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I  hear people asking me, “Jay, why is my site not listed in Google anymore?” or “Why am I ranked 454th in Google for my most popular search term when I’ve been optimizing my site relentlessly?”.   More often than not the reason is because the website in question is suffering a penalty of some sort or has been outright banned!

Search Engines Don’t Like SEO

It’s no secret that search engine managers do not  like people manipulating the results through SEO, but this is exactly what search engine optimizers (SEO’s) do.  So if you make it blatantly obvious that you are performing SEO on your website then the search engines are going to take notice and likely axe your site or at the very least penalize you.  Therefore when performing SEO for your website you must always make sure what you're doing is in moderation, realistic and not illegal. 

If your site gets banned by the search engines then it means you’ve probably done something really  bad to the extent where they don’t want to list your website at all.

So how do you know if your website is banned?

So how can you check whether your website is banned by a search engine?

Check  your  search results

If you enter your domain and you get a message saying “Sorry, no information is available for the URL: xyz” then chances are your site is banned.

The only other time you may receive this message is if your website is brand new and hasn’t been crawled and indexed  by the search engines yet.

 Secondly, check the PageRank Bar

If you download the Google toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com) then you can view the PageRank of every website you visit. If you navigate to your website and you see a gray bar where your PageRank would normally be displayed (as the graph above displays), then this is a very strong indication that your website has been banned.

So what are the tell-tail signs of optimization, and how I avoid them?

When you optimize your website you should always think about how your website will appear from the point of view of the search engines. There are six common pitfalls that people fall into when optimizing their websites, and will usually account for 99% of all problems:

No diversity in Anchor Text

Search Engines like natural linking, that is where a website links to another out of choice, so if a website has 100 inbound links that all have exactly the same anchor text, is that natural? No, quite the opposite, it’s highly unnatural. In order to avoid this pitfall, you should vary your link anchor text for each link partnership you set-up, or each time you submit to a web directory. If you’re smart about your link anchor text then there is no way your linking strategy will look unnatural.  Keep this in mind when submitting your articles and submitting to search engines... vary your anchor text from the main keywork(s) so some of the other top 4 or 5!

Getting backlinks too fast!

 If you operate a new website and you get backlinks too quickly then this is often a clear sign of optimization tactics. Even worse, is the situation where all of these backlinks contain exactly the same anchor text (as previously mentioned). If you operate a new website you should build links slowly.  Don't be tempted to buy 5000 links for $14.95 as these are likely to raise red flags and they links themselves are likely all poor quality!  You will learn now that 20 PR3-6 links are worth more than 5-10,000 crappy links with no page rank whatsoever - so remember this... If you want good links, consider link swapping or joining a reputable linking service like "Acually Rank"  where you pay a fixed monthly fee in order to link to Quality!    Please if you do nothing else, buy Submiteaze and get a good subscription to a quality linking service - do not buy shitty back links in quantity!!!   As I’ve mentioned already, the search engines like to see natural linking, if your website is only a week old and already has 2000  backlinks, is that natural?  Link building should be a gradual process, and you should resist the urge to try to get thousands of links as soon as you launch your site.  Although your intentions may be well intended, you may actually be doing more harm than good.

Keyword Stuffing

Another important step to prevent  your website from being penalized is to ensure you don’t over-optimize your website. That is to say don’t ‘keyword stuff’. Keyword stuffing is a form of spamming where you use your keyword or keyphrase over-and-over again in your web page in order to increase the keyword’s weighting in the body text.   Worse, your paragraphys won't sound natural anylonger and your readers won't appreciate it either!  The search engines can spot deliberate spamming quite easily, and as a result, should be avoided. Expects state you should keep you keywords shouldn't make up more than a maximum 5% of your post or page!  A good product like SEO Pressor can keep track of this for you or simply do it on your own by dividing your keywords mention total by your wordpress word count!  Simple and it will keep you from being penalized!

Usually if you write a well written, informative web page then there is no need to ‘optimize’ a web page, as you will have naturally mentioned your keyword/phrase in the text. The only thing you should consider optimizing is the Title tag, this should always contain your primary keyword or phrase.

