Extracting content from a website and creating duplicates
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 4:43 am
This practice is based on creating duplicates of websites or parts of their content, linking them and spreading the fake copies across the web.
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A question about an SEO attack using content duplication and website cloning. Click to view the thread in the Google Search Console Help Center.
4. Fake negative reviews about a website
This tactic can work to ruin a website's (or brand's) reputation, thus potentially leading to traffic drops.
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A thread in the Search Console Help Center about posting potentially fake reviews.
5. Fake requests to remove backlinks from a website
Attackers may target your backlink profile in an effort to harm your SERP rankings. phone code philippines They may impersonate you or pose as an agency on your behalf and contact webmasters to persuade them to remove links pointing to your site.
Some negative SEO practices go even further, such as sending DMCA takedown requests, although these are rare. The tactics below are the most common for negative SEO.
NOTE: The DMCA is a US copyright law that provides remedies for online service providers in the event of copyright infringement. Google has a special form for this.
It is important to emphasize that the very concept of negative SEO is debatable. Let us analyze the reasons.
Why negative SEO attacks can be difficult to detect and verify
Detecting and proving a negative SEO attack is tricky, especially if a site's backlink profile already contained a ton of toxic links and/or the content was poor.
Very often, webmasters believe that they are victims of a negative SEO attack. However, they do not take into account other conditions that could cause a drop in rankings, for example:
An update to Google's algorithms/Algorithm core update.
Being banned by Google's filtering algorithm.
Sometimes, these drops are mistaken for negative SEO. Marie Haynes , SEO Consultant at MarieHaynes.com, had this to say on the subject:
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A question about an SEO attack using content duplication and website cloning. Click to view the thread in the Google Search Console Help Center.
4. Fake negative reviews about a website
This tactic can work to ruin a website's (or brand's) reputation, thus potentially leading to traffic drops.
image.png
A thread in the Search Console Help Center about posting potentially fake reviews.
5. Fake requests to remove backlinks from a website
Attackers may target your backlink profile in an effort to harm your SERP rankings. phone code philippines They may impersonate you or pose as an agency on your behalf and contact webmasters to persuade them to remove links pointing to your site.
Some negative SEO practices go even further, such as sending DMCA takedown requests, although these are rare. The tactics below are the most common for negative SEO.
NOTE: The DMCA is a US copyright law that provides remedies for online service providers in the event of copyright infringement. Google has a special form for this.
It is important to emphasize that the very concept of negative SEO is debatable. Let us analyze the reasons.
Why negative SEO attacks can be difficult to detect and verify
Detecting and proving a negative SEO attack is tricky, especially if a site's backlink profile already contained a ton of toxic links and/or the content was poor.
Very often, webmasters believe that they are victims of a negative SEO attack. However, they do not take into account other conditions that could cause a drop in rankings, for example:
An update to Google's algorithms/Algorithm core update.
Being banned by Google's filtering algorithm.
Sometimes, these drops are mistaken for negative SEO. Marie Haynes , SEO Consultant at MarieHaynes.com, had this to say on the subject: