down google with the "help" of competitor

Is it possible to be lowered in google SERPs by competitors' dirty tricks?


Jerome

"Jermoe Twigg" <j299ereo (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Is it possible to be lowered in google SERPs by competitors' dirty tricks?


Jerome



Yes - just by getting their site above yours I suppose. What were you

thinking about exactly?

Yes - just by getting their site above yours I suppose. What were you
thinking about exactly?

Yes what will happen if:

1. competitors start adding url to link farms, etc. it could lower a rank.
2. competitor do mirror pages in other domains, etc. etc.

Juzi wrote:

1. competitors start adding url to link farms, etc. it could lower a
rank.

I think what happens here is that the page goes up the SERPs quickly,
then falls (to the original level) as the "bad links" are discounted.

2. competitor do mirror pages in other domains, etc. etc.

If the mirror page had a higher PR then the original might be dropped
from the index.... thats how the duplicate filter seems to work.

I'm not sure how much other info the dupe filter checks before
dropping the duplicate:
e.g. ip address - both pages on the same server
whois data - both pages similar owner/nameservers etc..

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Mike

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:53:01 +0200, "Jermoe Twigg"
<j299ereo (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Is it possible to be lowered in google SERPs by competitors' dirty tricks?


Jerome

A couple of members of this NG are trying this right now with one of
my sites. They are link spamming what they consider my competitors
links on guestbooks, forums and blogs and anywhere else you can add a
free link.

Since getting penalised for link spamming is rare there is a very good
chance it will work. So rather than harming my site, they are trying
to help the sites they perceive as my competition.

Not much use to someone who wants the SERP for themselves, but if you
just want to be vindictive it's workable.

Fortunately long term this technique is likely to fail because these
types of links tend to degrade significantly over time (more spammers
add links etc..). So though the other sites may get a boost short term
when they loose interest (which they will) the majority of what they
are attempting will slip. For it to work long term they will have to
continually spam.

David
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