A competitor is posting to all these blogs!
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One of my competitors is posting on blogs like this getting free back links.
http://50fiftyclothing.com/blog1/
http://www.get-rid-of-bellyfat.org/tag/disease/ http://www.medicalinfo101.com/He is killing the SERP, but how am I suppose to compete when google is rewarding him with great rankings?
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Thank you all. It's like you should build two sites. One to make money on and one for long term. LOL
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Yeah, I just had a site bypass me with a bunch of crappy shotty written artlicles on domains like
biz123.semi-relevant-keyword.com
ect....
Hundreds of them, but they also keep bouncing up and down and it is for a keyword that a shotty SEO must have thought it brought in good traffic cause of shotty keyword research LOL
The funniest thing is I think it is the same SEO making the rounds in this niche that gets people quick rankings and they are there for maybe a month, then plummet - cause the sub domain structure is similar.
In any case Thompson is correct, keep running a clean campaign and they will keep bouncing around from page 1 to 50
Shane
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_It is the same old story. Hundreds of websites are still using blog networks, directory submissions, article submissions, and other spammy techniques and loz, they are ruling the SERP with top rankings. We can only pray that one day they will get caught by Google algo.
And what I feel is that you should get distracted by what others are doing. Rather do you job and hopefully, your website will manage to get better visibility soon. _
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Simply put, you need to decide whether you're building your website for long-term value or for a quick benefit that could disappear at any time.
The reality is that SEO is not fair. Never has been and never will be. Using tactics like spam blogs may very well help rankings at least temporarily. Right up until they get caught and penalized by the search engines and their entire ranking value disappears over night.
One only has to look at the litany of posters to Q&A here over the last year who have had their sites literally disappear from the search engines and their income evaporate because the questionable tactics they were using got the crap kicked out them by the SEs algorithm updates.
If you're wiling to risk the value of your site to try to get some short-term wins, and are willing to completely rebuild your site from the ground up every time you get caught, go for it. (and yes, some site owners actually operate this way and make money doing it)
Otherwise, focus on building the most kick-ass site you can, and stop worrying that other sites are "getting away with it". There's nothing you can do about what they're doing anyway, so redirect that frustration (and I know it IS frustrating!!) into energy to improve your own site and promotion.
There's my $0.02 anyway.
Paul
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