Doing just that is a black hat technique that I have used in my dim and distant past to piss off someone who was causing me problems. I simply grabbed his profitable site, placed it on another domain. with the same structure where I had built up a far higher page rank than he had across his site. Then fed it to the spiders and cloaked the duplicated content and had no cache. he simply disappeared from google overnight after the my copy site was indexed. I then made contact with him and got him to curb his antics and bad mouthing of me and my business. it was costing him a fair bit of money to be out of google.
He never did work out how I did what I did to him, just that when I said I would take him down and he bragged that 'no-one can hurt anothers rankings' (according to google webmaster guidelines). I pointed out that they state " there is ALMOST NOTHING, a competitor can do to harm your site". Almost nothing to me said there WAS SOMETHING. he found out the hard way, and it was my one and only venture into black hat methods on an open basis. Of course I used black hat methods on my own sites to test them out and see how they worked etc. You have to do this so you can learn how to combat them properly.
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