Back links vs Back Fire
Here is a twist on a scheme..
Several clients have been getting emails stating their site's url has been added to the sender's site's link page and please provide a reciprocal link when they have time..
The thing is, the site would be something like wood-tables-and-chairs.com and it would be nothing but links to competing sites all in the same market.. 2 days later.. same email from wood-furniture.com then chairs-with-cushions.com. Nothing but competing links again.. (Usually a copy of the page from the 1st site.) This has happened several times with derivatively named, hyphenated, keyword domains.. (those above are ficticious)
My question is ...Is this site trying to bump its competition out of the engines or impact their position by buying a few domain names, adding all its competitors EXCEPT themselves, and making it look like a link farm(& FFA) with the associated negative impact?
An altruisic trojan horse of sorts?
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