I would delete the post and give them a warning, 2nd offence would ban the profile. Maybe they would contribute in a more positive way in the future.

Some of those sites might increase their power over time, if so the link would be even better for you.

What keywords are you trying to rank better than them, are they included in your home page title tag?

It is better to have blog posts within your own domain rather than a subdomain.

Hi @devon, welcome to SEO Forum. From what I read, it sounds like a PBN pattern, so it depends on Google and how it evaluates such schemes. Honestly, I don't see anything...

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One of our client has confirmed SE traffic decline, due to affected ranking positions. No confirmation of that having something to do with the update in question though....

got some movement here and there, but if I didn't read this topic, I'd think it's all normal or almost normal but who knows anyway. do we know what exactly was this updat...

Short update to my updated content on the site I bought 12 months ago: I updated the content one year ago, just about the time of my post here. SE traffic has increased b...