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"Forums have been buzzing and buzzing about the possibility of a competitor being able to hurt your Google ranking for the past few years now.  We have covered this topic time and time again, just see  here for some of the many times we covered it.  In fact, we even covered a thread that listed how to penalize your competitors in Google.I thought it would be fun to see if you guys believe it.  Do you think it is possible for someone to hurt a competitors by using links as ammunition.   I am not talking about hacking into someone's site.  I am talking about just using external links, that a webmaster cannot control, as a method of hurting one's Google rankings.  Here is  the poll:There is discussion on this topic at WebmasterWorld now.  Most feel that, yes, you can hurt someone's ranking in Google with external links.Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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