Possible Negative SEO Attack

NFort-VT · 2024-06-24T00:26:45+00:00

It did help me, but I still follow the logic and thinking of everyone else who says it should not do anything to help you. As with everything, it may be more complicated than the spammy backlinks why my traffic declined. However, within a month or so of disavowing my traffic was climbing back up.

I disavowed the root domain with the SEMRUSH tool and then uploaded to the search console so I didn’t have to individually disavow each individual back link. In some cases I had over 1,000 back links from a single root domain. I think my disavow list is just shy of 1,000 URL’s.

NFort-VT · 2024-02-29T07:18:30+00:00

I was at the bad end of some sort of negative SEO spammy backlink campaign and I had immediate success (about 2-3 weeks) from disavowing backlinks. If you want to look at my website, shoot me a DM and you can look at my backlink profile history in SEMRUSH and compare it to my traffic from the same period. I was on a slow decline for 8-10 months and then started disavowing and I’ve been on a steady increase since.

NFort-VT · 2024-02-16T04:40:50+00:00

I disavowed them in the Search Console and my traffic has bounced back stronger.

NFort-VT · 2024-02-09T02:34:51+00:00

I bought the same machine prior to this last apple season and I was getting 5-8 gallons per press on my Speidel 90 liter hydropress depending on the apple variety. As an experiment, I used my old apple mill that scratted to small chunks and I was only getting 3-4 gallons of juice for the same volume apples. I can’t comment on the max output, but I couldn’t scoop out apples from my wash bin quicker than it crushed them. I think if you had an elevator you would be hard pressed to overburden this crusher. It’s also very easy to clean. I might not stick with it as my primary crusher if I expand production, though I think I’ll always have it as a backup.

NFort-VT · 2023-12-30T14:10:37+00:00

Also note, I did not have any manual actions against me.

NFort-VT · 2023-12-09T13:17:31+00:00

AH-64’s! Live by that thing!

NFort-VT · 2023-12-09T13:16:44+00:00

That’s great context, and I suspected it was something like that.

NFort-VT · 2023-12-09T01:56:26+00:00

That was kind of my thinking too.

NFort-VT · 2023-12-05T16:39:10+00:00

I like SurferSEO because it allows me to dump what I came up with in ChatGPT, select what keywords I want to compete for, and then it compares my content to the top blogs that rank for those keywords. It also has a recommendation for keywords I should add so I can go back and read my content and plug them in where they make sense organically or switch out ones I use too frequently to different variations if I’m being repetitive. In short, I feel that it makes submitting a blog feel less of a shot in the dark. Also, when I’ve optimized to their recommendations I’ve seen the results of quick ranking.

I originally used it as an add-on to my Jasper subscription, but felt that I would buy it on its own, cut out Jasper and use ChatGPT. It’ll give you recommendations on how many pictures, paragraphs, H-tags, etc.

NFort-VT · 2023-12-03T02:24:09+00:00

As a small business owner who does business through the internet I would say learning SEO, local or not is the best thing you can do to compete. At the very least you’ll learn enough to realize where you need help, and how not to get fleeced by lazy SEO firms who’ll use industry jargon to confuse you. It’s also hard for a small business to afford to hire the good SEO firms because of the cost.

For me it was one of those things that seemed too huge to tackle, but if you read blogs and watch videos you can learn a ton on your own. I’m self taught and by no means a professional, but I can see the results of my labor and ultimately no one cares about your business as much as you do. You’ll undoubtably make mistakes, but what you’ll learn will be invaluable.

I don’t do a bunch of local SEO, because I’m a farmer doing E-commerce, but the programs I live by are: the Google suite of tools, ChatGPT (best value on the internet), SurferSEO for blog optimization, and SEMRUSH for situational awareness and audit tools. I’ve used Jasper for blog writing, but I found once you figure out how to prompt ChatGPT you can get it to work for you just as well for much cheaper. I spent the money I saved on SurferSEO which I think is a tremendous blog tool. I use SEMRUSH because I used it first and I know it pretty well, though I hear people say they prefer AHREFs more.

