Preventing a website from being hacked
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:11 am
As seen in the above comment shared on the r/SEO subreddit, some users say that disavowing works for Negative SEO attacks.
But what do you do when someone generates thousands of toxic links pointing to your site? You'll have to disavow them through the same process of fixing a manual Google action.
In any case, you have to manually access each link, collect them according to criteria, and disavow them .
How Fake Link Building Works
Below are two examples of Negative SEO campaigns based on toxic link generation.
Example #1:
Back in October 2018, within a span of three months, a small singapore telegram data business experienced a sudden increase in the number of backlinks pointing to its website. The number of backlinks increased dramatically from 275 to 341,824.
This unnatural spike prompted manual action from Google. The webmaster then had to conduct a thorough backlink audit and submit reconsideration requests to Google along with the disavow files.
It took two requests for review to get the sanction lifted, and it was removed in August 2019, almost a year later.
In the second request, the webmaster pointed out that it was a Negative SEO attack, which may have helped to clarify things and get the penalty removed. To this day, the ranking is still being restored.
But what do you do when someone generates thousands of toxic links pointing to your site? You'll have to disavow them through the same process of fixing a manual Google action.
In any case, you have to manually access each link, collect them according to criteria, and disavow them .
How Fake Link Building Works
Below are two examples of Negative SEO campaigns based on toxic link generation.
Example #1:
Back in October 2018, within a span of three months, a small singapore telegram data business experienced a sudden increase in the number of backlinks pointing to its website. The number of backlinks increased dramatically from 275 to 341,824.
This unnatural spike prompted manual action from Google. The webmaster then had to conduct a thorough backlink audit and submit reconsideration requests to Google along with the disavow files.
It took two requests for review to get the sanction lifted, and it was removed in August 2019, almost a year later.
In the second request, the webmaster pointed out that it was a Negative SEO attack, which may have helped to clarify things and get the penalty removed. To this day, the ranking is still being restored.