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Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:29 PM PDT

Guest Post - Today's host is Brian Nixon, who looks at the darker side of SEO.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Kill your competition with negative SEO, Destroy Your Competitor, adverts selling negative SEO seems to have sprung up all over the web. So far the webmasters largely believed that while spammy backlinks wouldn't pass on any benefit to a website, they couldn't hurt the site either. Google Penguin, however, has changed things and it's time to look out or talk with your SEO company about this.

But recently on the Webmaster forum itself, Google acknowledges that a third party could affect your site's ranking.