{"id":343,"date":"2015-06-08T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T00:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-06-12T04:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:27:23","slug":"when-a-competitor-stoops-really-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"When a Competitor Stoops Really Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A competitor who shall remain unnamed has stooped really low.<\/p>\n<p>We contracted outside SEO expert Michael Cottam, after observing for over three years a professionally executed and well camouflaged SEO attack on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinstallaware\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 keyword: our brand, our trademark, and our property.<\/p>\n<p>His findings make for a terrifying read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/blog\/spam\/parasitic-seo-installawares-competitor-attacks-using-negative-seo-tricks\/\">https:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/blog\/spam\/parasitic-seo-installawares-competitor-attacks-using-negative-seo-tricks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of us at Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> are flattered that our unnamed competitor had to sink to these lows to challenge our product.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this appears to be a tacit admission that they cannot meet us fair and square in the playground, and have to resort to sleights of hand like this.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Dear Unnamed Competitor, for your high praise.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you, Dear Developers, for making Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> what it is. We couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have done this without you.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, thank you very much for your support.<\/p>\n<p>Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> Software.<\/p>\n<p>PS: If any of you are getting the error &#8220;Your access to this site has been limited&#8221; when you try to visit the blog, please download a PDF prinout of the blog post from <a title=\"Parasitic SEO Attack Against InstallAware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/sempdx.pdf\">www.installaware.com\/sempdx.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A competitor who shall remain unnamed has stooped really low. We contracted outside SEO expert Michael Cottam, after observing for over three years a professionally executed and well camouflaged SEO attack on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinstallaware\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 keyword: our brand, our trademark, and our property. His findings make for a terrifying read: https:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/blog\/spam\/parasitic-seo-installawares-competitor-attacks-using-negative-seo-tricks\/ All of us at InstallAware &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When a Competitor Stoops Really Low&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}