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Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
In an article by Forbes magazine 6/28/07:
Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer for Google, says that piling links onto a competitor's site to reduce its search rank isn't impossible, but it's extremely difficult. "We try to be mindful of when a technique can be abused and make our algorithm robust against it," he says. "I won't go out on a limb and say it's impossible. But Google bowling is much more inviting as an idea than it is in practice."
Cutts also points out that any potential for sabotage exists across all search engines. "It really should be called 'search engine bowling,' " he says.
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Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
That's not so good news. Google should do something about it.
Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
It should, but it cant protect us all... But, I think you always can count on their support, if you are in trouble. My friend received a mail from their search quality team:
From: Google Search Qualiti
Subjekt: Removal from Google's Index
Dear site owner or webmaster of ...,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.
The following is some example hidden text we found at ....:
eBook download SMSC Connectivity SDK 2.1.0.2 freeAutodesk Showcase 2008 R3Adobe Press Adobe Bridge Official JavaScript Reference Oct 2005 eBook oem VERITAS NetBackup Enterprise Server 6.0 (3 cds) softwareAdobe PhotoShop 9.0 CS2 (1 cd)VanDerLee UnPlugged-X 2.0 for Adobe Photoshop free Roxio Crunch 1.0 for Mac softwareAutodesk Autocad LT 2005 (1 cd)Cakewalk Dimension Pro Expansion Pack 2 software Visibooks The Visibooks Guide to PERL Basics Mar 2006 eBook softwarePrint Explosion Deluxe 3.0 for Mac
In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from ... are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days.
We would prefer to keep your pages in Google's index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html. When such changes have been made, please visit google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration.
Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team
Note: if you have an account in Google's Webmaster Tools, you can verify the authenticity of this message by logging into google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?hl=en and going to the Message Center.
Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
Thanks for this useful information
Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
Now, the big problem for me is how could we protect us from such bad manners.
Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
ones effort is better spent on optimising your own site rather than trying to sabatage someone elses!
Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
It is also in my mind, just do your own work, but it won't hurt to keep an eye on your competitors.Originally Posted by The Leader
Re: Matt Cutts openly admits sites can be sabotaged by competitors
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Thanks for the article very interesting
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