I guess I'm confused.
I've seen a lot of explanations of "Negative SEO" here (and other places) that I never really considered to be negative SEO - things like scraping, bot attacks (both of which I've had extensive issues with, but never suffered organic problems from), hacking and various other behaviors.
And just this week, there's been a case study going around about negative SEO that didn't involve backlinks at all:
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It would be helpful if we were all on the same page here. What exactly *is* negative SEO? Should it include anything anyone does to raise their own site above yours in Google (and Bing, for that matter)? Does it include taking your site down with poisoned DNS, DDOS attacks or outright hacking? Does it include being collateral damage in someone else's actions to relentlessly claw their way to the top?
When you think of negative SEO, do you think more than throwing a bunch of bad links at your site and seeing what will stick?
I admit I'm skeptical. I believe negative SEO exists, certainly, but I have a hard time believing it's as prevalent as many people think it is. I think a lot of other things get blamed on negative SEO, so I'm thinking maybe my personal definition is wrong.
