Rand Fishkin Challenges You To Take His Site Down With Negative SEO

[chauhan]

Let me try it out, I have lots of spammy content. let me give link to them using same anchor text. I know its not going to work, let me link only 100 links to them.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Did you guys read the whole thread before replying?

Let me try it out, I have lots of spammy content. let me give link to them using same anchor text. I know its not going to work, let me link only 100 links to them.

This would be very interesting. But it may very well be rigged if google has knowledge of this and decides to subtly step in.

It would be more interesting if someone in the future creates a closed case study regarding this subject.
I'm going to keep track of this thread!

'Cause someone took him up on his challenge.

Some link spammers ran a surprisingly effective anchor text bombing experiment on our homepage: https://plus.google.com/u/1/11129420...ts/UCUNUNMtFWk

Rand Fishkin
3:53 PM - 24 Apr 12
http://twitter.com/#!/randfish/statu...22163063635970

[SteveGerencser]

No, they didn't. But word has it that about half the sites that participated have been deindexed as punishment.

[weegillis]

No, they didn't. But word has it that about half the sites that participated have been deindexed as punishment.

Not being one for smiley's I'm going to break my form...

[chauhan]

Yes I have read the whole, still I want to try....

Did you guys read the whole thread before replying?



'Cause someone took him up on his challenge.

[MikeinFlorida]

The defenses that Google puts out are really amazing for anyone interested in seo to comprehend as well they should to keep as many people as possible on an even playing field.