing, a good SEO consultant can bring you more details than you could imagine.Ĭhris Bennet – Well Known SEO from Agency Hacker – once shared a story, his father had a car wash station in Australia, their website and local SEO is their bread and butter, and they had some decent competition for 4 years. However, you should not help Google with their job, if it’s not counting the link positively, then it will ignore the links, don’t worry. However, if you detected such links polluting your link profile, you can always disavow low quality links through Google Disavow Tool. The most common links Negative SEO practice, is using a tool to build thousand of low quality back-links to your website, which will either get you a penalty for links scheme, or fill your back link profile if on Google Search Console Link Report.įortunately, Google is getting much better in detecting those links and ignoring them, they probably have equal positive effect if they were intended to boost your ranking and authority – Yeah some SEO’s still do that – But it’s pointless. Links used to be as harmful as powerful, back in the days it was easier to hack a website place a link from their most authoritative page to your website, fortunately it’s getting harder to place links nowadays, but still you need to check your source pages and run test for external links regularly. In this article, we will cover the most common practices, and some tips to protect your website, but there is no ultimate way to fully secure your SEO, in search, there are no guarantees, and even big G cannot control Good SEO, Negative SEO and Webspam, however, they are getting better year after year, so are we.īefore getting to Negative SEO, beware that in most cases of ranking drops or other SEO issues, the cause is usually Self-inflected, in the process of optimizing something that is actually working, webmasters can change settings that back-fire! not a Negative SEO attack, nor Google penalty or any other outside action, check all on-site, redirections, server-side, Google Search Console security issues, activity log, and other monitors before investigating Negative SEO. SEO and Digital marketing is about learning the internet, and use it to make brands popular, famous, discoverable, Negative SEO on the other hand, is a reverse process of the same practices to get the opposite effect.