The other day I wrote an article on how you can be banned or penalized in Google. This article I will be covering additional ways that can get you banned or penalized and things that you can do to avoid this.
Could Google be ignoring links with keywords? I think it could be. It’s certainly a way for it to get out a monster it (and other search engines) have created.
It is no secret that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most powerful, cost-effective, and results-yielding website promotion tool, but if your optimization service provider or the webmaster is cutting off the online campaign at SEO set-up only, then it is not meeting the campaign objective fully. SEO has to be followed with well planned on-going maintenance and off-page optimization strategies to continue to improve and/ or retain the top rankings. You could agree with the fact that competition webpages for your every target keyword/ key-phrase has increased multiple folds now. A well planned on-going SEO maintenance and off-page strategies will guarantee that you continue to reap the benefits of top rankings and thus get guaranteed qualified traffic and leads for a long time.
Below is a list of the “submit your site” urls for Blog and RSS directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to.
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is the new search engine algorithm currently being used by Google. LSI attempts to take a more holistic approach to website searches by employing advanced artificial intelligence to the search engine algorithm in order to mimic the way a human would search. What this means is that search engine results are based upon relevancy not upon the site having the right keywords or the most links. Sites with quality content, which is most relevant to the search terms, will end up on top of the rankings while sites with poor, nonsensical, or irrelevant content will not do so well.
Are you looking for free directories to submit to? There are literally thousands of web directories available today. Almost every day a new web directory is being created and it is difficult to judge the quality and relevance of these websites. But you never know which website will be ranked high by the search engines when the next round of indexing happens.
The Google 950 penalty is a scenario when a website suddenly slips down the Google rankings to bottom ranking, a shift of around 950 places. For example if a site was previously ranking number 1 for a particular keyword but is now the last result on page 10 off Google search results, this would mean that the site has now shown a drop of 950 places hence the term 950 penalty.
Know your terms in SEO. While some may argue that familiarity the gist of the SEO industry will suffice, it still cannot be denied that knowing what words pertain to which is equally important. In order to be truly an expert in SEO, you have to know how to work the jargon.
Anybody who monitors their rankings with the same vigor that we in the SEO community do will have noticed some fairly dramatic shifts in the algorithm starting last Thursday (July 5th) and continuing through the weekend. Many sites are rocketing into the top 10 which, of course, means that many sites are being dropped at the same time. We were fortunate not to have any clients on the losing end of that equation however we have called and emailed the clients who saw sudden jumps into the top positions to warn them that further adjustments are coming. After a weekend of analysis there are some curiosities in the results that simply require further tweaks in the ranking system.
Google’s Universal Search - The Death of Article Marketing
I just read an article from SitePro News called “Search Engine Optimization For Universal Search - Back to Square One?” and have some comments to make.
