Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'competitors'

Google Defends Bad Link Theory & Repeats That Competitors Can't Hurt You

There is no doubt that Most SEOs Believe Competitors Can Hurt Your Google Rankings specifically with using link building tactics. But when the topic was raised recently at a Google Groups thread, Googler, JohnMu, pretty much denied it. Let me...

Damage Your Competitors Google Image Rankings With Links

So we see that most SEOs believe a competitor can hurt your search rankings, we also wrote an article on How To Penalize Your Competitor's Site in Google but now we have a new WebmasterWorld thread on image search. The...

Most SEOs Believe Competitors Can Hurt Your Google Rankings

About a week ago I ran a poll that asked Can Someone Hurt A Competitors Google Rankings With Links? I ran the poll because there is a lot of debate around this topic. So I figured, why not ask you...

Poll: Do You Report Your Competitors as Spam in Google?

search_engine981:http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017077.htmlAnn Smarty goes through the conflicts of reporting competitors as spamming Google search results. Yes, this is a topic we covered many times here, including: Reporting Spam: Is It EthicalHow Can I Report Spam to Google?Google Spam Reporting WorkingDoes Google...

"Operation Camouflage" Allows You to Hide From Competitors, But Can't You Just Place Your Ads Lower?

There is an interesting proposition on the Engine Ready Newsletter about a Google AdWords strategy called Operation Camouflage that involves advertisers to geotarget their ads away from their competitors so that their competitors believe that they have stopped advertising (and...


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