[blackcats]

Negative SEO. Thousands of low content link farm sites started appearing at the start of the pandemic. Google Disavow didn’t work, hosting companies like Cloudflare, Godaddy refuse to remove the Link farm sites. Domains are hidden behind privacy protection. Every week there are hundreds of new link farm sites, lost 70% in 1.5 year

[0xy]

Did you consider that this was a targeted attack by a competitor? I've seen this type of black hat SEO.

[blackcats]

Yes, I found out the attacker was buying links. One site was offering links for a monthly fee. After I got removed from that one, about 1000 were gone. So he is using multiple link farms

[pizza]

Wow - is that legal? If not, seems like you could get in touch with a lawyer?

[blackcats]

No it’s not legal, but the attacker hides behind privacy protection