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Web spam attacks

by IndieHaxor12

I've built a website over the last couple of years, but now it's being attacked with 1000s of spam links (negative seo, google hacking). This causes rankings to plummet (lost 40% already). It had like 10.000 legit links before.

These spam links started appearing out of nowhere, but I suppose a competitor is doing it. Is blogging basically dead?

because anyone can create 1000s of spam links from a domain

on July 5, 2020
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    If you think that those backlinks are hurting your rankings, there's a way to tell Google to ignore them (disavowing backlinks is the term-of-art).

    Create a text file with malicious domains and upload it to the Google Search Console. Be careful because this is a nuclear option.

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      Is it possible to block the bad backlinks? (I'm using Netlify)

      The links show up in google search console and the disavow tool removes them, but about 100 at a time. They added over 10.000 bad backlinks

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