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Its totally bizarre that so many people who comment on SEO can't seem to understand that you can make almost any page tank for the phrases it ranks for with link spam.
People who think that's not possible know nothing about link building on any real scale as its been a problem and one of the most basic for many years.
You can go to any black hatter forum like Black Hat World and often at least 10% or more of the threads on the first page are some idiot asking the same question about why his page is gone for that pages phrase, is it banned etc. Its such an old and total n00b discussion.
Its been like this since maybe 2008 or 2009.
Yes, you can cause another persons page drop out of the SERPs for a phrase it ranks for by simply firing up scrapebox or xrumer or any other mass link building tool and hitting it with links with that phrase as the anchor.
Yes, unless that page is strong (age, quantity of legit inbound links, from where, their age/relevance etc), it will be gone and stop ranking for that phrase for 1-2 months or so. Initially, it was shorter periods... days, then weeks, now it seems that every time I push, it ends up being 8 weeks or so before that page comes back. The last site I cared about that I was building a moderate volume of links (blog comments, auto-blog creation with spun text, xrumer links etc) to for a few cam phrases dissappeared for at least 3 months for those phrases. Its just part of the game and much better than the domain being banned.
Yes, its something that black hatters deal with constantly.
Yes, its something people do to each other constantly.
No, Google doesn't give a fuck about you and your precious website. They care about their search results. Linkspam effects search results. It doesn't matter who is doing it... you or a competitor. Who is screwing with you is irrelevant to them and with trillions of pages indexed, your page is irrelevant as much as people think the earth should rotate around it their website.
No, you don't matter. No, your site doesn't matter. And even though people can cause a page of yours to drop out of the SERPs for a phrase it ranks for... no, this behavior does not even account for the tiniest measurable fraction of total pages indexed... so get over yourself and stop thinking you matter so much both to Google and to Netizens worldwide.
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