Posts tagged Competitor
SEO Consult® Unveil New Competitor Monitoring Technology – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Sep 18th
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SEO Consult® Unveil New Competitor Monitoring Technology
DigitalJournal.com (press release) SEO Consult®, a market leading company specialising in search engine optimisation have unveiled a new addition to their collection of TRAX technologies. The Cheshire-based agency have recently launched their new monitorTRAX™ technology; … |
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Apple Opens iCloud to Developers, May Be Planning Google Docs/Office 365 Competitor
Aug 1st
Apple today opened iCloud.com beta to members of the iOS and Mac developer programs. 9to5Mac was the first to report the opening, and also noticed that Apple may be including a Google Docs/Microsoft Office 365 style Web-based document editing service. The page contains a teaser for iCloud iWork, which says “iCloud stores your documents and keeps them up to date on your devices and the web. To get started, launch Pages on your iOS device and turn on iCloud.”
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Here’s the teaser:
Besides the promise of iWork in the cloud, iCloud is already sporting hosted, iOS-like calendar and contacts apps.
Developers who plan to work with the iCloud Storage APIs can sign up for a developer program here.
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Google: Q2 Earnings Destroy Expectations ‘Despite Competitor Efforts’ – International Business Times
Jul 15th
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Google: Q2 Earnings Destroy Expectations 'Despite Competitor Efforts'
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Google’s Facebook Competitor, The Google+ Social Network, Finally Arrives
Jun 28th
Google’s long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google+ Project. It has some interesting twists on the social networking model but is far from a Facebook-killer. That Name The terrible name is a bad start. Google+?…
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IntenseCash Claims SEO Terms Used by Competitor – XBiz
Apr 12th
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IntenseCash Claims SEO Terms Used by Competitor
XBiz By Rhett Pardon, XBIZ.com DENVER — IntenseCash, which operates BrokeStraightBoys.com and BrokeStraightGuys.com, has filed a trademark infringement suit against current and former operators of SordidOnes. The suit, filed nearly two weeks ago at US … |
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What if My Competitor Buys Spam Links to My Website?
Mar 28th
This question has been very often discussed. Yet, we are getting back to it again and again. Let’s try to crear up some confusions?
Here’s what makes us discuss that questions again: Whiteboard Friday from SEOmoz. The question is simple: how Google finds out that a website is building spam links?
Incoming links are not under your control, there is no simple way you can stop your website from getting links back from spammy websites. So what if my competitor buys 100s of spammy links and then points them to my website? Will Google pull my website down like JC Penney and others?
So, is there any way to remove the links from those sites? Is there any penalty for those who are involved in these kinds of unethical activities to pull down the competitor?
Track Your Incoming Links
Gary-Adam Shannon has a wonderful post about this; let me share some important points from the post:
Adam recommends two tools to be alerted of new backlinks: The Google Alert and Link Monitoring Service.
- Set the Google Alert for your website name so you will get notifications as soon as your brand is mentioned anywhere online.
- Majestic SEO (in my opinion) is the best tool for Link Monitoring. Majestic can give you a daily break down on new links and you can use their graphing systems to see link spikes.
Ok, let’s move on… now I know how to get alerts when any SPAM website is linked to me, but what are the preventives once I am under attack? Let’s suppose I come to know that there are some SPAM websites who are linking to my website and this is not natural, it clearly seems like somebody has done some link buying in against of my website, the graph shows something like this:
So What Do I Do If I Suspect I am Being Spam-Linked?
Do I have to email Google or something like that? What should I do? Keeping this situation in mind, I broke down the situation into three questions:
I emailed the same questions to one of the most creative link builders Wiep Knol. Here’s his reply:
Google’s Matt Cutts has repeatedly mentioned that they will try to prevent this as much as they can. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible, but it would be very difficult for aged domains. New domains are easier to burn with spammy links.
In most cases, Google will simply devalue the paid or spammy links, instead of penalizing the buyer. In some cases, either the link seller or the link buyers will get a penalty, but this is quite rare if you compare it to the amount of sites that sells and/or buys links.
And since it would be *really* difficult to determine which competitor has been buying links for website A, I don’t think competitor B has much risk, apart from bad press when things do come out.
Conclusion:
There is no simple way Google can track who is actually buying the links?
So, what I can do? First, don’t get obessed. In reality this kind of situation is very rare. People would hardly do this kind of investment as you can never be sure if and how it will work. Will it pull you down in SERPs? Will it be ignored? Will it result in wasted money?
Al you can do is to maintain a clear natural link building profile. Nothing is earned as hard and works as good as a crystal clear reputation!
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What if My Competitor Buys Spam Links to My Website?
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