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Inbound links to internal search with pharma spam anchor text. Negative seo attack
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Suddenly in October I had a spike on inbound links from forums and spams sites. Each one had setup hundreds of links. The links goes to WordPress internal search.
Example:
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@Arlinaite47 hi, how i can do like this
https://images.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.se/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.co.id/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.fr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.co.uk/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.ca/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.co.in/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.com.br/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.com.tr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://images.google.de/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.gr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.co.uk/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.co.id/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.co.in/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.com.br/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.com.tr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.de/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.co.jp/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.pl/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.it/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.com.mx/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.ca/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.gr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.fr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.ru/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.co.kr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.co.th/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://cse.google.com.ua/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.se/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.fr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.de/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.gr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.co.uk/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.es/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.co.td/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.pl/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.ca/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.com.mx/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.co.kr/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F https://maps.google.ru/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigeiptv.net%2F
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Sorry,
The message was cut off
Suddenly in October I had a spike on inbound links from forums and spams sites. Each one had setup hundreds of links.
The links goes to WordPress internal search.
Example:
mysite.com/es/?s=here a very long text related to a pharma search
No humans are visiting those links but I have dozens of bots digging in those links and looking for invalid traffic.
I disavow the links, but looks that I am David fighting against Goliat with a toothpick
How to stop this?
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