3. Take Your Website Security Serious

The internet is an open environment where your Website can be susceptible to hacking and various forms of malware attacks. Although we cannot tag these attacks as negative SEO, they affect your Website SEO negatively. As such, you must take your Website security seriously.

You must be interested in the encryption and general protection of your Website against attacks of any form. Ensure your website has SSL; that is, it runs on HTTPS and not HTTP. If your Website is on Wealthy Affiliate, they will take care of it for free.

Now HTTPS is a ranking factor, and it offers a higher level of security; you cannot afford to be left out.

4. Keep track-off and protect your backlinks.

One of the most prominent Negative SEO tactics is building low-quality backlinks or redirects to your Website. It is important you audit your backlinks. Ahref's free backlink tool will help you keep an eye on your backlinks' daily or steady growth.

A check on the growth of your link will help you easily identify and prevent a possible attack. In case of an attack, you can easily report or disavow the link.

5. Watch your Mention on Social media.

Spammers go to the point of using your name or website name on social media to create fake accounts and begin to generate followers. You must get wind of this as early as possible and remove it. Report it as spam, else they will generate followers, and you will lose people's trust and followership.

There are a lot of tools out there that can help you keep a watch on social mentions and note fake profiles. You must keep your brand's trust.