Negative SEO: How to identify it (and what to do)?

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Negative SEO is a “black hat” practice (used by competitors and malicious people in general) and can remove your website from Google.

By Fabio Lobo , published on 03/30/2023.
Anyone who works with content for the internet has certainly heard of the term SEO. What many may not know is the “evil twin” of this strategy, also known as negative SEO.

The truth is that many websites may be suffering from latvia number dataset SEO right now without having any knowledge of it.

And you, do you know what this term means and how to protect yourself from these attacks?

Keep reading and I'll explain!

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Index

What is negative SEO?
Who does negative SEO?
Negative SEO Practices
Impacts of an affected site
Duplicate content
Artificial or toxic links
Website not indexed
How to avoid negative SEO and protect a website from attacks?
Keep an eye on social media
Beware of copying content
Harmful backlinks should be rejected
Be careful with website security
Monitor website speed
Use SEO tools to your advantage
Google Search Console
Bing Webmaster Tools
Open Link Profiler
Ahrefs
Moz
Semrush
Pingdom
Other tools to combat negative SEO
Beware of negative SEO!
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What is negative SEO?
If SEO is a set of measures to place a given website in the top positions of search engines, negative SEO, a branch of black hat SEO , is the exact opposite.

But unlike the “good twin”, negative SEO is not an initiative of the website itself, of course.

This is a practice carried out by third parties, the purpose of which is precisely to tarnish the reputation and harm pages that usually appear at the top of search results .

Although absurd, the practice is more common than one might think, and there are many websites that are suffering attacks without even realizing that they are targets of this type of fraud.