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Let say you create a massive network of 100 domains all the same C class, all negatively optimized (that is, breaking all the rules) so that this entire network was heavily penalized by google, then link all of these domains to a competitors site with porn and herbal Viagra anchor texts.
Would it be possible that google would consider the PART of the penalized network and therefore would be penalized itself?
If this wouldn't work, is there a way to accomplish the above?
There is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index.
Straight from the horse's mouth in the Google FAQ. From this I would suspect that it's not possible. Besides if it were possible it would already be happening all over the place : )
There is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index.
From this I would suspect that it's not possible.
You may want to be careful there. I've bolded the two words in the above comment that change the entire meaning of that statement. It is one of those read between the lines comments.
There are things that could be done to have a competing website banned. Fortunately we won't discuss them here. ;)
whether correct or not, i interpret "almost nothing" to mean that there are very limited exceptions. for example, they take abuse reports so clearly you can report your spamming competitors and they could disappear if google agrees. and you certainly can hack into their web site and make unauthorized and unnoticed changes that get them banned by google.
i think the gist google is aiming at is that normal people who are not breaking the law cannot do anything to hurt an honest competitor who is following the basic google guidelines.
