Negative SEO attack, just keep disavowing?
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Hello,
Around 2 months ago someone started a negative SEO campaign against us. Each week in Majestic around 50-60 domains appear (all .biz or .eu) which link to our site in hidden code via the exact match keyword. Now luckly nothing has happened to our rankings, as i have been disavowing all those links as soon as they appear in Majestic. (google only shows a few of them, and Google webmaster forum told me that google only shows a "sample of links" and that we should disavow as soon as we see)
So only thing for me is to monitor majestic each week and keep on disavowing. I think there are almost 250 domains to this date i have disavowed. Or should i still only disavow those that google shows? (I think not, as those are "sample links")
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Hi Richard,
Definitely, you shouldn't worry about spammy links. As you keep spotting them, throw that list into the disavow file.
There are some comments from an authoritative person in the community: Marie Haynes.
Disavowing in 2019 and beyond – the latest info on link auditingHope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston -
I've got over 5000 in my disavow file. When it all started I tried to keep up with it, auditing my GWT links and using AHREFS. I finally stopped doing it. Some of the targeted pages are still doing good in the SERPs but its always in the back of my mind these those spammy links are holding the site back some. While for several years there was steady growth in traffic, that growth has slowed significantly. I think it is partly due to more competition in my niche and some dirty rotten scoundrel building those spammy links to my site.
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In my opinion those are 2 different things, one is diminishing its linkjuice and onother is showing that website backlinks in the Search Console profile.
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Yes, they say don't worry, but in our case many bad domains shows up in google website link profile, so it looks like they get through their algorithms and need to be disavow manually.
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We are in the same boat; one of our website has been hit with negative SEO for at least last 6 month. Every week we have been getting links from bad domains(we use ahrefs to identify them), all kinds… some even disturbing. They link to home page, specific landing page or some link to images. We are currently having almost 1000 bad domains in google disavow tool.
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Hi advertisingtech,
Yeap, as lon as you clearly identify those links as spammy and/or really harmful.
Google said (through their people) several times that you should not worry THAT much about spammy links, today's algorithms are really good at detecting and not considering them.
The latest resource: Glenn Gabe tweet_1 and Tweet_2. Also useful to watch that whole Webmasters Office-hours HangoutAlso just a reminder, do not rely only in one tool, try to (if possible) complementate with other tools, such as ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz OpensiteExplorer or others.
Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.
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