Questions tagged [negative-seo]
The negative-seo tag should be used for questions about preventing attackers from hurting the rankings of your site. Questions about conducting negative SEO against other sites are off-topic (and immoral.) Negative SEO is NOT about potentially damaging your own site's rankings and this tag should not be used in such cases.
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How to PREVENT ranking for a keyword? [duplicate]
A client frequently receives unwanted traffic from Google. They do not wish to receive these visitors, mainly because they want not to deal with them through their support channels. So they asked for ...
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Get Google to ignore backlinks from a particular domain
I just used a backlink scan tool to show me the backlinks to my site. I have found there are almost 90k backlinks. The problem is that about 95% of these are coming from the same domains and these are ...
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Setting up Wordpress site for AMP - SEO implications
This is fairly new and I have been reading up on AMP implantation. There is a plugin that sets up AMP pages for WordPress.
My concern is duplicate content since there will be a new set of pages with ...
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Can I capitalize on my spammed open redirect by changing where the redirects point?
I have two websites. One is rather old and used to be my main site, and it still has a good bit of PageRank. The newer site is passing the old one in terms of SEO. On my old site, I have a ASP page ...
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Hide joyride (intro javascript) for Googlebot
I am using a joyride script for new visitors.
Example here:
http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/v/5.5.3/components/joyride.html
After the vistior is done with the intro, a cookie will be created ...
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Is hiding text in links bad if the links are icon fonts?
I've done a few quick SEO tests of a page and they all suggest "consider adding text to links". The links they were referring to are all social icons, and are displayed using icon fonts. I've read a ...
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Multiple websites with same topic
I want to create 10 websites about same topic.
Each website has its own template and each will have around 10 unique articles. Topcis/titles of the articles will be identical. I will not link sites ...
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How to link domains hosted on one hosting account
I have several different domains hosted on one hosting account and some of these domains are linked together not because I am trying to influence page rank but because they contain related content. ...
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A domain I'm want to register is listed "malicious" — should I be worried?
I've found an interesting domain name that I'm considering about getting, did a Google search, and one of the results on the first page appears to suggest that the former site at the domain name might ...
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Changing pagination, and having more sections per page
I'm upgrading an old website, from having 25 results per page (40 pages), to having 50-100 per page (5-10 pages)
This will change the pagination, and maybe affect search engines in a bad way.. So I'm ...
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Cleaning up web results after SEO spam attack
A while ago my Wordpress-based personal site was hacked with SEO spam. I've since cleaned it up (removed and reinstalled wordpress, manually checked through all files, manually checked database ...
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If I have nested a span tag inside H1 tag,Is it effect SEO
I have a site that give users all kind of services
so let's say I put a span tag inside my H1 tag and with js I will replace it every 3 sec
for example my h1 tag contains :
<h1>Best italian ...
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SEO - My web page ranks by images but no by content
I have a page with original content which only ranks my images but don't rank the articles. The images appears in SERPS with an interesting graphic of impressions:
As you can see in picture I've made ...
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How do I know if backlinks are hurting my search rankings?
The previous owner had disavowed 400+ backlinks, but I know that some of them were very good and high quality. I un-disavowed them. (Avowed?) I don't know what they were thinking, but how do I ...
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Google algorithm penalty & reconsideration request
There is no any manuel penalty message on my Webmaster Tools > manual actions tab.
But, my visitors count decrease 10.000 to 1.000 in last 3 years.
All seo-check services says my site is OK: W3C ...
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Scraped content from my website posted on Blogspot is outranking my site and causing Google penalty
I noticed that starting from October the organic traffic is very low on my website. I searched on Google for some text phrases from my website and I noticed that there is a Blogspot website, a blog ...
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Is content scraping useful for SEO or harmful?
Is content scraping useful for SEO or harmful?
Scraping: Taking content from other places on the web and publishing it on your own site.
There are many websites that only contain pieces of other ...
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Add site to search engines, even though not ready yet
I'm building a website, and until it's done, visitors will see a "This site will launch on new year's day 2015", and a description of what the site is all about
The domain is new, and nobody knows ...
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URL Rewrite with spaces or with -?
Which URL is more SEO?
mydomain.com/category-name/article-name.html
OR
mydomain.com/category name/article name.html
I have read some articles about URL Rewriting but there I can't find any ...
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Any negative consequences of linking from a wordpress site to another site that uses ASP pages
A client of mine had a blog that utilized ASP pages for some content. Recently they moved their site to a Linux-based server and installed Wordpress. They did not want to have all the ASP pages ...
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Is negative SEO fact or fiction
I have read a couple of articles about negative/black SEO. They were explaining that important part of it is creating web sites with "bad" content that "stink" to Google. Back links from these sites ...
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Will the "Geographic Target" of my website negatively affect my search ranking? [duplicate]
Some time ago I bought a "cool" domainname to match my username, namely, wol.ph. After looking in the Google Webmaster Tools recently it told me that the Geographic Target for my domain is ...
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Can someone cause me negative SEO by reporting to Google?
I've been getting emails like this:
Our site has been penalized by Google because of a handful of back
links pointing to our site (we have lost 80% of our traffic). I have
opened a line of ...
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How to prevent negative SEO?
Negative SEO can harm your website rankings, that's why a rival might decide to use negative SEO techniques against you to try to penalize your website rankings, and thus obtain higher positions on ...
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How to properly use related search links on sites without taking a negative SEO hit?
On a search results page, I want to show related search links. These links are generated by user searches, that aren't already part of the site's regular links. This, in effect was to increase the ...
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How to combat negative SEO?
Someone has decided to create a hate blog on a hosted blogging service (wordpress.com) that bashes my company. The blog contains posts that completely flame myself, my service, and contains complete ...
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