[CASE STUDY] Sandboxing your competition

Thats pretty dumb to sandbox other, play fair game

Well i believe KARMA will do the job later

This is a good case study and someone actually did this to me on one of my old websites. The stricter Google gets with SEO, the easier it is to sabotage competition. People will do anything for money.

So what is the verdict in the end for this study? Are all KW's back to original now? Or are some still on page 1 million? Also how long between they came back?

This is a very very good case study, it shows that negative SEO works, and doesnt work (if it comes back). And if this is purely going to be dancing then it works. We just need an ending to this story, a same ending as well written as the start. Then we can extrapolate the data and we will have more know-how about their algo.

I would go off other sites below your competition a combination of their backlinks should get you to the top.

I just loaded my Xrumer up bwhahah with a nice list of retarded kws i'll try it myself.. I'll try to take down 2 of my competition for my garden site

I didn't use nono-keywords, I flooded the landing landingpages with the matching main-keyword.
That took him down.

Haha, I was searching for Swiss Banks to see what people here think and I found this thread but it looks interesting.

Any update on this Swiss? Very interesting case study.
It's a shame about all the people complaining about the morals behind this study cluttering up the thread *news flash* people do bad stuff. at:

1. Who cares if it's his friend or not - if this was being done to my site, whatever, I'd ride it and learn but until it does I'll not worry about it, life is too short to worry about every single "if", "but" or "maybe".

2. It's awesome he's shared the results (albeit a while ago now) it's a case study to learn from

3. If the people that all think it's "bad" or "karma" will sort this out, hope you all enjoy your 9-5 jobs

4. When there is money to be made, people will do anything. This should be learned early on in your IM career

I am not condoning everyone does neg SEO to try and get one over on your competition, but it happens... that's life, if it can be done, someone will do it. This case study showed (up to the last post) that it does have some affect in the SERPS, but bounced back stronger (in some areas) That's something to take away.

I'm sure some of the people complaining in this thread downloaded a "free" (should be licensed version) of software. Double standards perhaps?

Bad stuff happens. Fact of life.

Learn and prosper.

Someone did it to my site before, but after talking with google, they rank me again . ahHAhAhAhA

yes you can negatively effect a website today by spamming it

So why can't the victim of this technique just 301 those links to a competitor? Wouldn't that work?