{"id":2711,"date":"2019-06-06T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:30:50","slug":"negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative SEO Attacked And Lost Rank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"sej-article-head\">In the event that your repudiates aren&#8217;t working, in the event that your rankings aren&#8217;t returning, at that point, you should stop and think that the genuine issue is something different. On the off chance that denying low-quality connections does not work, the arrangement is to recognize that the issue lies somewhere else. The genuine issue is likely in the site itself, not outside of it. Recognizing this truth is to venture out to rectify the genuine issue that is influencing your rankings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"sej-article entrycontent \">\n<div class=\"sej-sthumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.searchenginejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/negative-seo-fix-760x400.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.searchenginejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/negative-seo-fix-760x400.png 1x, https:\/\/cdn.searchenginejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/negative-seo-fix-1520x800.png 1.5x\" alt=\"Attacked by Negative SEO? Lost Rankings? Read This\" width=\"760\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sej-article-content gototop-pos \">\n<div id=\"scheader\" class=\"media sej-card\">\n<div class=\"scdetails media-body\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f244a0a31cd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f244a0a31cd\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#This_Tool_Makes_it_Easier_for_You_to_Rank_in_Position\" >This Tool Makes it Easier for You to Rank in Position<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Disavow_Tool_of_Limited_Usefulness\" >Disavow Tool of Limited Usefulness<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Googler_Gary_Illyes_Has_Never_Seen_a_Real_Case_of_Negative_SEO\" >Googler Gary Illyes Has Never Seen a Real Case of Negative SEO<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Get_your_website_unstuck_now_How_Click_the_Omaha_SEO_link_below\" >Get your website unstuck now! How? \nClick the Omaha SEO link below!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Do_Link_Related_Penalties_Exist\" >Do Link Related Penalties Exist?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Is_Negative_SEO_Real\" >Is Negative SEO Real?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Scapegoats_and_Red_Herrings\" >Scapegoats and Red Herrings<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/negative-seo-attacked-and-you-feel-you-lost-rank\/#Negative_SEO_The_Takeaway\" >Negative SEO: The Takeaway<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"card-h\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"This_Tool_Makes_it_Easier_for_You_to_Rank_in_Position\"><\/span>This Tool Makes it Easier for You to Rank in Position<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Google&#8217;s Featured Snippets are prime real estate in the SERPs, but if you want to capture them it&#8217;s hard to know where to start. This powerful tool identifies and organizes Featured Snippet data for your keywords making it easier for you to rank in Position 0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Someone asked me about using the disavow tool to combat negative <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/\">SEO<\/a> and regain lost rankings. The following is a detailed explanation of what is typically involved with finding a solution for a negative SEO attack.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disavow_Tool_of_Limited_Usefulness\"><\/span>Disavow Tool of Limited Usefulness<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>John Mueller posted in Reddit that many inside Google feel that the disavow tool is not necessary. The reason is because they feel that Google\u2019s already discounting spammy or irrelevant links. The tool isn\u2019t contributing to a solution since the links are already being ignored.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s also the reason why Google purposely makes the tool hard to find, because they feel it\u2019s not necessary. John Mueller said that explicitly, that Google purposely makes the disavow tool difficult to find.<\/p>\n<p>Google actively discourages the use of the disavow tool and the ONLY reason it exists is because the SEO community BEGGED Google for a disavow tool. Google resisted offering a disavow tool, but after several months relented and offered it.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is not something Google forced on SEOs. The tool is something SEOs begged Google to provide.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Googlers have repeatedly stated that the proper use of the disavow tool is when you know you have bad links, as in you\u2019re responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Googlers do not encourage publishers to use the disavow tool to fight negative SEO. Why would they? Googler\u2019s don\u2019t even believe in negative SEO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Googler_Gary_Illyes_Has_Never_Seen_a_Real_Case_of_Negative_SEO\"><\/span>Googler Gary Illyes Has Never Seen a Real Case of Negative SEO<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>I recently wrote this (citation below):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGary Illyes stated at PubCon Florida 2019 that out of hundreds of negative SEO reports he has examined, none of them were real. The reason the sites experienced ranking drops were due to other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Gary affirmed that they\u2019re making real-time Penguin even better but that publishers should not worry about spam links or perceived negative SEO attacks. Gary specifically mentioned adult links as nothing to be worried about.