Negative SEO on my website?

24 Oct 16 4:23 am

Hey, for this you have sent a mail to the web site owner for the removal of the spammy links. This issue may lead to blocking your websites against Google.

24 Oct 16 10:07 pm

david d wrote:Thanks for the replies.

The key points is that these spammy links have been built BY YourTango, NOT BY ME. For example, they have placed a link to "www.mantranslated.com/article-on-yourtango/", instead of "www.yourtango.com/article-on-yourtango/"

Weird huh? Incompetence on the part of their VA?

I clicked on the sites you mentioned above but I could not find your weblinks on those pages. What I mean is if you are building backlinks, you may have left a link on sites that are considered spammy. These sites send your links to more spammy sites like you've mentioned above. It is quite hard to trace it unless you have recorded all the sites you've build your links to.

08 Nov 16 3:58 pm

I'm glad if you have solved the issue, however, if this happens again in future, you should know that you have ONLY 2 options:

1. Fix the damage (manually contact webmasters to remove the backlinks or use a paid service, such as DTOX, which can be very expensive and I really wouldn't recommend it for small sites, AND, once you try to remove as many as possible, you should DISAVOW them in GWMT. That's all you can do.)
2. Abandon your site and start from scratch.

It really boils down to those 2 options, and unfortunately, there's nothing more you can do about it... Negative SEO is probably the worst thing that can happen to anyone...

By the way, there is a third, "secret" option that you have, but this one is exclusive to a very small minority of webmasters.

Wanna know what it is? :D

It's simple - you need to have a buddy who works in Google. Call them and tell them to kick their a** ;-)

david d wrote:I emailed yourtango.com. I didn't get a reply but it looks like they fixed it overnight - the dragplus links now go to them instead of me (as you've found out).

I have screenshots of the source code showing the wrong links but I'm not sure how to attach an image here. Anyway, doesn't matter. The main thing is that it was a mistake rather than anything malicious. Some poor VA has had to rewrite >1000 article links!

Thanks very much for the input.

25 Dec 16 6:13 am

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13 Feb 17 10:24 am

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