Negative SEO Extortion letter

[littleman]

http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/negative-seo-extortion-letter

I guess it was only a matter of time until threats of negative seo replaced Nigerian prince scams.  Could be link bait though...

[BoL]

Pretty brazen.

Having a previewable list of where the xrumer links would go seems a bit daft though, like the writer said... you could just go 'disavow' them.

Then it got me thinking maybe some of his better backlinks are hidden in that 20k...

[gm66]

http://searchengineland.com/google-responds-mass-negative-seo-extortion-emails-200689?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main

[littleman]

To paraphrase Google:  We provided the disavow tool, so stop bugging us about it.

[Brad]

At least SEL mentions that Google used to say there was very little a competitor could do to you and how that has changed. Sounds like a deterioration of the algorithm to me.

[Rupert]

same story here:
http://tfmainsights.com/negative-seo-extortion-email/

Neg SEO insurance anyone?