How to Respond to Negative SEO Extortion Email
No, this is not a joke. Mass negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website owners, webmasters have been reported recently. The emails claim that the sender will destroy the site’s ranking in Google and other search engines if the website owner does not pay up $1,500 to the diabolical SEOGoogle’s stance on negative SEO has changed from the earlier “almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index,” to now admitting that “Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index.” This implies that negative SEO can indeed wreck havoc on its victim.