{"id":6413,"date":"2020-01-17T05:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2025-05-12T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:56:55","slug":"what-is-negative-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Negative SEO? How To Be Safe From Negative SEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the term <strong>&#8220;Negative SEO&#8221;, <\/strong>it is something that most of the people don&#8217;t want to talk about. There are also lots of misconceptions about this term. But, it is a good practice to always keep your eyes on your site from each and every perspective.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/google-algorithm-history\/penguin-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penguin Update (April 2012)<\/a><\/strong>, Google strictly looks for the manipulative links. Unusual black hat techniques are something Google does not like. So, your competitors may apply some of the black hat tactics to downrank your website. However, this happens in a very rare case.<\/p>\n<p>Is &#8220;Negative SEO&#8221; is still a good topic to talk about in 2020?<\/p>\n<p>What actually is this term, what are its main type and how to avoid negative SEO attacks? In this article, we will discuss Negative SEO and related terms in detail.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f2e7b342bde\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f2e7b342bde\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#What_is_Negative_SEO\" >What is Negative SEO?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Why_Would_Someone_Commit_Negative_SEO\" >Why Would Someone Commit Negative SEO?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#What_Does_Google_Say_About_Negative_SEO\" >What Does Google Say About Negative SEO?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Types_of_Negative_SEO\" >Types of Negative SEO<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Negative_On-Page_SEO\" >Negative On-Page SEO<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Excessive_Crawling\" >Excessive Crawling<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Content_Scraping\" >Content Scraping<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Hacking\" >Hacking<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#_Negative_Off-Page_SEO\" >\u00a0Negative Off-Page SEO<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Link_Farming\" >Link Farming\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Bad_Reviews\" >Bad Reviews<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Irrelevant_Link_Building\" >Irrelevant Link Building<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#How_to_Prevent_Yourself_from_Negative_SEO\" >How to Prevent Yourself from Negative SEO<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#1_Keep_Track_of_Your_Backlinks\" >1. Keep Track of Your Backlinks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#2_Keep_Checking_Duplicate_Content\" >2. Keep Checking Duplicate Content<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#3_Monitor_Your_Own_SEO_Strategy\" >3. Monitor Your Own SEO Strategy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#4_Secure_Your_Website_From_Malware\" >4. Secure Your Website From Malware<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#5_Check_Your_SERP_Ranking\" >5. Check Your SERP Ranking<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-negative-seo\/#Check_Out_This_infographic_by_YourSEOPickcom\" >Check Out This infographic by YourSEOPick.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Negative_SEO\"><\/span>What is Negative SEO?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para u-ltr u-text-align--start\">When someone performs an irrelevant activity on the website by using a black hat technique that is called negative SEO. It is the act of showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/seo-vs-ppc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">search engines<\/a> that a website is not relevant by following various off-page and on-page techniques. On the best way to perform negative SEO is by linking from the various low-quality websites with irrelevant anchor texts. Website owners can combat it by disavowing all low-quality backlinks.<\/p>\n<p>Negative SEO can be done in many ways, but the most common type of negative SEO is a link based on negative SEO. However, there are many other techniques that unscrupulous people can use to try to reduce your rankings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/black-hat-SEO.jpg\" alt=\"black hat SEO\" width=\"339\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some negative SEO examples:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hacking your website<\/li>\n<li>Linking your website from hundreds (even thousands) of low-quality sites<\/li>\n<li>Sending thousands of unnatural traffic bots to website<\/li>\n<li>Pointing the website using keywords like porn, viagra, online betting, gambling, etc<\/li>\n<li>Creating fake reviews<\/li>\n<li>Creating multiple replications of website<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Would_Someone_Commit_Negative_SEO\"><\/span>Why Would Someone Commit Negative SEO?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is no exact answer to this question. In some cases, negative SEO happens from yourself too when you trying to apply black hat SEO with the intention of improving your website. But most people do this with the intention of making your website bad in the search engine&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Does_Google_Say_About_Negative_SEO\"><\/span>What Does Google Say About Negative SEO?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>From the date of the Penguin update, a site with excessive spammy links is downranked from the index. This algorithm gave birth to &#8220;Negative SEO&#8221;. Google itself is not quite sure about negative SEO as it is hard to figure out.<\/p>\n<p>John Mueller &#8211; A Webmaster Analyst says &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/John-Muller-quote-about-negative-SEO.png\" alt=\"John Muller quote about negative SEO\" width=\"642\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Types_of_Negative_SEO\"><\/span>Types of Negative SEO<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Negative SEO attacks can take place in a number of different forms, both off-page, and on-page. The below list will give you an overview of the most common forms of negative SEO.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Negative_On-Page_SEO\"><\/span>Negative On-Page SEO<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Negative On-Page SEO concept is the same as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/on-page-seo-for-wordpress-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on-page SEO<\/a><\/strong>. Negative on-page SEO is a negative SEO activity done within the website. The following are some of the examples of negative on-page SEO.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excessive Crawling<\/li>\n<li>Content Scraping<\/li>\n<li>Hacking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Excessive_Crawling\"><\/span><strong>Excessive Crawling <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Google has specific crawling timing. This is the <strong>Black Hat SEO trick<\/strong> is achieved by forcefully crawling the site and thus causing heavy server load. When your site encounters heavy server load, search engine crawlers will not be able to find your site. This affects your ranking index.<\/p>\n<p>If you notice that your website is loading slower, or even can not access, contact your web hosting provers or webmasters. They should be able to figure out where the traffic is coming from. This way, you can monitor your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/types-of-website-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website traffic<\/a> and keep it balanced.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Content_Scraping\"><\/span><strong>Content Scraping <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Content scraping is the process of copying a block of content and publish on other websites. Scraped content results in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-duplicate-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duplicate Content<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the scenario when someone copies you all website content and publishes on other websites then Google sees it as duplicate content and downranks all similar sites.