Testing Negative SEO (Infographic)

Posted on Jul 23 2012 - 7:51am by CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pradeep Yadav, a technology lover, analyzer and  love reporting about different technologies.

We always wondered what the perfect SEO plan for the site is, but have you considered turning as an evil. Let consider one evil plan: take a perfectly good site and see if we can trash its ranking. We set up out test if we could harm a website’s Google ranking by applying “negative SEO” techniques, we took a high-ranking, very typical local business site (pool-cleaing-houston.com) and pointed thousands of low – quality paid links at the site and measured its SERP positions for its Primary Keyword phrase over several weeks. Four weeks and $45 dollars later, we succeeded in knocking our site off the front page of search results. Got some idea but better to read out more, our friends at tastyplacement come with an amazing infographic discussing.

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