My friend seems to have been hit my Negative SEO
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A friend of mine has asked me to help him out as he seems to have been hit by Negative SEO. His ranks have recently dropped and that seems to coincide with the following email he got.
I have changed the web address
Small gif for you and you f%$£@£ seo spamers
http://www.website.com/website
keyword : website
now your site go down in google
you f$%$£@g bastard !!!
urls list ofer 5000
They have then listed him in 5000 blog comments which has seemed to cause his ranks to drop off the radar.
I am going to help him out free of charge as he is a good mate, I am seeing conflicting stories on here some saying Negative SEO is a myth, others saying its very real.
Anybody got any tips on how to resolve this quickly?
Thanks
James
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Thanks Kevin useful link I hope this tool does come out and we don't have to wait months. Surely would save google a bit of admin having people asking for reevaluation of their site.
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He can file a reconsideration request and as mentioned, include the email that was sent to him. However, if he files a reconsideration request Google is likely going to look at all of his links. So, if he has unnatural links of his own they're going to need to be cleaned up.
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See: http://searchengineland.com/live-blog-you-a-with-matt-cutts-at-smx-advanced-123513
about Google's Disavow-This-Link tool
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Yeah we are going to put something to Google for them to look at. I heard of a tool coming out from Google that allows you to tell Google which links to ignore if you get this kind of problem. Sounds perfect for this kind of situation I will it was out now.
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I would immediately report that to google and send the complete headers of the email.
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