Has anyone seen a pattern like this with spam backlinks?
Over the last 3 months, a few of our top-ranking pages have been steadily losing rankings. At the same time, I'm seeing an average of ~30 spam backlinks being created daily, and I don't see any of the same links in GSC.
Now that those pages have dropped significantly in rankings, the volume of those spam links has also reduced to around 3 per day on average. I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but the pattern caught my attention.
What I've already checked:
GSC links
Continued optimising pages based on SERP changes
Continued building quality backlinks
Previously disavowed a few suspicious links (about a month ago)
I know Google generally says these kinds of links are ignored, so I'm not jumping to conclusions. I'm just trying to understand whether anyone has seen a similar pattern in the real world.
Has anyone experienced something like this? Any insights would be appreciated.