What is Negative SEO?

[JeffreyJacobs]

I think if you are doing white hat seo then also there are chances of getting penalized cause of this negative seo-

 

[Joseph_Hill]

Yeah this a nice information about negative SEO one must know. Generally such practices are being followed by those websites which are having a really high competition.

 

[James Hailey]

We must have to be aware of such situations, as if someone is doing negative SEO against us then at starting we will get bulk number of backlinks but when Google will come to know, these links will get deleted.

 

[aronmatt3]

This is a bad side of SEO, even if you work hard with dedication, still there are chances of your website getting affected due to some competitors mischief, but at the same time Google has extended his help with disavow tool.

 

[Anthony M. Dyer]

According to me negative SEO means unethical techniques that we follow to boost our site ranking drastically in very less time by breaking rules and regulations of search engines but this will helpful for a temporary period.

 

[BloodMaster]

Are such things really exists? hmy: Thanks for sharing this useful information friend.

Yes, Such thing is exits. And many newbie are use this kind of thing to get their site quickly in ranked.

 

[JakePeter]

JakePeter

Yeah! You are right but these techniques does not give them benefits for a long time. So better is try to build your own links and remove spammy links from the website to get ranked on Google.

 

[boysingh]

boysingh

This is right, in some cases there are chances that it can give you the rankings, BUT it's a temporary result only, because you are still not sure that if Google made some Algorithm updates again, it might still be affected and your rankings will be gone like -"poof!"

 

[Anthony M. Dyer]

I think if you are doing white hat seo then also there are chances of getting penalized cause of this negative seo-

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It is really nice information about negative SEO. Will you please tell how to control it.I have some idea about it. My site gives information regarding it.

 

[john_lee]

Negative Seo inludes unatural way of link building like purchasing links from the website and uysing automated tools to create backlinks.

 

[sarataylor]

To sum it up in one sentence, Negative SEO is any malicious activity undertaken in an effort to lower a website’s search engine rankings. Sites have been known to use this technique on their competition in order to rank higher for certain keywords.

 

[Divya_Rai]

Negative seo is done for competitor website to decrease their popularity on the web.

 

[aksel]

In my point of view negative SEO indicates dishonest methods that people follow to enhance their website position significantly in very less time by splitting laws and rules of search-engines but this can ideal for a short-term period.

 

[jasonnathan90]

If you wish to know effective information about negative Search Engine Optimization, you will get adequate and essential information here. Such techniques are applied to get higher rank.

 

[JohnWashington]

Negative means the practice of trying to get a competitors website banned from google or de-ranked the sites using the links that are of bad quality.Negative SEO is very effective to to de-ranked any website.

 

[jameels]

When you create back links cheap and unrelated websites it is call Negative seo. before Google update most optimizer use Negative seo. now a days Negative seo is very difficult for optimizer.

 

[JoeHamilton]

The process of demoting a webpage or a website of our competitors from SERPs.

 

[HeatherRomero]

The process of demoting a webpage or a website is called a negative SEO.

 

[milksheikh]

I find negative SEO as SEO that does more harm to your SEO then help it at all. I usually go to people who manually do seo.

 

[Linda W. Larose]

As if somebody is performing bad SEO against us then at starting we will get quantity of backlinks however when Google will come to know, these links will get removed, we should have to keep yourself updated of such situations.

 

[RichWilliams]

Whenever someone buys and points low quality links to website to decrease the ratings of the mentioned website by creating it to be blocked or get a manual motion (fee) from Google. It is called negative SEO.

 

[fabrizio]

Negative SEO is a technique where we could try to hurt competitors by setting up a low-quality site and linking to them – but that’s a total black hat tactic, and it wont get long-term benefits.