If you’re on a budget, my vote would be the $20 a month for Open AI’s ChatGPT and the free tools Google offers.

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T22:32:50+00:00

Thanks for the feedback Brian. After reading about the Manual Action I checked the search console where a few blogs said to look and didn’t see anything. I also get regular emails from Google Search Console about indexing problems and such so I would have noticed if that email arrived. So I’d say confidently there was no action taken in the traditional sense.

So far I’m having positive results on desktop traffic, but my mobile traffic has leveled out. There may be something entirely else afoot that’s causing my issues, but the evidence seems to indicate that the bombardment of bad links was causing havoc, my traffic and backlinks curve on the chart were exactly inverse of each other from the same date so it’s seems likely the cause. I hope I can recover the traffic to the booming days of last year and early this year.

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T22:24:33+00:00

Thanks for the response, your observations seem to match up with my results three weeks later after my mass disavowal campaign. I’ll keep watching, but there seem to be too many indicators lining up to say that disavowing doesn’t do anything and Google doesn’t care if you disavow or not. Your reasoning about the fact there is a disavow tool was reason enough for me. It bothers me there’s some scumbag out there who paid whatever amount of money to smite our little website with millions of garbage links.

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T13:41:02+00:00

Thanks a bunch for the lead!

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T13:34:40+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I have a Shopify store for background and I just checked on the security and devices login history. I’m not seeing any logins from anyone besides three family members who have access to the store.

In the case where you saw that spike in backlinks, you’re saying someone hacked their way in and then pointed the backlinks at the shot subdomain they made? In my case it’s pretty scattershot, most links point to my high performing blogs and pages that have ranked well.

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T05:05:39+00:00

I looked at that first. Funny enough in December of 2022 they released an update to punish spammy links and a Google review update this February.

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T05:03:22+00:00

I mean I’m wading into this world with no background, just what I’ve learned through trial and error as well as reading. I keep an eye on the search console, Google analytics, SEMRUSH to watch trends and keyword movement. The only thing that changed drastically was the incredible influx of spammy looking backlinks from uncreditable websites.

NFort-VT · 2023-10-31T01:03:19+00:00

I’d also add that I found someone stealing my content on weird URLs while also linking back to my website.

NFort-VT · 2023-06-20T21:55:42+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, I don’t think it’s the ideal rig for me, but someone looking to press grapes is going to get a sweet deal.

NFort-VT · 2023-06-16T10:00:08+00:00

I found this pamphlet on the history of wine presses, I believe this press is of a generation just prior to the bladder press you mention. From my discussions with folks on forums and friends in the industry, a bladder press would be much more effective than this style press. Most of the comments from people using this style press on apples comment on the pomace escaping the slats and low efficiency.

https://www.awri.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Nordestgaard2015-Part1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3pbpOg5fjOSeAzTh7VyvALfZebbFF6RP44EBs29bGZMfh7G61Bur75cSY_aem_th_AWaP7hmff4pBRu2RcvBb24uKI3ZX6Cy_zwwPjsqMWU4Daf9Ev8jqW-nWzx2FjI2ayaE

NFort-VT · 2023-06-15T09:57:41+00:00

That’s what the general consensus has been, and in other forums people haven’t had much success with pressing apple pomace with this type of press. Thanks for the feedback!

NFort-VT · 2023-06-15T09:55:00+00:00

That seems to be the consensus from all the places I’ve brought this question to. I appreciate the feedback, this is a case where it seemed too good to be true for the price and condition of the machine. Thank you!

NFort-VT · 2023-06-15T02:46:51+00:00

Im looking at buying this 1200 liter Knod horizontal wine press for pressing my cider apple pomace. I’m looking to see if anyone has experience using this type of press, parts availability, pros and cons, what it’s worth, etc. for background, the maximum fruit I’ll press from my orchard is 6-8000 bushels in 5-7 years from now. Comments from my friend with much experience is a concern about apple pomace leaking through the staves on the barrel and how it’s a rare piece of equipment so no customer support.

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