[justcomments12]

A botnet is attacking the site in question (domains include xxxcommitted, pornsextube, qastack, thecouponholiday etc)

Around May 2020 the attacks started on your site, see your data: https://i.imgur.com/mfFRgVj.png

This botnet contains thousands of sites (so far I found this botnet includes 9000+ domains). The same botnet that's attacking my sites and thousands of others companies.

It may well be this is a foreign state cyber attack: so many sites are target and the 9000+ botnet domains to pay aren't free. No doubt this is costing governments lots of money.

When this botnet is attacking your site(s), it's goodbye to your blogging income. Sad but true.

Quality or best results is not the ranking factor anymore, it's large botnets that decide on the Google ranking.

Try Google disavow tool, it barely works, but at least it's something. I hope someday Google will fix this (ignore negative SEO), but for now this is the way things are.

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> When this botnet is attacking your site(s), it's goodbye to your blogging income. Sad but true.

Is it because botnet attack makes your site slow, and make it lose google ranking ?

[justcomments12]

It's because the botnet pages themselves contains data which Google considers spam (unrelated topics, link farms, ad pages, porn etc).

Google then lowers the rankings (or removes the blogs from Google). All they have to do is run an update script to update all the domains with the blog link, and Google lowers their rankings.