I am glad you posted this. It gives me a clear indication of the people I need to put on ignore and never do business with because they have no business ethics.
Neg SEO will not work on a strong site and Google is getting better at spotting it, and ignoring it. A properly done Local site iis completely impervious to it. I had someone run 500,000+ Russian porn links, Viagra, and assorted other links at one of my customers, and it did nothing to the site at all..
But it does show the lack of integrity and lack of imagination that an IM'er has, and in the case of some of the people in this post, it's as pathetic as they are.
The good thing is that all these people who should be trying to beat me out of my rankings are just wasting their money and time trying for the fast buck, instead of trying to out do those of us who deal with the bad and move on.
You know what I think is funny, Google always has people running around wasting their time on gaming "ranking factors", so Google can pull the rug right out from under them. Its like they do it on purpose to keep them out of the way. Like an annoying child you give a video game to occupy their little minds until their mom gets back.
Think of article marketing alone, people spend countless hours and money on article marketing, instead of on their own site. They spent, spun, and spammed, and all for naught.
They spammed forum profiles, blog comments, guest posting, press releases, everything they can, and today they waste their time and resources on neg SEO.
I know some people made money with churn and burn using these now ineffective methods, (my hat's off to those) but most blackhatters never rank anything, they just run the treadmill.
Thank you OP, BreakinBrix (a name foreshadowing of future events, mayhaps?), I appreciate you showing your true colors. Don't bother responding, you're on ignore.
BB, imagine how much better off you would be if you had simply found one quality high authority domain to get a link from each week for the last 6 months.