Google says it has updated its algorithm so that making your customers hate you so they complain about you on other sites and boost your SEO no longer works. The move to soak up the “black Google juice” comes after a big NYT profile/investigation of the owner of an online store that was stoking customers to hate him because the inbound links from their complaints on other sites boosted his rankings in Google Search Results. [More]
Google Fixes Algorithm So Harassing Your Customers Doesn't Boost Your Page Rank
By December 2, 2010
Harassing Customers As A Business Model
By November 29, 2010
One site has figured out a way to turn antagonizing customers into a profitable business model. [More]

