A lot of companies make profit on the Web and basically, the Internet helps them expand. Of course, the competition doesn't like that and they might appeal to some evil tactics, in order to bring the other firm down. Here are a few methods of sabotage and advice on how to avoid them.

One thing is to limit access to your website. This method is a bit dubious and I don't know how legal it is. The competition would go and spam everywhere on the net... with a link to your site. There is nothing illegal in sending a lot of messages with "Check out the cool pictures on this site" since this unwanted message is non-commercial. But the thing is that this will lead to many sites dubbing your webpage as "spam", fact which will lead to you getting fewer visitors. Now that doesn't sound too good… So, basically, what they do, is get your URL deemed spammy.

The method above is a bit primitive, so here's a more evolved one. The competition will insert your URL in a link farm (another form of spamming). This will lead to the same effect. Now, as I've said before, security isn't something you achieve, it's rather a process. That's why you need to always search the web for your URL and see if it has been spammed. Because if it has been, then it's bad for business. After you see that this has happened, you need to get those spam messages deleted somehow.

The competition will use the Web's strengths against you. They will make you be regarded as spam really fast, if you do not pay attention to your traffic and to where your link appears. When you have a big business that makes a lot of money, you have to be alert on a lot of fronts, because competition will try to take you down in any way they can!

This article was about the simplest ways of web-sabotage, but I'll get back soon with a material on some more evolved methods…