What is Negative SEO ?

[Danish]

I have heard that Negative seo is not good for serach engine ranking but how to know that we have done negative seo.
What is negative seo?

 

[richardw]

Here is a link that will explain it all http://www.highervisibility.com/blog/what-google-has-to-say-about-negative-seo/

 

[kurt harris]

Negative SEO is usually pursued by competitors, in order to increase their own rankings, by strategically lowering the rankings of their more popular competitors.

 

[tayloralina]

Negative SEO checks usually by competitors, in order to increase their own rankings, by lowering the rankings of strategic rivals more popular. Why do it? Well, being a top rated online in your niche usually means more traffic, which usually translates into greater sales and profits. Some sites have begun to up their own business where they offer SEO services negative.

 

[MikeQ]

Negative SEO is all about decreasing ranking of your competitors..

 

[Trisha Sue]

Negative SEO is usually pursued by competitors, in order to increase their own rankings, by strategically lowering the rankings of their more popular competitors. Why do this? Well, being the top ranking website in your niche typically means greater traffic which usually translates into bigger sales and profits. Some websites have even begun their own business where they offer negative SEO services.

 

[Alex Thompson]

Hi...Negative SEO is usually pursued by competitors, in order to increase their own rankings, by strategically lowering the rankings of their more popular competitors. Why do this? Well, being the top ranking website in your niche typically means greater traffic which usually translates into bigger sales and profits. Some websites have even begun their own business where they offer negative SEO services. Thank you..

 

[The Root]

There are many determinants ...Including:
External Links randomly
Spam campaigns large and frequent

 

[petersmith5544]

Negative SEO is the reverse of search engine optimisation. The aim of search engine optimisation is to increase a site's visibility in the SERPs. With Negative SEO, the aim of the procedure is to reduce a page's rankings in the search results. This article includes information on how negative SEO can be done, and some of the steps you can do to prevent it from happening to you. Or at least reduce the impact.

 

[NileLars]

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I don't think that negative SEO can possible. You can certain write dummy or total fraud review about your competitor but you can not drop ranking of your competitors with activity...

 

[AndrewFlintoff]

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I don't think that negative SEO can possible. I think you are talking about negative review posting. You can add negative review with your competitor but you can't drop ranking with your user. You can certain increase ranking so automatically your competitor dropped ranking but directly it is not possible.

 

[richard84]

Negative SEO is the practice of trying to destroy your competitors’ rankings in the SERPs – for example by purchasing large amounts of spammy links to the site, damaging their link profile.

 

[bedfordseo]

Negative SEO attacks can come in a few forms. Generally, negative SEO refers to when one website buys links and points them at a competitor’s website in an effort to torpedo their rankings. Other instances of negative SEO have included such tactics as hacking a website to inflict some sort of malicious damage on a website, review bombing (pointing a large number of 5-star reviews at a business so it appears they paid for them), or simply by reporting another website’s “black hat” tactics to Google.