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Black hat SEO has become a synonym of stress and headaches for website owners. Hackers and competitors leave no stone unturned to damage your website ranking by using black hat SEO. So, what precautions and steps you can take to counter the problem of black hat SEO?
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• Developing countless spammy connections to your website
• Copying your website’s content, blogs and article and spreading it in all the places in the Internet
• Directing spammy/negative links or phrases to your website using keywords
• Producing fake social media profiles and tarnishing your online reputation
• Moving away the best performing back-links from your website
"pay us and we'll stop"? Ever hear of the "Black Hand"? (Mano Nera)
Is going to happen. If you put it out there for all to see, it gets copied. I guess you are new to the web, don't worry it will wear off or you start to only put out what you know will be copied.
I hear something about bots? is that black hat. I hear it's not real web traffic.
I dont get why the fake traffic? what's the purpose?
Please find below few of the strategies to Protect Your Website From Black Hat SEO:
Benefit of Google Webmaster Tool:
Check whether your webpage has Google webmaster tools. If not then create one. This will enable you to understand if any malware is moved to your webpage or any suspicious activity has happened.
Check your Backlinks Regularly:
This is very important step to stay away from spammers. They will generally make negative SEO against your webpage by building low quality backlinks. Monitor Backlinks tool is one of the best tool that will help you to know status on your backlinks. If you find any unwanted backlinks or bad backlinks then you can straight away remove unwanted backlinks from your webpage.
Protect your Webpage form Hackers:
Protect your webpage from hackers. For example, if you are using Wordpress then install Google Authenticator plugin and create a verification password. This will enable you to protect your site from hackers.
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