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- Is Black Hat SEO being applied against my site?
- I do have an affiliate website that has been ranking rather well over the last 4 years. I got hit in the June algorithm update. In general, we really did not do much that does not align with Google's general guidelines.
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- We did audit the site and we found
- 1- A site that has copied all of our site's content, we DMCAd the site and it was taken offline.
- 2- We had quite a number of backlinks and we disavowed the spammy ones.
- 3- We checked for duplicate content on our site
- 4- We did freshen up most of the content
- Regardless of that, we have been on a downfall since June. I cant really think of anything else that we can do.
- I have two questions
- 1- If a competitor is somehow applying Negative SEO, what else should I look at ?
- 2- See the below please
- I am signed up for Google alerts every time my site is mentioned somewhere. I have been getting these strange alerts that mention my site on lets say a Site called spamSite1.com. When I click on that Google alert link it takes me to spamSite2.com and there is no notion of my website at all on spamSite2.com .
- A few things to note
- A - The Spamsites are normally a one page wordpress site.
- B - SpamSite1.com and spamSite2.com are are always different sites. I.e. the site1 mention in the google alerts is never Site2. Site1 keeps coming up with new domain names in the alerts.
- C- I checked the source and there is no mention of my site name or URL
- D- My site name is not a generic word, so it is not a coincidence
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- E- The final one page wordpress site does look legit and it is a landing page related to my affiliate business, with valid affiliate IDs "not mine".\
- F- A few these issues redirect directly to the target URL of my affiliate links - with another affiliate ID set. I.e. I click on the link in the alert which is let's say Spammylink1.com and takes me to LegitBusiness.com with the affiliate ID that is not mine in the browser bar.
- F - There are multiple different affiliate IDs that I could discover, so it is not just one affiliate or at least it does not appear to be so
- G- IMPORTANT If I do google the title of the Google alert as is with my brand name in it, I can see the site in question ranking first page above fold. This is SpammyLink1 which when clicked redirects to SpammyLink2. I have no idea how Google does index and rank the page when it redirects immediately to a site where there is no notion of my site.
- I have no idea how Google sees my site in the spamSite1.com to start with, as I never clicked on of those links mentioned when I cant see it. I am also not sure what the effect if any on my rankings is.
- Please let me know if you need me to clarify things.
- P.S. I am NOT sure if this is allowed here or not. But I am willing to pay a competent expert to help me with this. If this is NOT allowed, please do not delete my post, I will remove this statement .
- Regards
- Hey, sounds tricky. what about your anchor profile? Might be too aggressive? regarding spamSite2.com, maybe it works with a redirect? then you wouldnt be able to see your url in the source code.
- I do have an affiliate website that has been ranking rather well over the last 4 years. I got hit in the June algorithm update. In general, we really did not do much that does not align with Google's general guidelines.
- We did audit the site and we found
- 1- A site that has copied all of our site's content, we DMCAd the site and it was taken offline.
- 2- We had quite a number of backlinks and we disavowed the spammy ones.
- 3- We checked for duplicate content on our site
- 4- We did freshen up most of the content
- Regardless of that, we have been on a downfall since June. I cant really think of anything else that we can do.
- I have two questions
- 1- If a competitor is somehow applying Negative SEO, what else should I look at ?
- 2- See the below please
- I am signed up for Google alerts every time my site is mentioned somewhere. I have been getting these strange alerts that mention my site on lets say a Site called spamSite1.com. When I click on that Google alert link it takes me to spamSite2.com and there is no notion of my website at all on spamSite2.com .
- A few things to note
- A - The Spamsites are normally a one page wordpress site.
- B - SpamSite1.com and spamSite2.com are are always different sites. I.e. the site1 mention in the google alerts is never Site2. Site1 keeps coming up with new domain names in the alerts.
- C- I checked the source and there is no mention of my site name or URL
- D- My site name is not a generic word, so it is not a coincidence
- E- The final one page wordpress site does look legit and it is a landing page related to my affiliate business, with valid affiliate IDs "not mine".\
- F- A few these issues redirect directly to the target URL of my affiliate links - with another affiliate ID set. I.e. I click on the link in the alert which is let's say Spammylink1.com and takes me to LegitBusiness.com with the affiliate ID that is not mine in the browser bar.
- F - There are multiple different affiliate IDs that I could discover, so it is not just one affiliate or at least it does not appear to be so
- G- IMPORTANT If I do google the title of the Google alert as is with my brand name in it, I can see the site in question ranking first page above fold. This is SpammyLink1 which when clicked redirects to SpammyLink2. I have no idea how Google does index and rank the page when it redirects immediately to a site where there is no notion of my site.
- I have no idea how Google sees my site in the spamSite1.com to start with, as I never clicked on of those links mentioned when I cant see it. I am also not sure what the effect if any on my rankings is.
- Please let me know if you need me to clarify things.
- P.S. I am NOT sure if this is allowed here or not. But I am willing to pay a competent expert to help me with this. If this is NOT allowed, please do not delete my post, I will remove this statement .
- Regards
- Your case is very similar to many cases I've personally seen.
- In june they HAND targeted several niches. They demoted several high profile sites in specific niches.
- Of course they left Quora and friends at the top.
- Theres something fishy going on if you know what I mean.
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