02 Mar
By Neil Patel
You’re checking the backlinks pointing to your site, as you do occasionally, when you see it:
a huge spike in links.
At first, you’re not sure whether to be excited or scared, but when you look closer, your fears are confirmed—you’re being attacked.
Someone is bombarding your site with spam links (like the ones below) in the hopes that you will be penalized by Google.
It’s likely a competitor, but it’s almost impossible to tell who.
While this type of scenario is most likely to happen in competitive niches, it can happen anywhere.
The term for it, as you may …read more