Negative SEO is another big issue among SEOs and webmasters all over the world. Know more details about Negative SEO and How to deal with it. Read latest SEO tips how to save website from bad link building, hacking, malware and link injection. We all are aware with latest updates from Google like Penguin 3.0, Panda 4.1, Google manual penalty and algorithm changes. Google penguin is most imporatnt factor which increases the risk of negative SEO.
First we will understand, what is negative SEO? – Negative SEO is combination of all activities which affects competitiors website ranking. Bad link building is the easiest way of negative SEO.
1. Negative SEO activties are performed do downgrade competitor’s website ranking.
2. Negative SEO can affect competitor’s website quality and trust.
3. Due to negative SEO competior’s website could be punished for penguin and manual penalty.
As SEOs can’t change on page elements of competitor’s website. So bad link building is the only easy activity which can be used as weapon against your website. Negative SEO is easy for compitor’s website. Many companies and websites hiring SEOs for doing bad link building for their competitor’s website.
Now We will provide some of the important SEO tips of being safe with negative SEO
1. Setup Google webmaster tools account for your website.
2. Keep a track of backlinks and anchor text in your webmaster account.
3. Download the fresh data and keep a track of bad link
4. If you found any unwanted or doubtful link note that link.
5. Contact the webmasters for removing bad links.
6. Use disvow link tool if your website link is not removed or websites asking too much money for remving link.
7. As disvow tool is new tool and Google is still testing it.
8. It is recommended that you should contact webmaster to remove links manually.
9. Till we don’t get umuch more updates on disvow tool stay connected and signup for our latest SEO tips.
Other Negative SEO methods can be ORM (online reputation management) and website hacking. we will discucc these in next blog posts. keep an eye on your hosting account. Keep track on last modified files and analyze incoming and outgoing links.