Bobby - 12:32 pm on Jan 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

There is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index

That's interesting, Google wouldn't have changed that sentence had they not changed some policies.

>What could a competitor do to harm your rank?

How about track down your IP address and go to your hosting service and register some domains with the same virtual IP or very similar so that once they develop these domains as spam the server gets flagged as housing a "bad neighborhood".

Another thing could be to fill out a spam report, albeit there would need to be some *dirty, evil, conniving, low down search engine optimization tricks* on your site, something we all know that SEOs never use.

But perhaps...and I'd take this with a grain of salt, the NEW and IMPROVED G-Google might just be watching the incoming links to your web site closer than you think...