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Hi,

I've attached a copy of our Google ranking for one of our keywords for our site and a competitor. Also shown is the number of external links over time for the same 2 sites.

There seems to be a striking resemblance between the 2 sites so could this be the result of negative SEO?

What's the best way to determine whether you've been targeted for negative SEO?

Thanks,

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You can also use a proxy server to mask your location. You can either enter the proxy server details in your web browser so all your web requests pass through a proxy server in US or UK so Google will think you're in one of those countries.

You can also get free online proxies where you enter the web address in field on a website - this can be better for a quick check.

Search on Google for "free proxy".

What do you mean by zones? They will be targetting:

• retail sofas
• wholesale sofas
• funky sofas
• leather sofas

Hi,

We're building 4 e-commerce stores at the moment which are all very similar. They all sell sofas but to different markets. Product content will be different on each site so the content won't be duplicated but the overall theme of the sites will be the same, all on the same server, being launched at the same time.

Should I be concerned that Google may not index all of them?

Thanks,

Andy

Hi,

I was wondering what everyone's general strategy is for link building. We're doing it all ourselves manually (i.e. not paying $5 for 100,000 links) and are using the Site Explorer tool to find links to competitors and related websites.

The majority of sites are blogs and directories which ask for payment ($50 per month for example). We're obviously looking for free links as well but we're finding that pretty much every site wants something in return (cash or reciprocal link) - unless the content is amazing, why would anyone link to another site without an incentive?

We're focussing heavily on content and writing articles, blogs, press releases every week but the subject matter isn't always exciting enough for someone to really want to link to it naturally.

Thoughts?