This experiment aims to get BAD companies deranked from the Search Engine Results Page.
Getting a page removed from the results page is not possible, unless they are spammers or criminals, but getting their page to list on the second page or third page might be possible if they are overthrown by a vast number of sites ranking higher than they do and users will typically not search further after the first page of search results.
The SEDO Project aims take companies it doesn’t like, who are proven guilty in the form of “Bad Business Practice”, and basically get them off the first few pages of search results: Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask, Ananzi, etc. Maybe these companies will listen and provide customers better service, if not, at least their online sales will plummet when consumers are warned about them.
Anon just created a Facebook group and created the first target if you’re interested in joining the project.
First on the hit list is homemark, is it possible to outrank homemark.co.za?
This is where the idea for SEDO started. Homemark based in Sandton, Johannesburg.
For years, the purveyor of fine filth. Forever making money, stealing money, and generally being an absolute disgrace to companies in general (they could run for the ANC and get in with all their corruption charges)
www.homemark.co.za is currently number 1 on Google. We’re planning to get them off Google and other search engines. How to do that?
Step 1. Create around 100 blogs on blogspot.com. All domains must have the format – homemark-ENTER WORD.blogspot.com
i.e. homemark-sucks.blogspot.com, homemark-ripoff.blogspot.com etc.Every blog MUST link back to every other blog created (This is how Google works, tracks how many links a site has, and gauges their importance. More links, means your site obviously is quite important)
Create a Group on FB for people to link to these sites from outside FB. There should be enough link backs to these sites to force a change in the Google algorythm. I’m pretty sure it should work.
A lot of Homemark’s business comes from their website, so the more we push it down the ranks, the more aware people might become about not buying anything from them.
That’s some basic SEO that seems unnecessary (it might work, but it might backfire as well), it would be much more effective to do some competitor analysis using Yahoo and find all the links pointing back to homemark.co.za and ask these people to either remove the link or change it to point to the homemark-scam article. Second, we need to find all the sites using the keyword homemark (or any of their products, will need a list of their products) and get a backlink from these sites to the homemark-scam article. Setting up a bunch of blogs will influence the page-rank, but why not use sites that already have a high page-rank and let them do all the work?
Well, this experiment is going to be interesting, it seems SEDO requires a lot more SEO knowledge than just doing a normal SEO project …
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Tags: De-optimisation, Engine, Search, SEDO, SEO
Interesting idea.
I have a way of doing this, a bit long do post here in the comment though. You only need one site and a few hours of hard work :)
Can I email you about this later on?
I see they have a pagerank of about 3, I guess the logical way would be to create a site on separate domain containing the word homemark (homemarkza.com or something similar), slap a few articles on it and then boost its pagerank, when it reached a certain pagerank, let’s say 5, use it to boost the other sites up to 3 or higher which means the original site will eventually go under.
Вообще я очень люблю написать какую-нибудь едкую критику, но тут ни к чему не придраться! :)
Предпочли бы, чтобы критика, по крайней мере, тогда я узнать что-нибудь от него. Извините, если мой русский язык немного ржавый ;-)