Comments on: What I learned from a new SEO competitor

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:53:55 +0000

This is definitely not a good strategy for the long term. These types of links will most certainly raise a red flag to Google and even other SEO companies. Sure, it might be an immediate impact for a site, but the repercussions are not worth the short term success. Google does not like backlinks like these and can really hurt a website in the rankings. Just look at what JCPenny went through some time back. They were reaping rewards over the holiday season, but eventually Google found out and JCPenny was no longer on top of the rankings. This literally happened over a course of a few hours once Google found out. In all, links of this caliber are not good for long term success.

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:54:52 +0000

It could possibly be a network, but from the regularity of posting and the number of sites it would definitely be one that required a whole lot of people participating. It does look like someone redistributing modified Thesis themes shortly after the big controversy between them & WordPress over the licensing options.

Since I wrote this post they’ve headed down from two to three and I got my spot at five so at least I’m back to where I was. It will be interesting to watch if they go back up to second or first because they don’t seem to be gaining new domains any more but they already have way more than anyone else targeting those keywords..

By: Business Logos

Business Logos — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:19:59 +0000

Perhaps the person owns a network sites and cross links between the sites.