What is a Negative SEO Attack and how can you protect yourself?

Lynne Level 1

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November 26, 2016, 2:38 pm

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What is a Negative SEO Attack and how can you protect yourself?

From the way I understand it a negative SEO attack is when someone purposely performs black hat methods on your website in an attempt to trash your Google rankings to outrank you.

I've seen some people in forums asking where they can buy negative SEO attacks on a competitors website.

So this makes me kinda edgy and it is something that has been on my mind a lot, what if someone decides they don't like you and purposely and maliciously hit you with a negative SEO attack?

What exactly can you do to protect yourself against this sort of attack?

In addition to that, how do you find out who carried out the attack? And how would you take legal action against that person?

In my mind this sort of malicious behaviour can really damage a person's business yet it seems like it is quite common which is very scary!

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EliteWriter

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It is sad that some people prefer to act in this negative manner against competitors, rather than focusing their efforts on something positive for their site. I find this to be really unethical. Sadly I am not quite sure if you could do anything that effective to safeguard yourself against such an act, other than trying to keep an eye on backlinks.

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Lynne

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Yes that is what I am getting to see now. A person that conducts themselves in such an awful, unethical way must be quite desperate to get ahead... the sad part is that I don't believe that anyone that does this will come out tops anyway since it takes hard work and dedication to really get ahead. Happiness is a frame of mind, not money and business success. If you can't sleep at night or look at yourself in the mirror have you made it?

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Corzhens

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It looks like the competition is so heated when you have to resort to negative SEO. But I clearly understand that feeling because I had been into some local communities here where there were 3 forums fighting for supremacy. The quarrel is not limited to the admin but the venom had spread to the members. In those cases, I guess it is logical and reasonable for them to resort to negative SEO. But if I were them, I would fight with positive SEO and would try my best to improve my site in order to obtain legitimate members and visitors.

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