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Case Study: A Negative SEO Attack Turned Into a Penguin-Proof Backlink Profile

Brian Jackson recovered from negative SEO attack with WebCEO - Case Study

Last week one of my sites got hacked and I suffered from a huge negative SEO attack. The hack itself was primarily my fault as I was running an out-of-date WordPress theme from 2008. The theme developer no longer supports it and I haven’t had the time to migrate the site to a new theme. The hacker managed to insert some PHP spamming “viagra” everywhere. They also managed to hack a network of other sites, 204 domains to be exact all with “viagra” terms in the anchor text against my domain (thousands of backlinks). Good thing I use WebCEO and am constantly checking my backlink profile, otherwise I would have never caught it.

Brian Jackson, Entrepreneur who loves SEO, SMM, WordPress & Growth Hacking

Make Your Backlink Profile as Clean as Brian Did

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The WebCEO Backlink Tools Used by Brian Jackson:

  • Backlink Checker tool > Linking Domains report Get a list of the domains, exact pages, link anchor texts linking to your site (our partner, Majestic Corporation, provides data for your WebCEO account).

  • Backlink Checker tool > Toxic Links report Automatically detect toxic links and get rid of them via the Google Disavow Tool to avoid a negative impact on your backlink profile.

  • Backlink Checker tool > Competitor Link profile Compare your backlink profile to competitors to see where they outperform you.

  • Competitor Backlink Spy tool Find relevant sites to get backlinks from - see which important websites link to your competitors but don't yet link to you.

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