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As a webmaster we spent enormous time in building the reputation and SEO for our blog.
Right from day one we do all the good work starting from Submitting our site to web directories, to Publish feeds to feed directory, Write articles for self promotion and even blog commenting. After spending huge time on the blog Sometimes their website doesn’t even rank for their own web site’s name.
Read below to know What Have you done wrong?
Posting Duplicate content /Duplicate site.
If Google find multiple pages with same content then he may penalize both sites for this. Of course some one may have copied your content but this will effect your blog.
Make sure you do a regular check by searching on COPYSCAPE.
Don’t use Easy Traffic Tricks.
If you are using some spam scripts or any free traffic exchange method then be ready to get banned.These sites may pretend that they keep your information safe but actually they don’t and can sooner or later get you banned from search engines. Never go for Easy. Take a better way out.
Keyword spamming or keyword stuffing.
We provide best car insurance for your new car. If you need car insurance, we can help you in finding best car insurance scheme because we are best car insurance company
This is called keyword stuffing.
If the keyword is used too often then Google can place a filter to reduce your site ranking or may ban you if the problem is severe. Best way is to rotate your keywords or read this post on detailed usage of keywords in a post:
Robots or meta tags
Make sure that robots.txt must exist in your site and is dofollow for all search engines.Until and unless you want to keep it secret.
Wrong content in your robots.txt may prevent Search engine crawlers to stop crawling your website.
Backlinks but no badlinks.
If you try to link suspicious sites which has already been penalized. Like sites which is used by spammers to install unwanted malware and and spyware to user computers .
backlinks to avoid-
- Link-Farms
- Adult sites
- Gambling sites
Buying links
Buying links may not ban you but can effect your page rank. Google is getting smart and has been catching such methods which puts your website on to top in few weeks.May sites that has sell links has been devalued by Google making it waste of time and money.
These are few tips which I can suggest for you to stop your website from getting banned in search engines. I will love to know more points from you.
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Pretty nice article Ishan. The one point that is the most important is Duplicate Content. Duplicate Content can surely get one in trouble from Google
@Shiva I totally agree with you duplicate content is the biggest threat
@aatif and Duia
Keyword spamming is another you may have seen if you try to search for something like “CCNA study material download “you may find number of sites with all the necessary keywords and adsense placed around the text nothing else..
My own personal experience
nice article . i agree with duplicate content but keyword stuffing is really new to me . thanks
Keyword spamming, this is really a serious problem. In my eyes, the original and natural content is the most attractive and obviously, Google’s spiders also like this kind of content.
Awsome article Ishan….
I am glad that you all liked this post.
Thanks for commenting on this article
a.www.sum pic! The article’s great too! Kinda commonsensical, but really helpful for new bloggers, who might sometimes fall for link-sellers/dealers. Though it doesn’t exactly get you banned, erratic frequency of posting too doesn’t help much in search engine rankings.
SEO is a very tricky thing and it sucks when your site gets banned in search results.
I don’t fully agree with your 1st point i.e. duplicate content. It’s a threat but not the biggest threat (as you say) to your blog. I think Google definitely has some mechanism or some smart logic for duplicate content, based on which it will show the search results. Type the keyword “right time to apply for adsense account”. Perhaps you will find 2 websites with duplicate content in the top 6. The original content at ezinearticles is at #1. It has not been ‘penalized’. Here, it seems Google has given priority to PR.
Search engines are getting smarter day by day ,With continuous improving algorithms…we can not expect anything to be permanent..
And regarding your example……
I search for keyword “right time to apply for adsense account” and what i found is that it has something to do with the date of publishing article..
For instance If u write an article now and somebody copy ur article say after 10 days…..then ur article was already in google database so the copied content blog will be panalised..
This is according to my observation and would like to hear your thought on this.
image is hilarious
regarding keyword stuffing: playing with keywords on ur site while writing posts is mandatory.
just make sure u dont use excessive keywords as u have given the example of carInsurance.
If carInsurance keywrd be used once or twice, it wud be a benefit to u instead of ban from ggl
ATUL
Duplicate content is a major threat. I am the practical example, 2yrs ago when I used blogspot I had copied content from popular tech blogs. Soon I had received a mail from them to remove the content. At that time I don’t know about these points. Good post Ishan.
Very nice tips. Every blogger should follow these rules
Just know if that kind of paragraph is keyword stuffing. I think I am guilty for it.
duplicate content is the biggest threat
The duplicate content penalty only applies to duplicate content within a site. For example if more that one page on a website has exactly the same content. The penalty does NOT apply if there are many sites on different domain names with the same content.
Am i right ya wrong please tell me friends………?
Ideally we should expect Google to filter out duplicate content even on different domains, but I can usually find content scraper sites ranking quite high too