Negative SEO appears more real than ever after Penguin. However, not everything you call "Negative SEO" really is negative SEO. Is it possible to identify negative SEO campaigns and what can you do to minimise the damage?
3. Is Negative SEO Real?
And should I really be worried?
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4. Google has updated the text of a webmaster
answer in May 2012
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?
hl=en&answer=34449
“There's almost nothing a “Google works hard to prevent
competitor can do to harm other webmasters from being able
your ranking“ to harm your ranking”
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7. Another extremity…
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8. Negative SEO is to blame for everything that
goes wrong
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9. Self-inflicted
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10. Self-inflicted
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11. Self-inflicted
◦ Insecure plugins
◦ Incorrect redirects
◦ Robots errors
◦ Deindexing own site
◦ Duplicate content
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12. Self-inflicted in Wordpress
◦ Indexable search results
http://www.domain.com/search/buy+viagra
http://www.domain.com/?s=buy+viagra
◦ Default robots.txt or no robots.txt
◦ Result: duplicate content + can be indexed for any
sketchy stuff
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18. Watch your anchor texts
Bonus: How to spot a possible negative SEO campaign using MajesticSEO:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-use-majesticseo-to-identify-a-possible
-negative-seo-campaign-by-irish-wonder/56921/
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19. Watch your links
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20. Negative SEO is real
So is people’s stupidity and laziness
Avoid mistakes that can make a negative SEO
campaign against you easier
Make it economically unviable to run a
negative campaign against your site
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21. Oh, and add this to your Wordpress site’s
robots.txt:
◦ Disallow: /search/
◦ Disallow: /*?s=
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