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I'd love to get some discussion on this. What are your thoughts? What would you do to combat the issue at hand?
My idea to combat negative SEO is to use to .htaccess to block the negative SEO links or rather send the visitors aka spiders back to the original sites using a 301. I haven't tried this yet but it seems logical to me.
I don't know how logical this is considering the fact that there are usually thousands of spam links coming in at your site, generally at the same time. It just doesn't seem reasonable to do what you are suggesting.
Well, you need some kind of a white list of those few legit links you have now and 301 other sites dynamically by reading their referers. This could help especially for new small business sites that have only a bunch of links. Just think twice before you are saying that I'm not reasonable.
Hey Tad, thanks for the reply. How would you suggest going about this? At this point in time, I've tracked well over 1,000 spam links with a single anchor text to my site that this negative SEO'er did, so it seems like that could get quite messy really quick.
How many legit links do you have already on this site? In case there aren't that many and they don't change too fast you could set up a white list for the time of the negative SEO attack and redirect all other links for a limited time period.
Without showing the actual domain, its really hard to analyze and know whether this drop is solely from the attack or if anything connected to the site contributed.
Rand, Yeah I understand, someone is clearly attempting to performing negative SEO on the site regardless though. Links have been found to validate that. I'll keep people update here as well as on the blog as to if the site rebounds, and what happens down the road.