Hello,
Normally a siteis black listed in google when it is listed in the unrelated categories of the diffrent directores. My question is that suppose my competitior web site owner is listed my site in unrelated categories without my knowledge. that kind of attempt will affect my site ranking ?. If affect how can i avoid this.

Thanks

This is one of the best articles I have read on hubPages about this subject. I am doing a lot of the stuff you talk about already but some of it is new to me, so thanks for that infor. I intend to bookmark this hub and follow you so I can read more of your hubs later

In my opinion, now a days to gain higher rankings of your website in search engines like google and yahoo is really very important. In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. Nearly every website receives the vast majority of its daily visitors from Google, the dominant search engine for the past 10 years.

why would you spent time to do this to your competitor? you better concentrate to gain good results for you...

Originally Posted by dcciie251

Hello,
Normally a siteis black listed in google when it is listed in the unrelated categories of the diffrent directores. My question is that suppose my competitior web site owner is listed my site in unrelated categories without my knowledge. that kind of attempt will affect my site ranking ?. If affect how can i avoid this.

Thanks

It wont affect your sites ranking.
If your competitor list your site on there websites that do black hat seo, it doesent mean that your site would be penalized in any way.

I do understand what you are thinking.. this is called reverse seo.. well it does happens in high profile website.. how many website can your competitor bring down..well you are not the only competition.. its just a waste of time.. its not going to fetch him any money.. try to think positive..

Originally Posted by carlton_david31

why would you spent time to do this to your competitor? you better concentrate to gain good results for you...

I do not think this is a good idea as a competitor. There are lots of competitor in a certain keyword. It makes me confused that they are giving an effort in destroying one's image rather than promoting their own sites?

i don't think investing time to work for other website is good any more. but i also want to know if that will work.

submission wrong category is a bad practice but if we do it for competitors, i don't know actually what will happen with their website.

please someone gives own opinion on this topic

You would not want to do that to your competitor because why spend time on bad practice when you can spend same time and beat the crap out of your competitors. This is how a good seo would think.

I see it as a desperate tactic in gaining reputation in a certain niche industry.

Originally Posted by dcciie251

Hello,
Normally a site is black listed in google when it is listed in the unrelated categories of the diffrent directores. My question is that suppose my competitior web site owner is listed my site in unrelated categories without my knowledge. that kind of attempt will affect my site ranking ?. If affect how can i avoid this.

Thanks

Surely, it is hard to monitor such reverse SEO activities like that. Well, try to contact the webmaster and tell them it was not really you who submitted there.

Originally Posted by francis84

Surely, it is hard to monitor such reverse SEO activities like that. Well, try to contact the webmaster and tell them it was not really you who submitted there.

How? It kinda hard. How can you prove that you are not the one who submitted your link there? How come?

Originally Posted by racheljohn

PageRank is a simple page rank. The question now is, what is the ranking of a page? The ranking is a web page's "importance " or "value " of the page. This is the key concept of Google Page Rank algorithm - page rank with a high value will be higher.

You are right. PR is not necessarily your rank in Google but the measurement of your site backlinks.