Thread: how to bring competitor down in SERP

Sometimes people try to bring down a competitor slamming their site with tons of krapplinks anchored with dirty, adult keywords or other garbage anchors. But I'd try the opposite tactic: I'd go to SEMRush and see what Top 3-5 highest-traffic money keywords they were already ranking for -- and target those. I'd use MarketSamurai's Competition module to see whether those keywords were already over or under-weight in their backlink profile - and then hit them hard _with exactly what they want to rank for_.

The way Google is behaving post-Pengiuin if you link heavily saying 'my site is about keyword X/Y/Z' -- Google will put a -50 or -100+ penalty on THOSE X/Y/Z keywords and the organic traffic for those exact terms will utterly collapse. Suddenly, no keywords that really matter are on Page 1-4. They'll only be left limping on only the most obscure long-tail keywords for months or YEARS to come.

I know for a fact this works -- I've inadvertently did it to MYSELF on a few sites by pushing certain important keywords too hard!

P.S. I'd also try to get bad links placed on as many DEINDEXED root domains as possible. They're just utterly TOXIC these days.

Hitman seo services. Hey Joe I like that buddy. Lol. You even gave a slogan with it! LOL.
I would never do that. As much as Google changes things I bet if you just keep doing things right the other person will slip up and be knocked down a notch. Then you can take pride in knowing you did it right!

---------- Post added 08-31-2013 at 08:14 PM ----------

Originally Posted by macgizmoguy

Sometimes people try to bring down a competitor slamming their site with tons of krapplinks anchored with dirty, adult keywords or other garbage anchors. But I'd try the opposite tactic: I'd go to SEMRush and see what Top 3-5 highest-traffic money keywords they were already ranking for -- and target those. I'd use MarketSamurai's Competition module to see whether those keywords were already over or under-weight in their backlink profile - and then hit them hard _with exactly what they want to rank for_.

The way Google is behaving post-Pengiuin if you link heavily saying 'my site is about keyword X/Y/Z' -- Google will put a -50 or -100+ penalty on THOSE X/Y/Z keywords and the organic traffic for those exact terms will utterly collapse. Suddenly, no keywords that really matter are on Page 1-4. They'll only be left limping on only the most obscure long-tail keywords for months or YEARS to come.

I know for a fact this works -- I've inadvertently did it to MYSELF on a few sites by pushing certain important keywords too hard!

P.S. I'd also try to get bad links placed on as many DEINDEXED root domains as possible. They're just utterly TOXIC these days.

I had to Laugh Bro. I could picture you doing that to your self and then I am thinking of how I would react because that sounds exactly like something I would do! Work myself down in Rank!

Think of raising your SERP rather than pulling your competitor down.

Originally Posted by timoinfiji

In case you have a strong competitor which leads the SERP and your client want to bring him down, what you will do, which steps? ( this can be of course a real scenario)

don't try to do that is is not a good ideal instead why not concentrate in building your client site such that it has all it takes to compete with your competitor, also explain to him

---------- Post added 09-03-2013 at 12:18 PM ----------

exactly what am saying it may back fire

Originally Posted by patricianian

Don't try to harm your competitors cause they can do the same for you. Sometimes doing negative seo for a competing site might back fire
Keep working on your sites and try to rank higher instead, this is the most ethical way to go with.

in the group that I follow them said 'to beat competitors and dropped it, just give them a backlink from google banned websites such as sex sites'