Episode 193: TMBA 193 (TTR35) – SEOh No! – Sabotage SEO (What to Do About it) and the Impact of Penguin Updates

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, it's the Friday night podcast. I did all my party in last night, so it's time to work.
0:04.5	What do you say we get started, guys?
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0:15.8	entrepreneurship, travel, and lifestyle. If you're interested in more about this program,
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0:27.3	podcast episodes that take you along on our journey and expose the insider story on how we started
0:33.6	a million dollar honest to goodness product business while we traveled the globe.
0:39.5	All right, we are joined again by the spectacular Travis Jameson from Supremacy SEO.
0:44.7	We got an SEO question from a good friend, Travis, decided to pull you in today to get your
0:49.7	advice.
0:50.0	This is actually a pretty traumatizing problem.
0:53.0	We're going to talk about sabotage SEO, something that we've sort of talked about behind the scenes quite a bit, but now it's affecting one of our friends, and so let's talk about it out in the open. We've all thought about doing it, too, but now it seems to be happening to us, right, or to one of us. I've actually tested it myself on a webmd page and negative SEOed it and it's never came back.
1:14.6	So basically what we're talking about is this idea that if you send bad links to one of
1:19.6	your competitors, their site will derank.
1:21.6	And that happened to one of our friends.
1:23.6	So on May 25th, we seem to have gotten over 1,000 new links,
1:27.9	all from crappy sources.
1:29.9	We are now in the process of trying to disavow the links,
1:33.0	which is a tool that Google allows you
1:34.8	to log into their site and say,
1:36.8	these are spam links, basically, correct?
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