How do negative SEO attacks work?

Usually they spam bad backlinks, copy your content or send fake traffic. Goal is to make your site look low quality so rankings drop.

negative SEO usually means someone tries to hurt a site with things like spammy backlinks, fake scraping, toxic redirects, or other shady signals. google ignores a lot of junk now, but i’d still keep an eye on backlink profiles and sudden traffic changes. good site structure, regular audits, strong branded signals, and healthy backlink diversity help a lot. i’ve seen sites recover faster when they already had a solid foundation in place.