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Negative SEO

By Mert on Jul 30, 2007 in Black Hat SEO

Did you know that there are eight well known ways to take down your competition that is ahead of you in search engine rankings?

These eight ways are

  • Wikijacking
  • Google Bowling
  • Tattling
  • Google Insulation
  • Copyright Takedown Notices
  • Copied Content
  • Denial of Service
  • Click Fraud
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  2. By matt on Sep 24, 2007 | Reply

    Here is a kool article about negative seo. take a look at that

    http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/09/negative-seo.html

  3. By Jared Ritchey on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    Good article, another one to add to your list is the bogus 302 technique where a site is cloned or hijacked by scraping. It requires some skill to prevent it. However some of these 302 redirects are merely tracking URLS so you have to be keen to it happening.

    A person with a motive and some knowledge on networks and apache htaccess can take a #1 site and knock it down inside of 4 weeks if they are clever. I know guys that do it and I’ve seen them take sites and bring em to 4th and 5th pages in google from #1 positions.

    That is as blackhat as it gets.

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