Case Study
Negative SEO Recovery
Case Study: Negative SEO Recovery Result: Full recovery in 3 months Investment: $11,200 Client: Highly focused firm in tech savvy city in an extremely competitive market. Summary: After years of solid, steady growth, search traffic dropped abruptly by roughly 70%. Assuming this was due to a technical issue, we performed a variety of diagnostics to no avail – it wasn’t until we checked the site’s backlink profile on Majestic that we identified a large influx of links from irrelevant, low quality sites – predominately in China and Russia. According to Majestic, the links started appearing roughly 6 weeks prior to the drop in traffic. This pattern is the hallmark of a negative SEO attack – when a nefarious competitor deliberately directs a large volume of extremely low quality links at a webs