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Through WebmasterWorld I learnt, using an automated software to extract a site's rank status for various Keypharses in Google, may prove to be harmful. With Search Engines such as AOL, Yahoo webpages etc which use Google SERP, can one use a software to get rank status in them, then extrapolating the same to Google? Do those Search Engines take offence to using a software? Even if they do, how will it affect the site's performance? they just reflect whats there in Google.
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Just not worth the risk!
To do otherwise is rude.
>Just not worth the risk!
It is posts like the above that make me wonder how true it is when Google claims that there is nothing that the competetion can do to harm your rankings. Unless one is running rank checking software using the same IP(s) the server happens to run on, there is just no way it can be known who is running these automated position checking software programs. How could Google know it was the person above that did it? And in competetive commercial areas, I can easily imagine the competition trying to sabotage another's site. Heck, I run 2 dinky information sites, and some kook who doesn't like me actually has posted on web boards that he's going to do something to get me "kicked out of all the search engines" and such. It wouldn't take much sophistication for this kook to pound Google for hours with WPG on a Netzero connection, or add my site to a lot of FFA ones, etc. Imagine how cheap it would be for a commercial site to hire some bored teenager cheap to do this sort of thing to sabotage a competitor? If people will do silly malicious things for reasons of spite, malice and revenge (I've been e-mail bombed already several times), imagine the possibilities if someone were to pay this sort to engage in mischief?