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hacking\"><\/span><strong>Hacking<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Hacking the direct attachment to your website. This happens even if the attacker has no negative SEO in mind, a hacker attack per se can hurt your SEO. Usually hacking is done by highly professional tech nerds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_Negative_Off-Page_SEO\"><\/span>\u00a0Negative Off-Page SEO<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para u-ltr u-text-align--start\">Off-page negative SEO is essentially trying to wreck a website\u2019s backlink profile. There are a few techniques used to do this, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link Farming<\/li>\n<li>Bad Reviews<\/li>\n<li>Irrelevant Link Building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Link_Farming\"><\/span><strong>Link Farming\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This typically involves the use of link farms such as a <strong>PBN (private blog network)<\/strong> which is a network of sites created solely for link building. Attackers try to carry out negative SEO by linking to their target website from the link farm. Google then flags the target site for potentially being involved in spam activity. The attacker might also make things worse by using exact match anchor text for your target keywords to make your link profile look even more spammy.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bad_Reviews\"><\/span>Bad Reviews<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Reviews are one of the good signals for the website to add value to the search engines. This is also one of the easiest ways to conduct for those who are jealous of you.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Irrelevant_Link_Building\"><\/span>Irrelevant Link Building<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Google does care about the quality of the link. In fact, backlinks are one of the major factors for ranking. A website having excessive Irrelevant and low-quality links can be penalized by Google. So, this is one of the common ways that someone follows for negative SEO.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Prevent_Yourself_from_Negative_SEO\"><\/span>How to Prevent Yourself from Negative SEO<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Although negative SEO impact is something not controllable,\u00a0 you can prevent yourself from negative SEO by implementing various techniques. There are many ways you can keep track of your website if it is affected by the unusual activities.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the methods that you can use to prevent yourself from negative SEO.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Keep_Track_of_Your_Backlinks\"><\/span>1. Keep Track of Your Backlinks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Since backlink is one of the major factors for Google ranking, you have to keep tracking the backlink profile.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the premium tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/monitorbacklinks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Monitorbacklink<\/strong>.<\/a> This tool lets you know about each and every link you get to your website through email. You can check the good and bad backlinks for you and the competition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6431\" style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/monitor-backlink-dashboard.jpg\" alt=\"monitor backlink dashboard\" width=\"858\" height=\"479\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monitorbacklink Dashboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to use a paid version of features then you can still check your backlink stats with its<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/monitorbacklinks.com\/seo-tools\/backlink-checker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Tool<\/a><\/strong>. Besides this, you can also check the backlink profile from tools like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/backlink-checker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backlink Checker by Ahref<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semrush.com\/analytics\/backlinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backlink Analytics by Semrush.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can remove the unnecessary backlink from your website by the <strong>Disavow backlinks<\/strong> process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: You should disavow backlinks only if:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You are sure that spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site.<\/li>\n<li>The links have caused a manual action, or likely will cause a manual action, on your site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/2648487?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Follow these steps for the disavow process<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Keep_Checking_Duplicate_Content\"><\/span>2. Keep Checking Duplicate Content<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Duplicate-Content-Across-Multiple-Domains.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Existence in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/what-is-duplicate-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duplicate Content<\/a><\/strong> results in a negative impact on your website.<\/p>\n<p>You have to regularly check if there is duplicate content exists on your website. This is because if somebody is copying and pasting your website content on another website, all the websites with similar content will be penalized by Google.\u00a0 You can use tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copyscape.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copyscape.com<\/a> to check if someone published you exact content somewhere else.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Monitor_Your_Own_SEO_Strategy\"><\/span>3. Monitor Your Own SEO Strategy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>As we have talked earlier, negative SEO sometimes occurs from your side too. This is completely an unintentional negative SEO attack. This is the case when you conduct absolute black hat practices deliberately with the intention of improving the site&#8217;s performance. So, you need to keep yourself free from these activities.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Secure_Your_Website_From_Malware\"><\/span>4. Secure Your Website From Malware<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Security is a pillar of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/free-wordpress-business-themes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">business website<\/a>. You have to keep a strong password for your administrator logins. There are multiple ways you can keep your website secure. Some of these techniques include &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting up multiple authentications (Google Authenticator)<\/li>\n<li>Keeping your password secret<\/li>\n<li>Protecting your website by changing the login URL and preventing access to the wp-login.php page and wp-admin directory while not logged-in<\/li>\n<li>Setting up a backup on a regular basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Check_Your_SERP_Ranking\"><\/span>5. Check Your SERP Ranking<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>You have to keep checking your websites crawl stat to make sure that robots.txt file is set up properly. This is because sometimes a change in robots.txt or one simple alteration could wreak havoc on your entire SEO strategy. A disallow rule is all it takes to tell Google to completely ignore your important pages or even the entire website.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_Out_This_infographic_by_YourSEOPickcom\"><\/span>Check Out This infographic by YourSEOPick.com<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/negative-SEO.png\" alt=\"negative SEO\" width=\"800\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Other SEO Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/no-follow-vs-do-follow-link\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do-Follow vs No-Follow Outbound Link<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Which one is better?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/off-page-seo-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Common Off-Page SEO Techniques<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/improve-eat-seo-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>What is EAT Score in SEO &amp; Ways to Improve It<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you liked this article, then consider following us on\u00a0<strong>Twitter<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acmethemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/acmethemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the term &#8220;Negative SEO&#8221;, it is something that most of the people don&#8217;t want to talk about. 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