Does negative SEO still works in 2018?

[WPninja]

I wonder to know if negative SEO still works in this days? I heard that Google now understand negative SEO and Devalue them to avoid any ranking penalties.

I'm really excited to know what experts say?

 

[abdel007]

ya still works for churn and burn

 

[Leith]

Still works. Don't want to go into the details but it 100% works.

 

[Ybba Semad]

From what I can tell, negative SEO in a traditional sense (thousands of negative backlinks) doesn’t work anymore.

 

[Array Experts]

yes it's work

 

[swords12]

Based on my observation, it seems that Big G has cleverly categorized links into the spam category - for those spam links, and when grouped in such a way, these links have no value whatsoever, thus making them useless for practically anything.
I noticed that those spam links used to work great 5 years ago, and they gradually decrease in link power/juice, and up until recently, building these links contribute no value at all for link building efforts - it does not move your SERP up or down at all, meaning they are practically useless.
So with the link juice devalued and making the spam links virtually useless, you can't use those to increase your SERP, and it also does nothing much to negative SEO as well.
I also noticed a drastic drop in link removal requests - perhaps that also has something to do with the devaluation of these spam links, in that aspect.

 

[Owanceaser]

Yes, it works. If you affect buy Negative SEO means sure your site get penalize.

 

[ronald_aman]

Still work normally

 

[Vladamir]

Short answer, yup. Long answer...https://www.hallaminternet.com/what-is-negative-seo/ good article

 

[KHR]

Yes, works.!

But if the Owner notices this, he can protect.

Still, there are chances to be affected but recoverable.

 

[693840]

Isn’t negative SEO illegal?

 

[joseph15]

Like others said, NSEO through shitty backlinks doesn't work, those links will just be devalued. What people are doing these days are messing up anchor profiles, along with other things.

 

[Eximind]

Like others said, NSEO through shitty backlinks doesn't work, those links will just be devalued. What people are doing these days are messing up anchor profiles, along with other things.

How can you mess up anchor profile? These links will just be devalued, just like you said.

 

[Rachmaninoff]

How can you mess up anchor profile? These links will just be devalued, just like you said.

Not quite. I’ve seen sometimes they spamming with high DA link profiles but using spammy anchor text like porn/gambling to ruin the anchor text distribution.

 

[wblteam]

Yep, negative SEO works. But not working for an authority site.

Now Google is smart like the human brain. An authority site like Mashable or LifeHacker should not
create or build shitty links. So if Google recognized that Mashable has a lot of shitty links, and links
are created in recent times, Google will not count or follow shitty links.

Because Google knows Mashable is an authority site, they have not enough time to do this cheap business.

By the way, this is my personal point of view.

 

[Eximind]

PM me anyone who really knows how to carry this NSEO thing through, it's clearly more than just buying 10k spammy links for 10 bucks.

We have been dealing with a blackmailer for years (his doman age around 2 years, not too many backlinks), even through lawyers, webhosting, forums and everything, absolutely nothing works for this guy, he just likes to belittle our business without no apparent reason.

 

[don chino]

Negative SEO still seems to work for fresh sites and sites with little backlinks. However, bigger and authority sites that already have a decent backlink profile are much less affected by such attempts. Google tries to understand that it's negative SEO and not to count the links, but with fresh sites it might be considered as link building strategy to manipulate search engine.

 

[marrrko]

Yes, if you want to bury shitty website. But hey, on the other side, that kind of websites buried itself.
So, I doubt it works.

 

[MikeyMikey13]

Short answer, yup. Long answer...https://www.hallaminternet.com/what-is-negative-seo/ good article

Hallam is a company in the same city as me, white hat motherfuckers

Also OP: well created negative seo works - just like you can make errors on your own sites, you can do the same on others.

 

[aidenhera]

Not quite. I’ve seen sometimes they spamming with high DA link profiles but using spammy anchor text like porn/gambling to ruin the anchor text distribution.

nonsense. you actually have to use the kw someone targeted, and create a lot of links possibly using gsa with that anchor so its above 90%.