A Google Webmaster Help thread starts off with a webmaster who is asking why his web site is not ranking well. The thing is, it isn’t his web site, it is probably a competitor’s web site.
He is just trying to get attention to a competitor who looks to be doing shady stuff so Google will take notice and manually take action on the site.
He wrote:
Then after a few posts and him being frustrated, he goes on about how this site ranks for all types of keywords and it is not fair.
John Mueller of Google responded basically telling him to worry about his own site. Deceiving users to thinking it is his site just to play a game won’t help him rank his own web site. John explains that you can report the site as spam via the normal spam report tools but outside of that, this won’t do any good. John wrote:
We covered similar topics in the past:
Blaming Others As A Ranking Factor In Google? No!
Competitors Spamming? Google Says Report Them
SEOs Are No Longer United & I Blame The NoFollow
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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