negative seo

Hi everyone, Is negative SEO still effective in 2026? Can spammy backlinks or other tactics still hurt a site's rankings, or does Google ignore them now? I'd love to hear your thoughts and how you protect your websites.

Saw the negative SEO thread earlier this week and figured this deserves its own post, because the variant that actually works in 2026 isn't links. It's paperwork. What's happening: people are filing fake DMCA copyright complaints against pages they want out of the SERPs. Google's process...

As Google allowed anyone to request content removal from SERPs, fraudulent DMCA requests are piling up requesting the removal of original content owned by the original publisher and website. And guess what? Google is removing webpages without thinking twice. The victims are not random bloggers...

Let's say there is a negative blog article about a service or a product. And I want the blog article to disappear or just not be indexed anymore on google...or at least push that article down the rankings as much as possible How would you go about it? Are there tools here that can do it? I am...

Hello, Ive recently bought an expired domain with really good backlinks from auction. But a few days ago i found out that there is someone to redirected their very spammy domains to mine. They passed over 2k RD, when mine only has about 300. I've contacted their hosting provider but havent...

I've been wondering lately about negative SEO methods. Lots of chatter about CTR boosting services working wonders for site traffic, but then there’s the dark side. Using those same tricks to slam a rival's SEO with nasty bounce rates. Got me thinking, is there a way to bulletproof our sites...

"Friends, I have an online store that once ranked first on Google for many keywords. About a year ago, my site was attacked, suffered negative SEO, and got hacked. I lost all rankings and fell back to page 5 on Google. With much effort, I managed to get back to the middle of the first page...

A competitor has been SEO attacking me on and off for years. Luckly there has been enough time between attacks for me to disavow and get my traffic back. Since I'm much better at SEO than him, I always spring back and come back stronger than before. Recently he is pretty much SEO attacking me...

I have been receiving a lot of new backlinks with URL's ending in "-k.html" recently. These links are such a spam. What should I do? Should I disavow them once in a while?

Hey everyone, I manage brand and SEO campaigns for one of the biggest supermarkets in the country. We majorly do home delivery and don't take online orders. Lately, we've seen a lot of fake websites using our brand name and duping customers worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars. These websites...

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...

Hello, i am just curious if any of you have ever experienced, or been the person doing negative seo? What is it exactly? Obv it hurts someones seo essentially, harmful links, etc. But has anyone ever done it, intentionally? Or have you ever had it done to you? Has anyone ever used bots to...

So, yesterday I brought a new domain, completely fresh, never registered before but today I am seeing lots of spammy 301 redirects being done on it. With these spammy 301s, I am seeing lots of being redirected to login and brute-force attempts. Like, spamdomain.com/wp-login.php >...

Hello! Is there anyone who offers black hat SEO to affect competitors' sites negatively? Are there any case studies regarding that?

I see a lot of new or old members of BHW piss their pants and make desperate HELP ME threads when they get hit by a Negative SEO Attack. So I decided to share a little method that can protect your website from any negative SEO attack. G is smart enough now to detect a simple negative SEO attack...

Hey guys, I have this question. So say I blasted 500k GSA shitty comment backlinks at a money site's blog post. Now I have deleted the blog post. Will this deletion erase the negative effect of the 500k spammy backlinks? In your experience, please let me know.

Hey Folks, Looks like someone implemented the negative SEO for one of my friend's website. Negative SEO is in the manner of 301 redirection to the original site. I have suggested reporting abuse to the hosting provider, complaining to DMCA, tried Rewrite Condition on .htaccess file but still...

I'm starting to think my site has been hit with negative SEO....Is it even possible to locate negative SEO in Google Search Console that may possibly be affecting organic traffic? if so, how?

For example, PBN backlinks seller giving the report with domain list and the buyer purposely or unknowingly used toxic links for building tier2. What kind of effects will be on buyer money sites because of toxic tier 2? What kind of effects will be on PBN? Expecting answers from all kinds of...

My website was hacked a month ago, over a thousand spam pages were created. I restored the whole host. But thousands of spam back links are being generated with spam anchor texts linking to those pages (that are now non-exiting after I restored) My back link profile is fucked because of 15k...