Sign up ×  I have read a couple of articles about negative/black
SEO. They were explaining that important part of it is creating
web sites with "bad" content that "stink" to Google. Back links
from these sites are consequently penalized by Google and target
sites receive negative bonus to their ranking.  However, I had a
little argument with my friend today, who is from my point of
view an experienced web developer and SEO optimizer. He told me
that this negative SEO and penalized sites is complete nonsense.
He gave me an example that there is no problem for a company to
create link farm of "bad links" that would be imposible for any
tool to block. So if negative SEO was possible, there would be
many big internet companies with sites ruined by this SEO.  So I
am asking you, because you always gave me good advice, is it
fiction or fact?  share|improve this question I'd recommend
following this study/test that Rand Fishkin from Moz is leading.
–  zigojacko Jun 18 '14 at 12:45 Maybe I am blind but I cannot
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