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Originally posted by onlymovies
Anyone that was listed above him (that was obviously spamming/cheating) he would copy and "take" their pages and put them on his own domain.
He started a collection of these pages, taking tons of these cheating pages and listing them on subdomains of his main one. Some pages were placed in subdomains, while other were just in new folders, etc.
It worked for him. He's now number 1 in his spot and even more so, if you do a search for his name, the whole front page of his search is now his. So now, he thanks the cheaters for making these killer optimized pages that he would "take" from them and add to his domain.
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In general this would even up the odds. Assume you copy and paste someone else's site, word for word. Now you both have identical pages. Since the pages are identical, there's pretty much only two elements left in order to rank one page over another.
1) PageRank
2) Anchor Text
If you have a greater PR and/or targetting the anchor text in your links to the keywords you're going after, then you should come up on top (assuming everything else is identical).
WG