Each beat is one way a site loses traffic to somebody else's work. We add a report to a beat only when we hold the evidence for it. A beat with no report yet is one we are still gathering on, and the fastest way to change that is to send us what you have seen.
Link Attacks And Link Farms
2 ReportsSpam link waves, cloaked farms and paid link networks that drag down the numbers a site is judged by.
Scrapers And Content Theft
1 ReportBots and people who copy a site's pages, listings or photos and publish them somewhere else.
Fake Reviews And Listing Hijacks
No Reports YetReview bombing, bought reviews and business profiles edited or claimed by someone who does not own them.
False Takedown And Copyright Claims
No Reports YetRemoval notices filed to knock a rival page out of search with no real claim behind them.
Hacked Sites And Injected Spam
No Reports YetBreak ins that plant pages, links or redirects on a site its owner still thinks is clean.
Expired Domain And Redirect Abuse
No Reports YetOld domains bought for their history and pointed at something their links never meant to support.
Bot And Click Fraud
No Reports YetFake visits and fake ad clicks that spend a budget or bend the data a business steers by.
Search Update Fallout
1 ReportWhat search engine updates take away, why, and how to tell an update from an attack.