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Penalty I’ve Never Seen, Discovered During Negative SEO Test

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It seems Google may have a penalty that I’ve never heard of before. Someone tweeted me this infographic describing a company who tried to do negative seo on their self. I already knew negative seo was very possible because several people have already done it and bragged about it in their attempts to show up Google. So for me, the type of penalty they incurred was a lot more interesting than what they intended. I also recently heard of a company getting their Pagerank reduced.

This is what I meant in my last post when I was talking about not wanting to post about topics that seem old to me even though they’re still relevant and, negative seo is definitely still relevant. I really wouldn’t have wanted to talk about this if it didn’t have this new penalty. It’s new to me anyway.

Normally, when sites get penalized for using dirty links, they drop in the serps for a nice round number like 10 pages for example. Of course, sometimes, they just get deindexed. The penalty these guys may earned themselves seems to only cause small incremental penalties. They only fell to page 2 where they still are as I write this.

Flaws in the study

I would have loved it if they had tried it using the same formula on two or three more sites just to be sure it’s a penalty. Their rankings drop happened in between penguin updates, which means:they either lost an important link or two,or they actually did incur a penalty which I actually haven’t heard of before today.

Google told Barry Schwartz over at SERoundtable.com that there were no Penguin Updates when this rankings drop occurred so we can definitely rule out a Penguin penalty for links that were already there and, it probably wasn’t Panda because those penalties usually do a lot worse than knock you down to page 2. If this is a penalty, it’s an interesting one because it might be Google’s way of trying slow down negative SEOs. Only Google knows. Check out the study for yourself below.

Testing Negative SEO

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