Downranking with spamlinks still possible?

Hello,

do you think it is still possible to downrank a competitor with thousands of super spammy links?

Can be. Be a man, not a coward and try to compete with dignity.

Yes it is possible, but not with mindless spamming. Not going to go down in details, but you have to do "almost" proper link building for them, in order to get them penalized.

Negative SEO talk isn't allowed here I'm sure

Also if it worked, don't you think everyone would just blast their competitors?

Focus on building your own site up

I believe so yes. If their webmaster has google platform he can disavow the links and undo your attempt. But also needles to say, it's a very cowardly move to do this.

Well it definitely is possible to be a little cunt that can't rank his own site. And get hit by a banhammer along the way.

I don't think that those spammy links have any link power any longer. Previously, even the spammiest links (contextual ones), can help ranking something in the mid-range, but now it seems with all the updates in place, they are no longer working like they used to, 3 years back.
I think the search engines may have tweaked a setting, which made these links practically useless and of no value - it doesn't increase any ranking or decrease, and even search engine penalties from such links have decreased, which could potentially mean that the spam links do not do anything any longer.

Matze said:

Hello,

do you think it is still possible to downrank a competitor with thousands of super spammy links?

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