Somebody is submitting my website to blogs! :(

what can I do?

[Noximus]

Today I found in my backward links that some links (about 50) are comming from different blogs.
I am afraid that I will be banned by G for spamming. I've not submitted my site to any kind of blogs. My compatitors are trying to ban me from the index. What can I do? Should I send email to G? Will it help?

Any edvice would be much appriciated.

Noximus

[abates]

Are the links to your site appearing in the blog entries themselves of the comments on the entries. If people are talking about your site in their blogs, that's good. :)

[rfgdxm1]

I've found from my logs lots of blog hits. None were spammed by anyone. Just people discussing the topic of my sites, and linking to them as authoratative resources.

[too much information]

I don't understand where the problem is.

People are talking about your site... good job.?:]

[Noximus]

No, nobody is speaking about my site, my site is listed in blogs beside blogger spammers' sites.
My site is listed beside them intentionally. It's done by somebody who wants to ban me from the index. :(

[Noximus]

What can I do?

[Haecceity]

You probably don't have to worry. Google *claims* that there's nothing a competitor can do to get you booted out, and it's probably true.

Google-bombing still works, and all the people linking to the Whitehouse with 'miserable failure' in the anchor text haven't gotten George Bush penalized yet. This suggests you're okay.

[Chris_D]

Just don't place a reciprocal link back to the blogs linking to you.....

[JasonHamilton]

What do you do? You thank them for the higher page rank :)

[Crush]

If anyone wants to put my urls in blogs all day ( preferably with page rank) please sticky me ;)

[funandgames]

No need to worry! They could put your link on 1,000,000 spammy vi*gra, c*sino and p*rno blogs or any sites and not a bad thing would happen. Thats a promise! Just don't link to these sites.

[allanp73]

Someone please submit my site to blogs :) I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[SlowMove]

If it was that easy to hurt your site, a good number of webmasters would be filling out blog entries with the names of competitors. The only problem I would have with 100,000 blog links to my site would be that a lot of the traffic wouldn't be qualified.

[usavetele]

OK, stupid question. I thought having your URL posted in blogs, whether done by you or someone else was VERY BAD! I hear about sites getting banned for blogging, but some of you are begging to have your URLs placed in blogs.

So what is it? Blog entries are bad or good? If good, don't you guys think that could change in the future and cause you to be banned by Google or other search engines?

Is it worth the risk to have blogs linked to you? Or just damaging only if YOU link to them? I'm so confused.

[Crush]

Just wondering now. What is the best way to take your competition out? Hypothetically of course

[edited by: Crush at 11:15 pm (utc) on Jan. 17, 2004]

[cbpayne]

Links from Blogs will not harm you.

Google are not silly - they will not penalise for links from them (they may ignore or devalue them) or it would be too easy to harm competitors. At worst they do nothing or bring unqualified traffic) and at best they boost your PR.

Like the messages above, if anyone want to submit my URL to 1000's of blogs, please sticky mail me for the URL :-)

[SlowMove]

>Just wondering now. What is the best way to take your compeition out? Hypothetically of course

Hypothetically? Ask your competitors to link to all the blog sites that link to your site.

[centrifugal]

<off topic>
>Just wondering now. What is the best way to take your compeition out? Hypothetically of course

Better website, prices, content, customer service.
</ot>
I don't think G has an auto penalty for being in blogs. I'm no expert though.

[plumsauce]

Just wondering now. What is the best way to take your compeition out? Hypothetically of course

search for weapons of mass destruction that
some miserable failure keeps mumbling about :)

[Stefan]

If they have no htaccess redirects happening for non-standard links, "site.com" etc, give them a bunch of variations via links. That will do it. There's no need to post the variations... there are a lot that can be found using the site search here. You'll eventually water down their serps, and PR, by having a whole lot of "new" index/default pages getting crawled.

[SlowMove]

removed

[edited by: SlowMove at 1:07 am (utc) on Jan. 18, 2004]

[requiem]

Just wondering now. What is the best way to take your competition out? Hypothetically of course

[Stefan]

SlowMove, an example:

REMOVED

[edited by: Stefan at 1:04 am (utc) on Jan. 18, 2004]

[SlowMove]

Thanks Stefan. There's a lot to learn from this site. I gotta start reading up on apache and .htaccess

[dsmmg]

Stefan,

You'll be happy to know that I just sent a message to the site listed in your profile doing EXACTLY what you suggested. Check your logs.

Would you like another message? Or ten? Or 1000? Perhaps it's time to go write a friendly little message writing script...?What_Were_You_Thinking sounds like a good topic, or perhaps?How_Does_This_Help_Anyone... I'll have to give it some more thought.

Don't forget that perhaps it is not the best use of anyone's time to teach others how to hurt someone else... Constructive not destructive. ;-)

[edited for spelling]

[edited by: dsmmg at 12:49 am (utc) on Jan. 18, 2004]

[usavetele]

Wow....taking the competition out unfairly. That's pretty bad when you have to resort to that. Shame!

[Stefan]

No problem, SlowMove. I shouldn't have even posted it... I've bitten my tongue about it in countless other threads.

The theory/common-knowledge is that those kinds of links should not affect the serps or PR, of the real www.theirsite.com index/default, (generally the case before Esm/Dom), but the theory is wrong these days; it sure as he*l can. Of course, the other site's webmaster might notice, and hunt you down with a spiked club in hand, so it's nothing you want to play around with a whole lot.

[Stefan]

dsmmg

As I said, I've bitten my tongue about this many times and should have again in this thread. Tell you what, I'll edit out the posts...

My point is though, that the crap that Google says about no one being able to hurt your site is a total lie.

ADDED: How you going to write a script to add links to our site? Forget that I asked... :)

[SlowMove]

I removed the quote. Still, thanks again. This is good to know even for defense.

[dsmmg]

Don't worry about how... Just ask why :-)...

BTW: Google changed the wording from there is NOTHING to there is ALMOST NOTHING...

Just a heads up.