Would you report a competitor for using spammy SEO methods?

**KenW3** · March 20th, 2012, 1:27 PM

Wow. I have seen Build My Rank recommended on almost every forum out there.

Originally Posted by BuildMyRank

Unfortunately, this morning, our scripts and manual checks have determined that the overwhelming majority of our network has been de-indexed (by Google), as of March 19, 2012. In our wildest dreams, there’s no way we could have imagined this happening.

I admire the honesty of this service to process refunds and close up shop due to what has happened.

**Bryan** · March 20th, 2012, 1:30 PM

Originally Posted by KenW3

I admire the honesty of this service to process refunds and close up shop due to what has happened.

Was just about to say the same.

It's pretty rare nowadays to see someone being that upfront in this industry. Most likely 9 providers out of 10 wouldn't have said a word and just refunded those who complain quietly. Kudos to BMR.

**JJMcClure** · March 20th, 2012, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by David S

On another forum, I just came across this news: http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run

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LOL

"It had always been BMR’s philosophy that if we did things a bit different from other networks, we would not only have a better quality service to offer our users, but a longer life in this fickle industry."

Fickle? Er... no, Google have never liked artificial link building and you just got away with it for longer than you should have...

**grynge** · March 20th, 2012, 6:33 PM

Any service that actually gets out their and promotes itself is going to be hit by the SE's. I am not sure if this is the mob I saw advertise on John Chow but as soon as I saw it I thought wow that network isn''t going to last long. Hopefully people only purchased monthly accounts if they purchased a year or something that must really suck.

**JJMcClure** · March 21st, 2012, 3:20 AM

Originally Posted by grynge

Hopefully people only purchased monthly accounts if they purchased a year or something that must really suck.

What about income that was being generated by pages helped by those links? This has probably cost a few people..

**grynge** · March 21st, 2012, 3:37 AM

Originally Posted by JJMcClure

What about income that was being generated by pages helped by those links? This has probably cost a few people..

They should build their own network.

**Chabrenas** · March 21st, 2012, 6:56 AM

Originally Posted by grynge

They should build their own network.

Once you have done that successfully, isn't there a temptation to try to make it earn a living on top of what you built it for?

**grynge** · March 21st, 2012, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Chabrenas

Once you have done that successfully, isn't there a temptation to try to make it earn a living on top of what you built it for?

Why risk your hard work for some extra cash? If you have done it successfully you should be earning good money anyway?

They seem to have built networks with the plan of charging people for using them? So their income stream is reliant on SE's not knowing about their network.

**dschall** · March 22nd, 2012, 11:15 AM

regarding reporting a competitor, depending on what you are reporting, your sites better be squeaky clean and not doing anything similar. You may just get your site(s) looked at and put yourself under the microscope.

I have reported hacks (obvious someone hacking into a site and adding links or whatever) and seen them removed relatively quickly.