Thoughts on sneaky competitor

Link from spam site hurting rankings?

[Mabel_Minn]

I've created a website for company A. Company B is their top-ranking competitor in Google. Company B has 6 or so copies of their site masquerading as unique sites and taking up much of the top listings in Google. Now I see that company B has added a link to company A from what appears to be a doorway page...clearly a spam page anyway. Is that going to hurt company A's ranking in Google? Anything we can do to stop them? Thanks for your input.

[sugarrae]

One single link (even several) won't hurt you without being recirpocated. The scrapers will pick you up soon anyway - and they definitely won't answer your requests to remove the links.

If you want to talk about/opinions on dealing with competitors who are spamming and clogging the serps, Google News [webmasterworld.com] would be the best place for that question. Let's be sure to keep this on topic. Thanks. :)

[Mabel_Minn]

ok, thanks for your help!