Okay, so let's pretend i have a site about Dogs. My main business, however, is insurance. For some lucky reason, I appear on top for insurance. Then one day, company B appears and they beat me on Google. So, one way to harm their backlinks is to create many from unrelated niches. I.e. I could create links back from my dogs website to my competition's website. I actually did this by accident to myself, so i know: It killed my site's rankings and even got banned from Google for a while. So basically, my dogs website, with it's massive traffic, is a grenade, waiting to get thrown at a site. By directing bad traffic, I can kill someone's site. And worst of all, they will think they are getting a LOT of traffic, when actually, I'm screwing them in the long run.So my questions are....Am I right? This would kill PR, or was the time it happened to me purely a fluke (it was so bad, that if you typed in dogs followed by my country name, my site would appear 4th, even though it probably doesn't have the word dogs on the entire site once).How legal is this? (i'm scared this is a normal blackhat seo tactic that already exists.... is it?)How can something like this boomerang?Why is no one doing this? Or are they?Thanks!
SEO traffic redirect bomb?
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This is morally wrong. How would you like it if the targetted site had a more authoritive site and did the same to you? All of a sudden your site isn't in SERPs? Not to mention you could be playing with someones well-established business or hard-earned income.As you mentioned, this is a black-hat SEO tactic. The victim would probably (quite easily) figure out that they received lots of links or traffic from unrelated searches, traced back to your website and they'd be well within their rights to notify Google. You'd probably end up getting your dogs site severely penalized/banned, which is just a waste if it's as reputable as you say.Google do make manual SERP alterations sometimes. After your dogs site was banned/penalized it would only be a matter of time until the targetted site returns to it's true positions.