\u201d<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 144px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 109px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 990.8px; height: 109px;\">\n<h3 class=\"et_pb_module_header\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Get_your_website_unstuck_now_How_Click_the_Omaha_SEO_link_below\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #3366ff;\">Get your website unstuck now! How?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #3366ff;\">Click the Omaha SEO link below!<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 35px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 990.8px; text-align: center; height: 35px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Omaha SEO<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_Link_Related_Penalties_Exist\"><\/span>Do Link Related Penalties Exist?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yes, link related penalties still exist. But no, random low quality scraper links don\u2019t cause penalties. <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha-seo.com\/blog\/2549-explanation-why-google-ignoring-your-links\/\">Google is ignoring low quality links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Link related manual actions are real and they are still happening. It \u201cseems\u201d like there have been a lot of link related manual actions handed out from March through April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>There was quite a bit of chatter about those in Google Webmaster Forums, as well as publishers coming to me for help in removing those penalties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"summitad-wrap\">\n<div class=\"summitad-text\">\n<p><strong>Block fraudulent clicks on your Google Ads.<\/strong><br \/>\nAutomatically protect your ads from competitors, bots, click farms and other forms of click fraud. Simple setup. Start your free trial today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I believe that understanding link distance ranking algorithms could help people better understand why Google is so confident about their ability to neutralize low quality links.<\/p>\n<p>Link distance ranking algorithms are among the newest techniques for analyzing links in a search engine. Google and other researchers have published research papers and patents about it.<\/p>\n<p>Reading about these algorithms may help publishers gain an understanding of why Google is so confident about being able to neutralize the influence of low quality links.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_Negative_SEO_Real\"><\/span>Is Negative SEO Real?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I believe that what some people regard as negative SEO is not really negative SEO. Many sites accumulate low quality links, including adult type links. It\u2019s a normal pattern on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Spammers (and white hat SEOs) believe that linking out to high quality sites will help their sites appear less spammy. But if you have just a little understanding of link analysis, then you\u2019ll know that the search engines are not only two steps ahead of that practice, they\u2019re actually about a thousand miles ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to negative SEO? I believe it is possible, but not in the way that people currently think it\u2019s done. I don\u2019t dare share any more details than that.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that negative SEO is a convenient scapegoat to avoid acknowledging problems with site itself. Many have approached me about negative SEO that could not be resolved through the disavow tool. A review has often revealed that the problem was within the site and not due to negative SEO.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scapegoats_and_Red_Herrings\"><\/span>Scapegoats and Red Herrings<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve been approached by people who claim to be affected by Negative SEO and upload huge disavow lists every month. Yet they never, never find relief, their rankings never improve.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s like rubbing olive oil on your broken arm with the belief that if you keep on rubbing it just a little more the arm will heal. But it never heals because rubbing it does nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody\u2019s baby is beautiful and well behaved to the parent. The baby is perceived differently by everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem affecting the site tends to become more evident to someone looking at the site from the outside.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Negative_SEO_The_Takeaway\"><\/span>Negative SEO: The Takeaway<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If your disavows aren\u2019t working, if your rankings aren\u2019t returning, then you should stop and consider that the real problem is something else.<\/p>\n<p>If disavowing low quality links does not work, the solution is to acknowledge that the problem lies elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem is likely in the website itself, not outside of it. Acknowledging this reality is to take the first step toward correcting the real problem that\u2019s affecting your rankings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via: https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/negative-seo-lost-rankings\/310487\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m28!1m12!1m3!1d50145.52267239351!2d-96.06936521284837!3d41.216982725960186!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m13!3e0!4m5!1s0x87938daaf6680195%3A0x8dde7c2114a39db!2sHampton%20Inn%20Omaha%20Midtown-Aksarben%20Area%2C%20South%2072nd%20Street%2C%20Omaha%2C%20Nebraska!3m2!1d41.245655899999996!2d-96.0234503!4m5!1s0x87938c3d0c92fcb1%3A0x98cf112f2e9fe028!2s5223%20Grover%20St%2C%20Omaha%2C%20NE%2068106!3m2!1d41.2266913!2d-95.99608579999999!5e0!3m2!1sfil!2sus!4v1653563960747!5m2!1sfil!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the event that your repudiates aren&#8217;t working, in the event that your rankings aren&#8217;t returning, at that point, you should stop and think that the genuine issue is something different. 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