Recently I hired some virtual assistants on Upwork to help me grow my website, however, for some reason they tried to destroy my search engine rankings.
Did they do it on purpose? you should report it to Upwork then.
Do we know if the country of India has something against bitcoin or anything recent in the news that would suggest this?
There are news and hot issue about bitcoin between RBI. They have lifted the ban on bitcoin last March-May 2020 but there's another speculation that they were interested again on banning it.
With a law, India plans lasting ban on cryptos, the article was published just this June 2020.
In March 2020, the ban on cryptocurrency in India was lifted. I havent encountered this article from June 2020, so Ill check it out. With the large number of people working in IT and content creation in India, it feels like they would be in support of bitcoin somewhat.
Ive been working on correcting this for months now. Upwork has been giving me hazy responses every time I write a ticket or call them over the phone.
I am an Indian guy working in IT myself and I love crypto. Crypto situation is not that bad here as the media reports.
Though the RBI is against crypto, we the people are supporting crypto. I am sorry you had to face the issue with your SEO.
But are you sure that those guys deliberately do it with the intention to mess with your SEO rankings ?
Indian guys generally offer less prices for the same work offered by another guy. May be you hired people who actually didn't knew what they are doing.
You could have hired professionals instead. We don't have anything against bitcoin brother.
Either the developers are not so experienced or they must have done it unintentionally.
You should try contacting those developers and ask them why they did it.