Negative SEO Attack Vector #7: Bad Links Attack

Reads: NSEO Attack Vector: #7 - Bad Links Attack. Description: A landscape digital display of a world map, in various shades of green (dark background, brighter outlines etc.). Has two horizontal bars of text across the map background at approximately 1 3rd and 2 3rds down the image, that read: 'NSEO Attack Vector: #7' and 'Bad Links Attack'

Its name says it all – it’s a matter of getting your pages or site punished, for seeming to have manipulative links. It’s probably the most known and talked about form of Negative SEO.It’s also far less effective than people believe.The reality is – Google do ignore a large number of links automatically.So weird links…

Negative SEO Attack Vector #7: Bad Links Attack

Negative SEO Attack Vector #2: Canonical Link Attack

Reads: NSEO Attack Vector: #2 - Canonical link attack. Description: A landscape digital display of a world map, in various shades of green (dark background, brighter outlines etc.). Has two horizontal bars of text across the map background at approximately 1 3rd and 2 3rds down the image, that read: 'NSEO Attack Vector: #2' and 'Canonical link attack'

Like several other Negative SEO or adverse SEO attacks, Canonical Link Attacks aren’t really about single strikes doing massive damage.  Instead, such approaches are about wasting resources, complicating analysis and dirtying the victim’s data. In this case – it’s causing Search Engine Bots to request, crawl and index a number of URLs that shouldn’t really…

Negative SEO Attack Vector #2: Canonical Link Attack