Can
competitors create a negative impact on Google rankings by launching
negative link building campaigns? That is, creating links from spammy
low quality sites.. there are differences in the manner in which Google
has opined recently!
Now it reads:
Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm
your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re
concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the
webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes
information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these
pages.
Before it read:
There’s almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or
have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another
site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site
in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on
the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.
Google: Can Competitors Harm Ranking
There are several threads saying that this change means that negative
SEO is possible and Google admits it by changing this statement. We
have threads at WebmasterWorld, TrafficPlanet and Google Webmaster Help.
In fact, the Google Webmaster Help thread was from April 18th, so I
am not sure what was changed on May 22nd, because the content copied and
pasted in that thread is exactly what I see there. I am thinking maybe
the video above the content was added, since Google published that video
last week.
What do you make of this statement change, which again happened at
least back by April 18th. Update, it was around March 14th as Hobo-Web
has it on their blog then.
Source:
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-can-competitors-harm-me-15210.html