Marcus Adams<p>So I decided to check on my server to see how it's handling all the bots and we're up to nearly 10,000 banned IP addresses, plus I caught another one being abusive with thousands of requests in the last 24 hours; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SemrushBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemrushBot</span></a>. No idea who <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> is, some kind of SEO or marketing outfit looks like, but it seems to have started yesterday. The day before it was just a couple hundred, but yesterday it was several thousand so now they get a 403 and a firewall ban.</p>
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Torsten Materna<p>SEO da?</p><p>Habe eine kurze Frage - nutzt das jemand von Euch? Wenn ja, wie schlägt es sich im Vergleich zu Sistrix, Semrush, Ahrefs?</p><p>Ergänzung? Oder sogar Ersatz?</p><p>Danke, für einen Hinweis. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sistrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sistrix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ahrefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ahrefs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dataforseo.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dataforseo.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
MeaningfulBits.eth<p>Jesus, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEMRush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEMRush</span></a> is a terrible <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> tool and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>company</span></a>.</p><p>They charge you for every single individual feature and make it difficult to unsubscrib.</p><p>Then when you do unsub they just disabled access and fuck off with your remaining time with that feature, I paid for 30 days give me the full 30 days.</p><p>Please someone suggest alternatives.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>If you used neither <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> nor <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> then you wouldn’t fall for this scam. (I’m personally at a loss as to why anyone would use Semrush, based on my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> experiences of 2024.)</p><p><a href="https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/attackers-semrush-steal-google-credentials" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">darkreading.com/cyberattacks-d</span><span class="invisible">ata-breaches/attackers-semrush-steal-google-credentials</span></a></p>
The New Oil<p>Fake <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> ads used to steal <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> professionals’ <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> accounts</p><p><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-semrush-ads-used-to-steal-seo-professionals-google-accounts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu</span><span class="invisible">rity/fake-semrush-ads-used-to-steal-seo-professionals-google-accounts/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/malvertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malvertising</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a></p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>Definitely getting rid of that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>-inspired <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> about me. Not as many items left, and the only noticeable one that persists with disinformation is a company called Nexorank, who can’t help but trade off my reputation—since they don’t have any capability or nous themselves. Good thing is their lies stand out like a sore thumb amongst the pieces that are left. Their hosts are complicit in the fraud.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>I don’t have this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>” thing but for those who do, this was interesting … For once, it’s in my favour (unlike the whole <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>-user <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> saga). I’m told that the previous search was more explicit about recommending <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocade</span></a> Year of Cars 2025, but my friend couldn’t replicate it.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MaryAustinBooks</span></a></span> Thank you! I imagine most of these people are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> users—there seems to be a big intersection between disinformation spreaders and Semrush use!</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>In my blog<br>Twenty twenty-four, the year of “AI slop”</p><p><a href="https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/12/twenty-twenty-four-the-year-of-ai-slop/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jackyan.com/blog/2024/12/twent</span><span class="invisible">y-twenty-four-the-year-of-ai-slop/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/splogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>splogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a></p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>The sad thing for me personally online in 2024 was that “AI” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> outnumbered any new legit stuff (e.g. press interviews) written about me. All thanks to a program I had never heard of before: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>. It showed how fake the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> world is, how amoral many of its practitioners are, and how a small group of web hosts are too cowardly to enforce their own terms and policies. The positives are the good web hosts, who have helped take down dozens of these pages, but it has taken all year.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>Thanks to Tier.net, two more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> pages at techzein.com have been removed. As usual, the disinformation merchants, usually in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> business, ignored me even though they are wrongly trading off my name. They know they are lying. But right and wrong do not come into it for SEO. The threat of losing their account does. It’s annoying that they are this crooked (and gullible, believing anything <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> tells them), but that’s probably to be expected.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://expressional.social/@preferred" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>preferred</span></a></span> No, they write smack about me. That was my comment on a site that wrote BS about me. They usually say stuff like I work in SEO, and there are algorithms or updates that I developed and are named for me. All of it comes from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> and its BS tools, but people working in SEO are desperate to believe anything, so they concoct stories to prostrate the software, thinking that Google will reward them. (It’s what they’ve been told, like a cult.)</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://root.moose.ca/@chris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chris</span></a></span> Youʼd be right, I think. What I do know is that the ones who came clean told me they used an “SEO” program called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>. Semrush claimed their software made bad predictions about keywords after I questioned them on their subreddit. But who set it on that path?</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hollyjahangiri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hollyjahangiri</span></a></span> Probably, but which AI is doing this? I’ve had to put up with a minimum of one a day till early October. They are still coming up. I wonder if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> has an LLM generating this junk for its users.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> merchant got very specific about my personal details—though everything else in the post is false. They really have no ethics, happy to drag in a person’s reputation to keyword-stuff based on botched predictions by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>Another success in the fight against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a>. This site removed their page, but only after their host contacted them. They could have saved themselves the hassle if they did the right thing when I contacted them. And yes, itʼs another gullible “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a>” company believing that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> is a god, when they have shown themselves to be wrong time and time again.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>There are new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> posts about me. Time to take them down. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> and these <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> people never learn, do they?</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> splogger had their account suspended but thought they would pull the same trick by posting the same drivel under a new URL. Oh dear, website gone again.<br> Use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>, post disinformation, lose your website. This could so easily have been avoided—twice! Big thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hostinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hostinger</span></a> again for taking this seriously.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>Tried to give this schmuck a chance to do the right thing. Oh well, if he wants to look stupid for being one of the few sites left with disinformation, showing the world he was fooled by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a>, then so be it … though it’s time to go to his host.</p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>Sobering reading these <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semrush</span></a> reviews on Trustpilot. You have to conclude from these customers that the dobbers are completely untrustworthy.</p><p><a href="https://nz.trustpilot.com/review/semrush.com?stars=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nz.trustpilot.com/review/semru</span><span class="invisible">sh.com?stars=1</span></a></p>
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