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Posted By: martinbowling 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
Last year, we looked at the impacts, if any, of negative SEO on websites, a discussion which arose from a Forbes article on the saboteurs of search. One year later, we're still discussing the consequences and seeing if negative SEO is still possible.
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from SlightlyShadySEO 67 days ago #
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Negative SEO is not only possible, but getting more and more possible each day. The more restrictive google gets about linkbuilding activities, the more issues this is going to create.

Some day it may be easier to de-rank competitors(who aren't extraordinarily well established) then it will be to outrank them. And that is going to be a nasty day.

from MikeDammann 67 days ago #
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You can for the right amount of money get your competitor's site banned, defaced, blacklisted, destroyed and what have you.

from bhanu 67 days ago #
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Very true...I agree with "SlightlyShadySEO". Negative Seo is growing on a daily basis. The more you restrict, the more it grows.

from rhcerff 67 days ago #
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While the search engines use off-site means to rank a webpage this will remain a posibility.

from hugoguzman 67 days ago #
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While I couldn't disagerr more with rhcerff's opinion (it is on-site factors that are most easily gamed) I couldn't agree more with Shady.

It'll be a sad day when unscrupulous SEO's are given license to buy links, point them at their competitors, then report them to Google to push their rankings.

And that day could be here real soon...if it's not here already.

from SlightlyShadySEO 66 days ago #
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@hugoguzman: You would be amazed. I was talking to a friend of mine who is not even the "darkest of the dark" in terms of SEO. We're both constantly getting requests for things like this. And not from the uninformed either. More inhouse teams, and domain owners who already run heavy SEO on their domain.
Neither of us are taking these requests, but I'm finding typically the offered amount for this "service" is between $5,000-$7,000 for what would amount to a quick job. The demand is there, and people(though not me) are going to fill it soon.


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