"SEO Black Eye"

[arora]

Guys,

On my travels thru the www - I came across an excellent post about "seo black eye".

The methods listed to get the competitors site down in the SERp's and penalized by google are the same one's that you would use to optimize your site BUT with a twist!

So to give a site a "SEO black eye" you have to indulge in the following activities:-

1. Buy thousands of links from bad neighborhood sites from a dodgy site/s in a remote corner and point them to your competitors site

2. use 301/302 re-direct hi-jacking

3. hundred's of links from the same IP address

4. Duplicate content:

4a) from scraping the competitors entire site and creating your own from it

4b) from stealing your competitors articles and submitting them to article submission services


I am posting it here for you all to see and be aware of this menace!

Please remember "with knowledge comes responsibility" - hopefully none of you will ever do this to your competitor as the same thing can be done to your site - once detected!

It might be old news for some of you here, but thought i will post it here nonetheless.

The whole forum post can be read here.

Goodness me, i was either living under a rock or not thinking out of the box.


Abhishek Arora

[KingPin]

Exactly why I don't let anyone know my money making sites for the reasons mentioned above.

Sad but true things like that happen when you get a jealous competitor. I had the experience first hand.

KP

[OldWelshGuy]

Originally Posted by KingPin

Exactly why I don't let anyone know my money making sites for the reasons mentioned above.

Sad but true things like that happen when you get a jealous competitor. I had the experience first hand.

KP

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE

But he missed out a good few things that can be done to harm a site. Bloody Lightweights

[CoxysBlog.com]

yea, get a net and DDoS or HTTP flood resulting in heavy lag/time outs and bandwidth flooding

[OldWelshGuy]

But that will not hurt it with regard SEo long term. it might cause a blip if you can time your DDOS with the spiders, plus a DDOS attack is illegal sabotage. the other stuff is almost impossible to prove.

[arora]

Go on OWG,

Enlighten us all!

Originally Posted by OldWelshGuy

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE

But he missed out a good few things that can be done to harm a site. Bloody Lightweights

[OldWelshGuy]

Not a chance . I am a white hat, i learn and practice black and grey hat for fun on my own test sites. As Sun tzu said " to defeat your enemy you must first be your enemy"

[TheeCommerceConsultant]

As Sun tzu said " to defeat your enemy you must first be your enemy"

Yes and he also said
"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. "

[smeagain]

Acknowlidging that it is possible and does happen, is completely different to "Tutoring" the mischievous and unscrupulous.

As an SEO, I have known for some years now that there is a way to sabotage a competing site and have had it confirmed by a Google executive. As a result of some probing questions from me, his exact words that I remember to this day were:
"There is almost nothing a competitor can do to adversely affect the performance of a site in Google search results"
Now note the calculated use of the word almost.

[DirectoryMan]

Thanks for the info. I guess to ensure Google doesn't miss it the perpetrator fills out a Google Spam report on the site. I have heard that a report can trigger a manual review.