Looks like the Negative SEO Tactic of Submitting Fake DMCA Complaints Works on Google

Max Prin recently noticed that his Fetch & Render tools page on TechnicalSEO was not ranking on Google. When he started looking into why this was the case he came across a fake DMCA complaint against his page.

None of their claims seem to make any sense… I’m just shocked that it’s actually working. This is dangerous: « can’t rank well in search? hire us and we’ll just take down your competition! » (I guess I could change the URL and 302 for now but it’s annoying)

— Max Prin (@maxxeight) February 25, 2021

Goes to show people will do all sort of crap to rank their websites.