Hi guys, Some guy tells me the competitors can fight against my site reputation, the result is lost my SERP. Is that possible? How could I know a competitor is fighting? Is there anyway to fight back?
Yes it is possible...You try to watch your competitors link building process through the yahoo site explorer...and also start doing the link building...
I really doubt it that someone could hurt other websites status by adding links to them and Google has stated to be aware of the possible options and will not reflect the changes necessarily. Besides, in today's competitive web niche when all webmasters are bury promoting their own websites, why would your competitors spend time ruining your web ranks, rather than working on their own link building plans?
It's possible. Competitors can use cloaking technique to flood visitors to your website for a while. Google will detect this and your site will lost some reputation in Google spiders. Blackhat linkbuilding techniques, like link farm, can also be used by your competitors to decrease your site's reputation. They build lots of blackhat backlinks to your website to decrease your site's reputation.
Yes, this is happen every second. There are only one #1 in google search and everyone is fighting for it
zhaiduo, in the past (2005-2008), it was very easy for competitors to ruin your site: linkfarms, ddos, cloacking - all these techniques were used and Google reacted on them unfortunately. However, nowadays, Google became very mature and smart in this respect. I got to know a few 'dark' people, who lost their business because of these G improvements. Their approaches just stopped working ;-)
It's possible if your competitor has deep pocket. However, I do think that it's not very good tactic. Instead of getting down your site in SERP, they could try to bring up their site. It is much easier.
Possible but very difficult to practice. If you website is established in years, it's really unlikely. Unless you got hacked and placed rubbish in your territory.
Competitors could just hire an SEO company to lower your site in the SERP´s which as I recall is much easier to hurt than to help a site.... Its tough I know, hopefully Google protects us
It happens rarely. Anything that can be done to your website by anyone (who hasn't breached access) else is likely to not affect it.
It would be very difficult for a competitor to do this. First, they have to take the time to bad mouth you. Then they have to make it into an ad copy, article, blog post etc. Finally they have to promote it. Since time = money, this isn't a good use of a companies time as it would not add any money to them, but simply take money away from you. This isn't possible considering most sites/businesses have dozens, hundreds or even thousands of competitors breathing down their necks. In short, don't worry.
This is a conspiracy theory and most of us are talking about this matter with no respected resources backed it up. I do not think anyone could give an exact insight except Google engineer themselves like Matt Cutts. If I have to express my own "assumption", it could be both yes and no. "Yes" it is possible for someone might make a dropped toward your ranking by their own tricks on link building. However, if the ranking can be fallen so easily then anyone just replicate the process to make a dump on their competitors. So it may be "No" as Google may give zero value toward that link instead of positive nor negative neither.
Oh yes it is very possible. Someone can destroy you with bad seo even if it is not true. You could have tons of good reviews and positive listsings but if someone posts something bad in the right place or enough right places they could really mess up your seo with you business, even your name. Trust me I have had this experience as well when I used to run my own hosting company. I had NO negative reviews or unhappy clients until I made the mistake of hosting some racist forum, I ended up terminating them because they was comment spamming their site and general trolling all over the net. After I did that the site owner became obsessed with me posting everywhere. Most places would delete the threads and such but on usenet they stuck and that caused me some bad seo. I had to try and overrun it with good and regular seo but the results still showed up. Also when potential clients or whoever sees these bad or negative posts/listings they wont even ask for your side of the story or even read the bad posts fully them self but they will sure write you off because of it
Sure it affects all of us. All of the above replies just remind me how cut-throat the world is in competition. I think zhaiduo should concentrate more on the seo. Build some strong backlinks.
sunsine, I saw you recently in several threads with the meaningless remarks like that. Do you read the threads before positing? The question in this thread has been answered already two weeks ago. Try to not look like a troll, write valuable posts.
Right, I used to have one of my sites being set up by my competitors. They pour spam links via blog commenting with my site links and directly lead to ban of my domain name for commenting on blogs basing on wordpress platform.