How to "look like" a link farm...duplicate content... :: Sabotaging Competitors
WebProWorld :: Sabotaging Competitors: "First purchase a few different domain names (they are pretty cheap like $9/year) Doesn't matter what they are.Next find the IP address of your competitors website.
Now, create a DNS record for your new domain names to point your competitors IP Address.
Last, put links to those domain names on your website, maybe hidden links or something.
The result will be that google will spider each domain and will eventually consider your domain names and the competitors website to be duplicate content of each other, and it will majorly hurt its rankings.
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How did I learn this?
Simply we purchased many domain names, and didn't have the time to build websites for them, and so we pointed the domain names (via the DNS) towards the IP address of our main search engine. The next thing you know all of our domain names that were pointed including the main website was kicked 2-4 pages deep in the rankings. So we removed ALL domain pointers and within one month our main website was back at the top 5.
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But the question was, "how does one protect one's self from this?"
Document your losses meticulously, document your competitor's activities. If there is a website with your content on it that may be affecting your rankings (use this: http://www.copyscape.com/ ) document its existence, make screenshots with datestamps, have others do this, record whois info on the offending domain
posted by Jen @ 7:59 AM
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