My Website Is Under Attack! Is Negative SEO Real? I Really Need Some Help.

I am reaching out to the community because I am in over my head on this one.

While I am not 100% positive, it appears that my website is under a serious negative SEO attack and it is killing my page ranks and organic search visitors.

Has Anyone Else Experienced This? Do You Have Any Advice To Share?

Before this all started 2 months ago, I was averaging around 350 to 400 daily organic search visitors with a high of $1,750.00 in monthly earnings from being an Amazon Affiliate as well as a few others. Both visitors and income had been increasing on a monthly basis.

As of today, I am down to about 100 daily organic search visitors and my monthly earnings have all but disappeared. All of my highest-ranking pages on Google have dropped like a rock.

I first noticed a problem about two months ago when I realized that I was no longer receiving traffic from Yahoo/Bing searches.

My Site Had Been Added To Their Spam List

After looking deeper, I realized that my site was not showing up anywhere on Yahoo/Bing search engines anymore and was no longer indexed. I confirmed this using the Jaaxy Site Rank tool as well.

After doing a little research, I immediately opened a support ticket with them explaining my situation and asking for assistance.

I received a reply to my ticket four days later stating that my site had been placed under the spam list. They said they would send my request to their product team to see if the block was valid.

Four days after that, they replied saying that after submitting my site to be reviewed the team has decided to lift the block. It would take up to 2-3 weeks for my site to be indexed and visible again.

I was relieved by this message, but unfortunately, I did not receive a reply when I asked what had caused my site to be added to the spam list so I can make sure to avoid this happening again. No worries, I was back and that was all that mattered…or so I thought!

I Assumed This Was The Cause Of My Traffic Decline

The drop in traffic wasn’t drastic at first so I assumed the Bing/Yahoo block was the reason why I was seeing fewer visitors. It was all just a mistake I thought. I knew I had not been doing anything shady. I figured I would have to live with it for 2-3 weeks until I was re-indexed and all would fine again.

Four weeks later, I was still not indexed with Bing/Yahoo and my frustration was building. I sent the ticket owner several more emails but never received a reply.

I also noticed that my traffic was slowly decreasing further every week. That’s when I started looking at my google rankings and noticed they had been dropping as well. All of my top pages had started dropping out of the top 10.

I know the drop in visits is not a seasonal thing because this is the prime season for my niche.

Why I think This Is A Negative SEO Attack

I don’t know for sure but from the things I have read on the subject, the following signs seem to point to it being an attack.

• Over the last two months, I have been receiving a lot of spam type comments to my site, especially to my biggest money page. Many were in different languages and all had spammy links, some even to porn sites. I did not approve any of them and deleted them right away.
• Looking in Google Search Console, it looks like I have received a lot of spammy backlinks over the last two months.
• I have been receiving 20-26 random homepage visits all at once from the several odd looking sources a couple times a week. These sources are:
  • earniz-money. info
  • we-ping-for-youal. info
  • 100dollars-fory-trump-poll. info
  • get-clickpy. info
  • trafers. com
  • prod.uhrs.playmsn. com

If that doesn’t look concerning, I don’t know what does.

Could This Be Something I Inadvertently Did?

I truly don’t believe so. I have never attempted any black hat or spam tactics, never purchased or agreed to any shady link exchanges, never allowed or have done any quest posting and have done my best not to offend anyone. If anything, I have lagged in the outreach and link building department.

I only link to authority sites within my niche when it is appropriate.

I do not have any manual webspam actions against me from Google as far as Search Console is reporting.

All of my posts are well researched and average around 1,800/2,000 plus words long. I check each post with Plagiarism Checker to make sure they are completely unique before publishing.

I 100% believe that I have provided my readers with quality posts that are meant to help them.

Basically, I have followed the training provided at here at WA and avoided all the too good to be true “speed things along” promises that we all see. I have pretty much stayed to myself and focused on creating and writing good content.

What Do I Do From Here?

I am beyond discouraged! I know that Affiliate Marketing works, I know that the training here at WA works, BUT…

If this does turn out to be an outside attack and not something I have accidentally done myself…

If 20 months of learning, hard work and doing things the right way can be brought down this easily, is this truly even worth it anymore?

The excitement of all your blood, sweat and tears finally paying off is an amazing feeling. This, on the other hand, is a devastating blow.

I Could Use Some Help

My site is no longer hosted here at WA as I moved it to another hosting platform about 6 months ago. So I am not sure that opening ticket here at WA would be helpful.

I don’t wish this one anyone, but if it has happened to someone else here, I am hoping you may be able to help me turn this mess around.

If Kyle, Carson or Jay see this, your feedback and advice would greatly be appreciated too.

Thanks in advance to all who took the time to read this.

Patrick

*Bing/Yahoo Update: I finally received a reply yesterday saying that they apologize for the delay in response but the previous employee who had my ticket is no longer with the company and had never actually escalated my case. They would have to submit my site for review again in order to lift the block.

**Bing/Yahoo update #2: I received notice today that they will lift the block but it will take 2/3 weeks before I am re-indexed. At least that is a start, but that does not help me with my Google rankings.