Title Tag, Meta Tag , Image Alt Tag Spamming

In addition to over-optimization of your body text, you can also be penalized for spamming your tag attributes. For example if you create a title tag that looks like

<title>Pet, pets, pet,pet collars, pets, pets,pets, pet shampoos, pets, pet likes, pet odors, pets, and so on</title>

Then the search engines are likely to take a dislike to this and may penalize your website.

Duplicating Content

Search engines like unique content; they don’t like seeing the same information being duplicated across multiple domains.  There have been instances where websites have been dropped from the search engines for doing exactly this. If you must insist on duplicating content from other web pages then you should disallow access to it using your robots.txt file to avoid any potential problems. To accomplish this, have your webmaster create a file in the root of your website so that it can be accessed  by going to http://www.mydomain.com/robots.txt

In the robots.txt file one can disallow access to particular files on your website

Eg.)Disallow: myduplicatedpage.html

Or you may also specify directories:

Eg.)Disallow: /mycontent/

 

Hidden Text

Hidden text is when you create text on your web page that is the same colour as the background colour, so it is in effect hidden. This allows you to place your target keywords and phrases on your web page without the viewer of the website page aware that the text is even there.

Excessive File Structure Change

By drastically changing the file structure or filenames of your website, you run the risk of damaing your SEO rankings. Although there's no obvious reason why search engines would penalize you for this.  Nevertheless, I know there have seen occassions where websites have changed their file structure and filenames and have seen their search engine rankings take a big hit because of it. An effective alternate solution to this would be to redirect your old pages to your new pages.   In while, the search engines will update their listings and you will not suffer any adverse affects.

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   Submiteaze  Article submissions  can be a very useful tool for increasing the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your website. The automation of article submission can greatly increase the number of articles—and therefore back links—that you can post in a short amount of time (even doing 10-15 daily).  Before buying any type of software program, however, it's important to take a look at the various features that are standard and decide on which are important to you. Once you know what you're looking for, the search for software will be much easier. Because most article directories do not allow articles that are copies of previously-submitted materials, it's important that yours are unique or spun. Going through every article by hand, to spin it, can be not only very time consuming, and frustrating. Instead of spending hours making slight changes to your content to ensure that it gets past the duplicate content filters, you can buy software that will do this for you (eg. the best spinner).  Some programs will replace words with synonyms, some will re-arrange sentences, and some will do both. To give yourself the best opportunity at getting your articles published, you should make sure that your software takes as many steps as possible to ensure the uniqueness of your article. 

There are thousands of web directories that publish articles; manually submitting articles to all of these databases is next to impossible. Finding article submission software that submits to as many of these publishers is essential (that's where Subnmiteaze comes into play as you have over 1,500 article directories to choose from!), as the more places you can post articles, the more back links you can develop.   To maximize your SEO, make sure that your software submits to as many databases as possible. If your articles are only sent to one or two hundred sites, you're limiting your optimization capabilities - something you never have to worry with Submiteaze as they constantly add to thier article directory almost weekly and you have over 1,500 to start work with right away.

One of the most significant features that article submission software possesses is its ability to customize your program. Because everyone's needs change over time, it only makes sense that you be able to change your software to match your current situation. Being able to pick and choose the directories that you send your articles to can be important in increasing the probability that your article is accepted. If you submit articles to publishers that only accept articles on a specific topic, you won't benefit unless your articles are about that topic.  Some article submission programs will do this automatically (program your category listing with Submiteaze); they keep track of the types of articles that databases accept, and will only send your articles to those directories if the topics match. This, again, makes it more likely that your articles will be posted and back links established.

Don't be fooled by how similar these programs look at first glance—there are many differences that can change how you use the article submission software.  Of most importance - does the program offer built-in tutorials??  If you have to always go off site to another web site, this can be a true pain.   With Submiteaze,  Video tutorials are built right into the software for true hand held guidance!   Hence,  be sure to look very closely at what each software includes and compare its features to what you're looking for.  Buying this type of software can be quite expensive, but not with Submiteaze which in my professional opinion is underpriced!  In other words, you are getting a comprehensive submission program which for the money - is true value!  And free updates for life!  Click here to learn more

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