Is there a way to find out who is trying to damage my site
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Hi, to cut the story short, i hired a seo guy to do work on my site, paid a lot of money, but then when he was let go all the links to the site were stripped and other work had vanished. I want to know if there is a way to prove this and to also check on any other damage that he could be doing at the moment to my site. The site was running high in the search engines and then dropped a short while after he was let go.
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Bad SEO can be really disruptive to your ranking performance. It sounds like this person may have been using black hat link building techniques and decided to remove them once you parted ways.
There are ways to monitor and remove bad links that may negatively impacting your rankings. We have done this for many clients at GetBackOnGoogle.com to recover rankings after bad SEO work. It involves identifying incoming negative links and strategically requesting removal. In some cases you may need to disavow backlinks through Google Search Console, but the best option is to get them removed manually if possible first.
You can use the Moz Open Site Explorer to review and monitor inbound links.
If you truly think someone may have done something malicious, I would also recommend a full SEO audit to see if the setup of your website or SEO plugins have changed in any way and to make general improvements since your rankings have dropped. You'll also want to start working on content and building legitimate backlinks of your own from related sites in your industry.
Mark / AdFicient.com
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Hi, everything vanished. the site was ranking high and then dropped like a lead balloon. Its authority dropped as well
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He was probably paying for those links to be up while he worked on the project and then when he was let go he stopped so whoever supplied the links took them down when they didn't receive their monthly payment.
It happens quite often.Were the links removed instantly as he left or was there a space between the two events? Did the links that you had before you hired that guy also disappear?
As for website losing positions, that's an obvious reaction on losing a bunch of links all at once.
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