They can't hurt me!

.....right?

[internetheaven]

With the recent backlinks update I've seen alot of (probably competitors) junk sites/throwaway domains/duplicate content generators linking to me in the hope of damaging my site.

Things like 20 domains with exactly the same content all linking to me 20-50 times on each page. These show up as URL only links in Google which leads me to believe THEY have been penalised but I am certain that Google will not attribute any penalty to me as there is no way of telling if I did it to try and boost my ranking or whether a competitor did it to try and discredit me on Google.

I guess I'm really trying to start a thread to help those webmasters that jump on here saying that they have been dropped in ranking due to activities by other competitor webmasters. I'm convinced that there isn't much OTHER PEOPLE can do to influence YOUR ranking on Google negatively (other than the obvious content stealing and URL hi-jacking).

[webnewton]

This shouldn't worry you if you're not linking back to them or are concerned with such webpages in anyway.

[george123]

<This shouldn't worry you if you're not linking back to them or are concerned with such webpages in anyway>
thats 100% clear,if you dont link buck to them you are clear,i personaly have tones of those mthr%&*^'s
using autogenerated static pages that have me everywhere...oh by the way mr butler (guess you know who i mean) use the same c$%^&p i'm sure you all have seen SERPS from mr remains of the day butler jeeves...using KW+ KW+ KW+....(MY GOD PEOPLE ARE GETTING NUSTY)anyway ,i haven't lost anything ,in fact probably i gain inbount links from all those idiots even if thats a c%^&*p IBL

[george123]

and by the way duplicate those ar$%^&*ls pages with a mete refresh to an #*$! site ,use a copy softwear ,download there pages upload with the xxx meterefresh and lets see how long they will survive
PS use a freeweb host to do that

[glitterball]

When did Hunter S Thompson start posting here?

[BillyS]

and by the way duplicate those ar$%^&*ls pages with a mete refresh to an #*$! site ,use a copy softwear ,download there pages upload with the #*$! meterefresh and lets see how long they will survive
PS use a freeweb host to do that

Either a bad speller or a lousy typist...

[AthlonInside]

haha, does it consider to be a penalty if no ranking "weight" is given to a website from its backlinks? In other words, they don't "punish" you, they just don't count those links?

What if there is too much junk backlinks that Google even ignore those True links that you think *should* count? In order words what if Google treat those links that you think is good as *junk* links?

Google promise webmaster that they won't "penalise" someone from what are done by other webmasters. But we don't have CIA or SPY in GooglePlex to confirm this. They can say one thing and another thing. They do this for their good and your good, so you don't need to *worry* so much on what they do on you. While they continue to improve their search engine algorithmn.

If Google has a perfect Algorithmn, there will be no SPAM.
If Google has a perfect Algorithmn, it won't need to go IPO for money.
If Google has a perfect Algorithmn, no more research is require and thus Bharat, Brin, Page can quit their job.
If Google has a perfect Algorithmn, they don't need to post a "submit to Google" guidelines that tell people to get some backlinks first, don't place important text in images, put important keywords in the page, maximum 100 links per page, etc.

If Google has a perfect Algorithm ....

[caveman]

glitterball, LOL. :-)

internetheaven, there have been cases of one competitor succeeding in getting another player smushed, but it's pretty rare. I believe that G last year sometime actually amended their site to acknowledge that it can happen. Unfortunately there will always be dirty tricksters out there, especially in the really hot cat's.

[internetheaven]

If Google has a perfect Algorithm

If Google has the perfect business model, they won't need a perfect algorithm to get rich ... ;)