Negative SEO and Disavow File

[Mrnjaux]

Hi people,

my site is under Negative SEO attack by negative backlinks and hotlinking and every day i get a few new negative backlinks some of which often redirect to another domain (etc. today URL is https://domain-name1.com and after a few days that domain redirect to https://domain-name2.com). So my question is how often should i make disavow file to remove this kind of links? And could negative SEO can be so harmful to organic traffic because on the screenshot when traffic falling down (before two years) it's the time when i started to get bad backlinks.

Thanks in advance!

 

[tazarbm]

damn, your traffic really plummeted! And it's constant drop, which could indeed be because of those links. Had your site been penalized by one of google's many updates you would have lost traffic instantly, not gradually, which makes me believe that those links did indeed affect your site.

Normally, you should disavow them as soon as they pop up, but this is tedious work, so try disavowing them once a month. Now, the question is: what ratio do those "negative" links represent in your total number of links? Because - if they're not many - you shouldn't bother disavowing them, but if they make up most of your backlinks then they're the culprit for your traffic drop for sure.... At least based on the information I have about your site so far, it could definitely be other reasons as well...

Anyway, check how much those links represent in your total and based on that number either start disavowing them or ignore them!

 

[Mrnjaux]

damn, your traffic really plummeted! And it's constant drop, which could indeed be because of those links. Had your site been penalized by one of google's many updates you would have lost traffic instantly, not gradually, which makes me believe that those links did indeed affect your site.

Normally, you should disavow them as soon as they pop up, but this is tedious work, so try disavowing them once a month. Now, the question is: what ratio do those "negative" links represent in your total number of links? Because - if they're not many - you shouldn't bother disavowing them, but if they make up most of your backlinks then they're the culprit for your traffic drop for sure.... At least based on the information I have about your site so far, it could definitely be other reasons as well...

Anyway, check how much those links represent in your total and based on that number either start disavowing them or ignore them!

Thank you tazarbm for the answer!

So if I get approximately per day 5-10 new referring domains 1-2 of them are "negative" and the other ones are toxic (more like spammy or irrelevant). Is it good to update every day disavow file with new links on the top (because I had read on some topic it's not good because Google starting crawling again and again from beginning?)

 

[tazarbm]

Thank you tazarbm for the answer!

So if I get approximately per day 5-10 new referring domains 1-2 of them are "negative" and the other ones are toxic (more like spammy or irrelevant). Is it good to update every day disavow file with new links on the top (because I had read on some topic it's not good because Google starting crawling again and again from beginning?)

so, about 20% of 'em... hmm... they're not that many IMO, and google ignores such links anyway if your domain is strong and trustworthy. So, I don't think you should stress about them. If they were 50-60% of your total links, now that might have been a problem

Personally I'd not put the links on the disavow list daily (I think I'd even forget lol)... Just make a new list each month with the newly acquired (bad) links and call it a campaign!

 

[Mrnjaux]

so, about 20% of 'em... hmm... they're not that many IMO, and google ignores such links anyway if your domain is strong and trustworthy. So, I don't think you should stress about them. If they were 50-60% of your total links, now that might have been a problem

Personally I'd not put the links on the disavow list daily (I think I'd even forget lol)... Just make a new list each month with the newly acquired (bad) links and call it a campaign!

Okay, i'll try to disavow them a few times per month so will see what will happen.
Thank you for the help!