Who gave you negative backlinks? There is no such thing as "bad" backlink in terms of negative context. For example, "I don't like www.example.com" do...

Nofollow links will be better to those external links.

Keep updating the pages somehow everyday and have patience. It will certainly be fruitful.

Yes, it happens. Internal linking of pages and backlinks resolve the issue.

Create high-quality, shareable content, engage with influencers, guest post on reputable sites, leverage broken link building, and participate in relevant community discu...

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There can be a problem with the location of the sitemap file. This link can help you more, https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#location

give screen shot of gsc then i'll tell you the suggestion.

You don't need to stuff keywords in their exact search form. Actually, you don't even need to use all of the keywords. Search engines now use LSI (Latent Semantic Indexin...