No matter how smart you are, with the current Google algorithms, you can never run away from the possibility of your competitors destroying your presence on the Search Engines by using Google’s savvy algorithms against you. There are variety of ways, how your evil competitors can do this:
1. Google proxy hacking
2. Automated Comment spamming your website’s URL on explicit websites.
3. Automated directory submission of your website in **** directories (your ranking on Yahoo may jump but Google will surely bury you for links from such directories).
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One of the practices of Search Optimization is analysis of all aspects of a website, including inbound links, propagation methods, and overall site security. These can only be properly analyzed using professional SO tools that provide the most current methods to measure the activity and identify the areas that are potentially at risk. This data is not available to do-it-yourself or common SEO provider types or from the innumerable 'free' and widely used/recognized tools and utilities online, and thus represents the vulnerability of the majority of most websites on the Net.

The professional grade tools and utilities are provided directly to select SEO/SO profssionals that have the direct relationships with the Search Engine providers themselves, and are thus completely current and capable of delivering privileged data to establish accurate baselines. This relationship to the SE's is also one of the key things that clients need to inquire with any potential SEO/SO provider to determine the level of expertise actually available which in turn determines the overall values of proposed services.

Good, affordable, professional, ethical, Core SEO/SO is hard to come by, but is worth every penny!

Interesting that the 'provider' that made this blog entry mentions these aspects of SEO, but does not posess access to the professional tools that would make the difference in the services they provide for their clients!

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