The ArcLite Guide to Negative SEO
It's complicated…
Essentially, any malicious action which leaves the attacker with full control of the target website can be deemed to fall under the header “Hack Attack.” And while hacking for negative SEO purposes is still a relatively uncommon practice, the number of instances of this vector has increased noticeably during the past couple of years. Breakdown…
The Venomous Phoenix is able to utilize a number of other Negative SEO attack vectors, such as the Canonical Link Attack, Content Hijacking, and even Impersonation, to create a multi-prong offensive which can carry truly devastating effects for its target website. At the base-level, this type of attack is designed to transfer a Google Manual…
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…