I am being black hat SEO'd by another company. What should I do?
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Hi There,
I found out about 6 months ago that I have been getting black hat SEO'd by another company.
There are around 350 spammy domains pointing to my home page and product page.
I have disavowed a lot of them. Is there anything else I can do?
http://bareblends.com.au/the-optimum-9400-blender
Thanks!
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Disavow those bad links and seek to increase the number of good reputable links you have. I checked out the url, you have a great looking site!
I bet you could relatively easily get some influential health food bloggers or magazine editors to write about your products. Food's relatively easy to get links for because you can send out 1000s of samples to influencers at a very tiny cost. This is a time honored PR method that still applies in the digital age. If people like the food and the message, they will many times write about it. I'd suggest approaching those types of influencers, telling them the story of your brand and potentially sampling them. If they like your product, chances are they will write about it and you might get some great backlinks out of it. Key is you cannot pay for those links, they must be freely given because the editor/blogger/writer likes your product and/or brand. Best of luck!
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I've been followin the "Negative SEO" world for years - http://www.canuckseo.com/index.php?s=%22negative+seo%22 - will lead to our own blog posts on same...
Suffice it to say - please tho do read some other experts and how they say to fight off same - the best tool you have is the Google disavow one - oh, don't forget that BING has one too, eh!
Hang in. Stay on top by using a great very functional IBL tool too like majestic too...and keep on the disavow trail...is the best thing I can offer today....
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Hi Oscar,
Are you noticing anything negative in terms of your phrases slipping? The reason I ask, is that Google is pretty smart when it comes to links, and someone just building spammy links isn't usually enough to draw a penalty on its own. If Google sees a few hundred spammy links appear overnight (figuratively speaking) then they are likely to just ignore them.
By all means disavow these bad links, but focus more on getting new links - be careful how you do this though. I have clients who have thousands upon thousands of low quality / spammy links, but the fact that I keep the link profiles topped up with high quality links, keeps penalties away.
-Andy
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You're pretty much doing what you can. Continue to disavow and continue to build high quality links. The stronger your link profile, the less likely you are to receive a penalty.
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