1/12/2016 0 Comments Negative SEO - A RealityThank you, Dorian (Coffee-Break), for bringing this to our attention. My traffic has also been falling drastically recently.
I checked my backlinks in my Webmaster Tools and found the same problem you describe here. And I have more info on things I had discovered that had lead me to decide to upload a disavow list to Google. My discovery confirms your findings. Many domains with backlinks to my hubs looked very similar in formatting and style. Could this mean that its all from the same source of development? Many had spun content that didnt make sense when read. Some had entirely garbage text, not normal English sentences. These are definitely NOT sites we want backlinking to us. Is this a plan to destroy HubPages? Its looking more and more likely as I dig deeper. I even checked a few of those domains with whois and found that those domains were created in September 2014. Very interesting. Makes one wonder, doesnt it? So heres what I did. Ill be specific so as to help anyone who wants to disavow backlinks too. The actual list of pages containing backlinks would have been too many to handle. There were thousands of them. So I downloaded just the top-level domain names by clicking Download this table from the list of links to my site. I first had to download to an Excel file, and then I saved that into a text file since that is what Google needs for the disavow file. The format is one URL or domain per line. If we specify just a domain name then we need to put domain: in front of it. This is all clearly explained on Googles Disavow Backlinks page at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487 I knew I had to be careful and not just disavow everything. Most https://moz.com/ of these were legitimate traffic sources such as HubPages, Yahoo, Bing, Pinterst, and yes, even Google (but of course). We definitely dont want to disavow those. After breaking it down to a manageable list of 119, I looked at each site to make a final decision. Thats how I discovered what I mentioned above. As I eyeballed each site, one was an Amazon partner site. That goes to show we have to be careful what we disavow. This task of making a final list is time-consuming indeed, but its very important to verify Houts Graphics map the good from the bad. Anyway, I completed making a final list in a text file of those I want to disavow and I uploaded it to Google. Now its a matter of waiting. Google says it can take a number of weeks. http://hubpages.com/community/forum/125928/negative-seo---a-reality
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