They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when you have a competitor shadowing your every move, I'm feeling far from flattered Of course we all engage in a bit of copying as far as hunting down links goes, etc. Nothing wrong with that. I do it, we all do it. But what do you do when you have a persistent SEO stalker on your ass 24/7, copying your every move ? This talentless hack is tracking down every link I get for a particular client, and copying it for his client. I put in the hours, and obtain a good link, then a few weeks later he spends about 10 seconds tracking down that same link, and copies it. The result is that my client's site and his client's site are leapfroging each other in the SERPS, much to my client's dismay I'm guessing this might be a common experience for some of you folks on here. I'd be interested in hearing a few stories.
you need to give him a hard time, try to buy 1000 Blog posts from Network owners here on digitalpoint, then after that you can continue building links, he wont know where did you get those 1000 links and he will have a harder time browsing your links to find those quality links. with those people you need "Quantity".
I already have a plan to blow him away (for a while at least), but I was just curious to hear a few other stories.
An SEO stalker.. LOL . All I would say you can do is to make sure your client has the better site design and content. If your clients content is better, it doesn't matter how many links your stalker gets that you get. You'll have organic links which he can't replicate.
Funky Mario is a good member and knows what to do. You can trust him OP. For your Copycat, there are several methods you could do to get rid of him, but most of them are not ethical. But as Mario said the method of buying 1000 cheap backlinks would confuse him. Therefore that might be a way, it is not the most effective way, but it's ok. I don't totally agree with this post. Yes it would be a possebility, but you should also know that great design costs much money. So if the financial situation of your client is good, you may concider this method aswell. One thing I would do if I were you would be: Looking for a new link for your client at a website, talk with the webmaster via messenger, pay him a little bit more for the link and make the agreement that he shouldn't accept the link of the competitors website. I do this very often and it works. Hope that my post helped. best regards Michelangelo
get the next 10 links which you own and then check your email - would give you some clues and then you can plan accordingly
Nasty method Alright so you know he's following you right? So, use that to your advantage. Buy 4-5 domains. Set them up yourself as legitimate domains within your niche. Buy some directory entries. Get the websites to PR2-4. Have him contact you for a link with a reciprocal link trading script, give him the link when he exchanges with you. Now, you have control of 5 or so links to his domain. Let a month or two pass. And then change the content of the domains to porn or gambling. Get a ton of reciprocal links with other porn/gambling websites. Drop the links to your domain from those domains. And now he's in a bad neighborhood, and you've turned the tables on him. Now he has to go into every single domain and try to figure out where the bad links are coming from, assuming he even thinks to do that which he might never figure out. Nasty, but effective. Probably fits in that non-ethical realm Michelangelo was thinking of. M