seo contest cheap shots?

[digidogstudios]

It looks to me that this page: http://v7ndotcomelursrebmem*webyourbusiness*com/ (remove *'s) is trying to attack g00gl3r's v7ndotcom elursrebmem page.

It doesnt make much sense to me, the page isnt indexed in google yet I believe, but once it is, I really dont think it will negatively effect g00gl3r...

what do you guys make of this?

[Nintendo]

er it doesn't work, even with the * taken out and changed to .com. How about just giving us it with out the http://www part. Then it won't be a link.

v7ndotcomelursrebmemwebyourbusiness.com

[sim64]

I think he means replaces the *'s with .'s

[John Scott]

http://v7ndotcomelursrebmem.webyourbusiness.com/

Huh. I'll PM Greg and point him to this thread.

[sagbee]

Wow, another clone.... will this page also going on top 20

or Google punished his original bother who already top 10. ???

[digidogstudios]

yes sorry i meant replace the *'s with .'s

so what do you guys make of this?

[Nintendo]

I don't think any one'll sue over the contest!! Though Matt says the older domain wins with duplicate contest and on webmaster rado some one tried this with there own site, and sub.domain.com destroyed the new domain.com site!!

[digidogstudios]

good point...but still it doesnt look like he has a chance of negatively effecting g00gl3r's page...but i guess i could be wrong, last time i checked the dup'd page isnt even indexed in google yet

[sitetutor]

This contest will get ugly in a couple of months ... will be fun to watch

[sitetutor]

I'm still only page 3 ... I thought you guys all love me and give me voluntary 1 wayz just for being cool !

[Nintendo]

Originally Posted by digidogstudios

but still it doesnt look like he has a chance of negatively effecting g00gl3r's page.

Oh yes it does, BIG time. This domain was registered on...

Creation date: 18 Feb 1999 00:00:00

and as my last post shows, some one did this exact same thing with there own site, and there new domain was killed in the listings.

[Jan]

Originally Posted by sitetutor

This contest will get ugly in a couple of months ... will be fun to watch

Only 10 results left in Google. Half of the rest will be blacklisted, the other half googlewashed

[sixty6]

Oh well, what can you do!! This is all John's fault Why did you have to put so many prizes john??

[netsearch]

I had someone do this to me in the forturno winnero seo contest last year don't think it effected me they listed somewhere around 150 I finished 4th. Was not exact copy they put copy of my site into a table.

[sitetutor]

Originally Posted by Jan

Only 10 results left in Google. Half of the rest will be blacklisted, the other half googlewashed

80% of the top 30 will be gone, that's my guess.

[digidogstudios]

you make a good point nintendo... I dont know much about the dup penalty to be honest, so it will be interesting...but its kind of stupid if you ask me...

does the creator of the dup'd page want to announce themselves?

[sitetutor]

It could be a reverse seo kinda thing, like some companies are being hired to get sites talking against them, off of the top keyword searches.

[netsearch]

I think the site with highest PR or most good links wins.
Google is all about the links good quality links rule