What should I do if my competitors are using webspam techniques?

White hat search marketers read and follow Google Guidelines. What should they tell clients whose competitors use black hat techniques (such as using doorway pages) and whom continue to rank as a result of those techniques? lisawilliams, Hood River

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[TheLukejitsu]

So effectively, a black-hatter could spam his competitors sites, then report them and then get them hit with a penalty, all because your algorithm still does not work that well?

[Vince Robbins]

Hi Frank

If you click the [cc] (closed captions) button you will the text of the presentation.

You can also click the Interactive Transcript button so that you can follow the presentation, pause anywhere, repeat, and so on.

Cheers

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[emp90k]

In short, Negative SEO is possible. And post Panda, it's the new black hat SEO?

I think that's what you just told us.

[Viktor Helwer]

Love your Video Matt, usefull Information for me. Thanks!!!

[shufx]

17 spammers hate this video!

[sam00162011]

There is already a lot popping up.

[FRiKiJDM]

Now you all should spare some money, you don't have to pay hundreds of $ per month to SEO companies, you just buy few Xrumer blasts from Fiverr for 5$ and your competition is behind you.

[tabnoom]

This makes no sense at all... You are doing nothing but promoting a new business model ... "Negative SEO". How soon are we going to see services offering to spam a competitors site with 58 million crappy forum links and then report them for spam? This is leaving the door wide open for dirty SEO and nothing else.

[maydaypictures]

I am so tired of hearing "file a spam report".

[chad362wiley]

FAGGOT!