how to fight negative seo spamms against my website

I have over 1 million spammy links pointing at just one domain. Won't using a 404 be too much of a load like Barry-x is talking about above?

Here is one faggot colleague you must block.

xxgasm.com

The real problem is it seems this has been happening awhile and you haven't caught on until the traffic drop trigger right? So lesson learned to keep an eye out.

Have you seen a rise in rankings over the last year, then a drop? The reason I ask is because some of the links on some of those domains might be helping you and any action on your part could cause a drop in rankings no matter what you do.

Example: oletravel.net w/ 125k backlinks to you is offline, your rankings are down, they could have been helping you.

I asked about the patterns in their links to you for a reason, you have certain options if their link patterns contain non existent subdirectories on your site, if they're really serious/or knowledgeable about damaging you this will be the case.

If you're worried about server load get cloudflare and use their custom 404 page option and add your home page code there or a nice keyword rich link to your homepage.

Disavow the domains, not individual urls, and send to Google ASAP

domain:oletravel.net
domain:hystoretechnologies.com

Disavowing a full domain goes through quick, a couple weeks or less, and enough submissions from others and Google penalized the bad domain, that's why Nico-T says not to report! (JK ).

There are tons of other options and someone will always disagree or have a better way but if you're stressed and are low on server resources follow what I said above as your first steps .

*Posted from my phone

horrible advice. You are doing googles job. Google is smart enough to not let those domains count. I've experienced this first hand. Some sites of mine were hit hard some time ago, and even i hesitated 'should i use the disavow tool'? I never did and eventually my sites came back.

That tool is there to take advantage of desperate webmasters.

Leave it. Hang in there. Google doesn't need you to report sites, they use you.

Keep building and don't ever get in that luring bed with the devil

Spoken like a true blackhat

Like a car thief telling people not to report car thefts

Do what blade wire mention. Create Pages for every error requested. That way the spider will not stop and file reports for missing pages... instead, it will visit your domain and you can point it to your best content.

Thanks for the advice and write up. The problem of the spammy backlinks has been going on awhile but I'm not completely certain it is the cause of the traffic drop. I'm not saying it isn't just that I'm not 100% convinced.

Google should know a clone when it sees one. It's an obvious blackhat trick that their also should easily be able to screen out - if we here talk about it freely and know all about clones then so do they.

I believe google looks at traffic TOS and bounce rate and surfer metrics and values them more than backlinks, especially spammy ones. That's why I'm reluctant to use the disavow tool. I've been reading about other people's thoughts and experiences on it and none of them were ever favorable.

I guess it would be nice if google came out and told us not to worry about negative seo and spammy links ... the same way they tell us not to build links of any kind. I don't trust them enough.

we have two options

add 301 rewrite rule in apache or nginx, or just include particular urls to rewrite or just convert all 404 erorrs to 301 redirects

and redirect this shit somewhere

question is

where we should redirect it

imho the safest way is redirect it out of your domain
google index only final destination of 301 redirect

everything between spammy page and destination is just a neutral bridge (in theory)

so make such bridge in your domain, and get this shit out of your website (to your competition, for example )


or.. second option

create doorway page with links to your website, as bladewire advised, but i think it is too risky
i don't think its a good idea, spammers do this way and they take the risk of google punishment

Cops have better things to do than bust criminals.

Criminals have better things to do than get caught

Disavow tool is yet powerfull but also dangerous if you use it wrong.

99% off all .ru .pl domains can be blocked.
If you are not sure, simply use tools as semrush to check the domain.

Also block all the chinese mofos that that have been born lately. See .ml .gq .tk .cf .ga
This list is only from past 24 hours.

So what? It's the responsibility of the site owner to protect his site from being hacked. If other people getting fucked because of neglecting webmasters.... fuck em... and report...

I am seeing exactly same thing. 15th traffic normal in search console, 17th traffic halved, and it was a big amount.