The Coming Tide Of SEO Tattletales

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http://searchengineland.com/the-coming-tide-of-seo-tattletales-77530

I've had people from this forum rat me out on articles I've spammed up the serps so this was an interesting read. It stirs up the moral issue of "to rat or not to rat" and I typically take the stance of the latter just bc I don't proactively try to be a piece of shit, but lately more marketers are doing it to me so if it's that kind of party I am sticking my dick in the mashed potatoes too. Negative seo is obviously infuriating when you're the victim but nevertheless this article elicits ideas on how to accomplish said tattling.
 
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"Get ready for the next wave, because it’s coming. Can you imagine a time when your link profile is a competitive advantage, not only because of its obvious SEO value, but because it contains no paid links a competitor can out? Can you see the value in having a squeaky clean SEO footprint that no competitor could prey on? Be ready, because in the future competitors will not only report you to Google, they’ll report you publicly."

So there are ten guys ahead of me for "sell cupcakes" and I grab their domains, buy them each sidebar links on porn sites, and then rat them out to google and make up the difference.

D o u b t f u l.
 
ericchristopher said:
"Get ready for the next wave, because it’s coming. Can you imagine a time when your link profile is a competitive advantage, not only because of its obvious SEO value, but because it contains no paid links a competitor can out? Can you see the value in having a squeaky clean SEO footprint that no competitor could prey on? Be ready, because in the future competitors will not only report you to Google, they’ll report you publicly."

So there are ten guys ahead of me for "sell cupcakes" and I grab their domains, buy them each sidebar links on porn sites, and then rat them out to google and make up the difference.

D o u b t f u l.
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The only way I can see this working is to do it over a large time frame, gradually buy shitty paid links, wait a while for them to be seen as "authentic", then out.
 
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The author is an idiot and the future is not whitehat.

If I can get a site offline just by reporting blackhat link methods I can take a white hat site I want offline, send a huge xrumer blast and then reporting it as being blackhat.

This type of reporting isn't going anywhere because it is so easy to abuse.
 
He talks like writing big articles about people buying links and outing it to the press is going to cause negative opinion of a brand. That's retarded consumers don't give a fuck if you buy links or not I'd bet most of them would assume any business that isn't retarded is buying links

The only people who do care is Google because it makes them look like retards that someone can buy their way to the top of their golden goose and their golden eggs of "relevance" is put at jeopardy.
 
kingfish said:
He talks like writing big articles about people buying links and outing it to the press is going to cause negative opinion of a brand. That's retarded consumers don't give a fuck if you buy links or not I'd bet most of them would assume any business that isn't retarded is buying links

The only people who do care is Google because it makes them look like retards that someone can buy their way to the top of their golden goose and their golden eggs of "relevance" is put at jeopardy.
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this.

I once went to a lecture about how Google worked using maths (eigenvectors and the power method). The person sitting next to me said "I thought companies just paid to be a the top anyway."
 
We all remember the first time NYT cried 'foul' and JCPenny got the slap.

Then ....the NYT cried 'foul' on 1-800-Flowers and basically get told to fuck off.

This is not the future of SEO.
 
Getting outed for buying links is only likely to spring up when you suddenly start ranking for primary keywords. Isn't this what happened with JCPenny?! Reporting spam is a little different because you can't do this anonymously can you?! I thought you had to be logged into your Google account and so if you ever did report anyone then that would likely attract attention to your own sites and link profiles. Either way, ratting out is a lameass thing to do that would likely come from someone who doesn't possess the talent or work ethic to get to #1 and so they have to pull a shitty underhand move like that. White hat can work in some areas, but in profitable niches you just don't stand a chance. Think of credit cards, where 1000s of guys are shooting for anchor text and then you have the billion dollar companies like Mastercard and Visa with unlimited budgets for promoting their services. Good luck with trying to link bait that shit.
 
Google is not retarded. Obviously 95% of the people reporting links are competitors trying to bump off the sites ahead of them in the rankings. If anything, Google uses this as a flag to look at the reporter's sites. The report paid links form is part of GWT, which conveniently has a list of all your sites as well. It's not that much of a stretch to think that Google is probably checking not only the accused's sites, but yours as well. So unless you want to flag your sites as some to watch, it is probably not a worthwhile endeavor to rat on your competition.

tl;dr don't be a rat

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kingfish said:
He talks like writing big articles about people buying links and outing it to the press is going to cause negative opinion of a brand. That's retarded consumers don't give a fuck if you buy links or not I'd bet most of them would assume any business that isn't retarded is buying links
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^^ basically this.

Ever have an seo chat with someone that has No idea about seo, like the average consumer? You'd get the same look if you were speaking Klingon.
 
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