Negative SEO - Still works in 2024?

[SirSearchALot]

Hey everyone,

What do you guys think, or do you have any experience with negative SEO? Does it still have an impact, or is it useless?

I remember someone did a negative SEO to our site by adding 500-1000 comments a day for a month with different profanity. This tanked the website for some time until we did a disavow. It took around two months to get to positions back.

Does Google understand that the site is spam and not consider it, or should we submit a disavow file?

 

[Ryuzaki]

There are methods involving links that aren’t simple nor should they be publicly shared. Mostly involving anchors, PBNs, or velocity of new and removed links.

There’s tons of other methods involving gaining entry to the backend and doing shady things like creating endless cloaked pages.

Yeah, it’s possible, even in the ways Google would have you think aren’t, but those aren’t as affective these days. There’s no harm in disavowing easy to find links if there’s a footprint you can use. For most types of automated spam it’s not necessary but for coordinated attacks, I would spend the time.

 

[Grim]

Great advice from Ryuzaki there. It's still a thing but Google has gotten better at excluding it on its own. If it's a recurring theme with exact match anchors and high velocity, then it's worth doing a disavow.

 

[jstover77]

Yup, still works if you know what you are doing. I've buried hundreds of pages (even big pubs at the page level) for my rep repair clients.

 

[secretagentdad]

Neg seo works better than positive seo at this point.
Neg auto complete works even more blatantly.
You can kick anyone out for everything but their brand keywords with 10 proxies and a chat gpt script....

Its way easier to trigger a penalty than rank a site.
Kinda fucked up if you ask me.

 

[eliquid]

Anything that worked in 2004, is working today