Post about a site i own that was attacked with thousands of links!

[pugyrob]

For anyone interested. I did a guest blog about a site i am launching that got negatively seo'ed even prior to ranking! http://www.seobook.com/blog

Not designed to be a sob story but more a tale of where Google is at and how negative seo is more and more prevalent until they change things!

 

[retired_member34]

Interesting, and disturbing. The internet seems to becoming free of morals in all areas of business. Don't suppose you could find out who paid the link farm? Any feedback from G from the disavow request?

 

[pugyrob]

Interesting, and disturbing. The internet seems to becoming free of morals in all areas of business. Don't suppose you could find out who paid the link farm? Any feedback from G from the disavow request?

Yea was a surprise when i saw the links. It is a worry that Google does not give you any protection against it. I don't know who added them and impossible to find out really as many automated tools would do it. I do have a very good idea though.

As for the disavow, no news on that but i don't think they come back to you on that anyway. I doubt the links would register enough yet so the disavow was more to guard against future penalties than existing ones.

 

[cc976a]

It's so easy for Google to fix. It's staring them right in the face - simply don't apply any negative weight to any site.

Really there isn't any need. A search engine is about finding relevant sites, not revenge tactics of sites which 'break the rules' (which in fairness were only being used because this is what Google originally wanted)

If G knows enough about the site to penalize it, it knows enough just not to give a bonus.

Actually G are actually going against their own mandate and mission statement with negative penalties. They deem to show the most relevant result for their visitors, to find exactly what the customer is looking for - as long as the most relevant site in the eyes of the consumer didn't p*ss G off by link spamming. No matter how valuable they may be.

 

[retired_member32]

discusting....

not only do we have a negative effect on EMD, the .uk which is strangling sales of the co.uk extension and now the increasing presence of negative seo its become a minefield...all you need now is a hacked template, one page of content and thousands of incoming links from social network sites to reach the top of google....how is this better Google ?....oh yes people that have spent thousands on a site are more likely to turn to PPC....sorry i forgot

I know how much time, effort and money you put into this project Rob and it makes me feel sick....and the thing is this person will more than likely get away with it...

 

[WaftyCrank]

If there are links to your site that you feel are spam links, what is the google url to have them ignore it?

 

[Murray]

You know, if someone had done a fake "negative SEO" attack on their own new site as link bait and free promotion it would be rather clever wouldn't it?.

 

[disruptive]

It's really easy for others to ruin your business as the cost of doing so is now v. limited. In the past there was effort to obtain quality links - now its doubly worse as your competitors can obtain automated crap links with relative ease ensuring you score badly.

This could turn out to be warfare as I could look around at my competitors and use auto link builders to nuke them. Much akin to clicking your competition's AdWords links from differing IP's.

It is nasty and I think now is ripe for an alternative to Google. Many people are getting fed up with the algorithm tweaks, personalization and privacy and rights issues. There are alternatives but maybe there is no going back...Google could sink us all.

 

[Jamie101]

You know, if someone had done a fake "negative SEO" attack on their own new site as link bait and free promotion it would be rather clever wouldn't it?.

Ha, that actually would be quite clever.

Genuinely feel sorry for the owner of this site though.