de-indexing competitor

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hi,

I am curious whether can I be safe. I am making each day hard work, building backlinks for my sites

Can one day some of my competitors buy some spammy backlinks for my site and in the result de-index me?
#competitor #deindexing
  • Profile picture of the author gameutopia
    I would find it hard to believe a competitor would go to that much work to try to put a dent in your traffic or google index. Avoid the not allowed practices and techniques and you should be alright. It would take a lot of effort and work to get you deindexed. I don't see that happening. Usually it tends to be onsite practices that get you deindexed, but there are other extreme cases I have heard about, but they tend to be rare.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by gameutopia View Post

      I would find it hard to believe a competitor would go to that much work to try to put a dent in your traffic or google index. Avoid the not allowed practices and techniques and you should be alright. It would take a lot of effort and work to get you deindexed. I don't see that happening. Usually it tends to be onsite practices that get you deindexed, but there are other extreme cases I have heard about, but they tend to be rare.
      You'd be surprised how ruthless some people can be. But I think, at the very worst, Google and other SE's will just devalue the links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Miroslav Chodak
    It's not likely to happen. You can be penalized for who you link to, but not for who links to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author hurn
    nop competitor can't do that.. Google will manually review your backlinks if you site has so many paid links. for a example JCpenny
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    • Profile picture of the author derekad
      Originally Posted by hurn View Post

      nop competitor can't do that.. Google will manually review your backlinks if you site has so many paid links. for a example JCpenny
      if to order lot of backlinks from fiverr

      or make lot of them using scrapebox?
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      • Profile picture of the author DamenRabat
        If this was possible, everyone would just buy a few back link services and have them bombard a competitor´s site with thousands of back links. I trust Google to be smart enough to take this into consideration.

        In that, my feeling is that it is highly unlikely that a site could be de.indexed by having too many back links.... no matter where they come from.

        Regards,
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        • Profile picture of the author derekad
          Originally Posted by DamenRabat View Post

          If this was possible, everyone would just buy a few back link services and have them bombard a competitor´s site with thousands of back links. I trust Google to be smart enough to take this into consideration.

          In that, my feeling is that it is highly unlikely that a site could be de.indexed by having too many back links.... no matter where they come from.

          Regards,
          that question comes to my mind after reading lot of stories when somebody wrote something like:

          "I tried some of spamming services or used some spammy automation tools( scrapebox, etc ) and noticed I have been de-indexed"

          so I wonder how Google detects whether site owner have done that work or owner' competitor to eliminate owner' site ?
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    In this way,your site wont deindexed,Actually even if your deindexed it will come back after sumitting information to google.So don't worry too much.
    And be careful to get backlinks for a site when its age is less than one year
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    • Profile picture of the author derekad
      Originally Posted by masterjani View Post

      In this way,your site wont deindexed,Actually even if your deindexed it will come back after sumitting information to google.So don't worry too much.
      And be careful to get backlinks for a site when its age is less than one year
      so if I buy already existing domain with age > 1 year, then can I be not careful with backlinks?
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      • Profile picture of the author Heather H
        You should always be careful with backlinks. Quality links seem to be becoming way more important than spammy ones, and they seem to hold more and more weight. Onsite content is also important. Google wants a "good visitor experience".

        Heather

        Originally Posted by derekad View Post

        so if I buy already existing domain with age > 1 year, then can I be not careful with backlinks?
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  • Profile picture of the author royljestr
    No it won't happen. If it could happen you could do it to all of your competitors and just dominate Google.

    Google is way smarter than that!!
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  • Profile picture of the author icharich
    i think google smarter than that..it wont happen
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    I don't think that there is a de-indexing competitor, and i believe that it will always depend on your effort on how you handle your site.
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