{"id":240,"date":"2019-01-16T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2019-01-10T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:04:28","slug":"how-can-you-tell-if-youve-got-negative-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/how-can-you-tell-if-youve-got-negative-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Tell If You’ve Got Negative SEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In any field, there will be unscrupulous people who use underhanded tactics to get ahead. The web is no different, especially where search engine optimization is concerned. There exists a ton of black hat SEO tactics that people try to use to get ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of them don\u2019t work. <\/span><\/p>\n

See, even if Google isn\u2019t keen on sharing <\/span>exactly <\/b>how their algorithms work, they\u2019ve made no secret of the fact that they\u2019re committed to stamping out spam wherever it surfaces. Updates such as the one made to the Penguin algorithm in 2012 were specifically aimed at penalizing sites that engaged in strategies like manipulative link building. <\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, Google itself has said in the past that<\/span> there\u2019s almost nothing a competitor can do to harm someone\u2019s SEO<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

So…that\u2019s it, right? Google said you\u2019re safe, so there\u2019s nothing to worry about? Not exactly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though negative SEO is incredibly rare, it <\/span>is <\/b>still something you should pay attention to. Left unchecked, it <\/span>can <\/b>do some serious damage to your PageRank. The good news is that it\u2019s quite easy to defend against the most common tactics.<\/span><\/p>\n

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