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What are the chances our competitors on first page of google used blackhat to get their?

by Bozigian
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For myself I have researched one of my opponents on the first page of google and checked the backlinks from their website and saw they only had like 13 links showing. I was like 'say what'

Anyways, many people are trying to rank number one for their keyword. I remember one person made a thread here how he got to page one of google on his keyword that had 70,000 searches and he purchased these packages on fiverr and got his site to number one in less than a month. No offense to him, I am not dissing him.

Anyways this got me thinking since Google will slap a website if they discover black hat techniques. Then what are the chances that each of your competitors used black hat techniques to get to page one of google?

Does this mean we should use Black hat techniques as well and level the baseball field?

Btw; how come when I put the phrase black hat on this post, it changes to bluefart?
#blackhat #chances #competitors #google #page
  • Profile picture of the author RickDayle
    Hard to tell where your competitor's traffic or backlinks came from, with time their ranking may change abruptly if it wasn't from good sources.

    Any time you resort to less than ethcal approaches to "level the field" you become "one of them". In my opinion, it just isn't worth it. Most of the time, after awhile, honesty and perserverance will prevail, but I know it's hard to accept an apparently unfair advantage taken by a competitor meanwhile.

    On your ending question, I can't find it right now, but recall reading in one of the faqs or other information about the site, there are a few phrases or words that are prohibited in post titles (like spammer and blackhat). The system is set up to automatically substitute an alternate... Notice that your tags also changed...
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  • Profile picture of the author chasnsx
    Look at it this way: If I look at my competitor, and I go through his backlinks using a backlink checker like backlinkwatch.com, and 250 of his links are on 50 websites, and every one of those websites has the name bestnicegifts.com, or some variation thereof, and I visit the page and it is nothing but a bunch of fake article headings and a lot of links, then it is a safe bet that my competitor is using bluefart SEO.
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