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Re:Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service an... by cmeacham98 on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:55AM (#26112323)
How about automatically honeypotting them? Add some code to your site that will IP ban a user that searches for some random string (and when I say random, I mean literally generate a random string - something no legit user would search for).

Then, setup a script on your laptop or whatever to search this string on their domains every half hour or so.

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Re:Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service an... by santah on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:10AM (#26112411)
It's basically what I've done, though have not automated it yet.

It even prepares the expression snippet for me to paste directly into a CloudFlare firewall rule.

That's how I got to quickly identify and ban almost 2000 different IPs.

If they continue to expand the IP pool I may need to automate it though.

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