The Google Penguin update has caused a lot of businesses and SEO Pros to have some anxieties. It vhas caused a huge downfall especially to SEO practitioners who have been using black hat SEO in getting businesses at the higher ranks of Google’s search pages. Certainly, after the Google Penguin update, there are new set of guidelines that has to be noted in link building, writing content, using keywords, varying anchor texts, creating social media accounts, etc. Even SEO professionals who have been maintaining a certain level of integrity in their practice needs to be educated about these too.
But if for whatever reason, you wanted to know how it feels like to be penalized by Google, there are four different ways to do it. On the other hand, you can also take note of these tips to know what not to do so as not to get into the pitfalls of Google’s Penguin update.
- Creating links from a bad website – In building links, be unmindful as to whether you are placing them in websites that are banned by Google. Google will also look for websites that have been connected with these banned websites and if you are one of them, soon enough, your website will be banned as well. It also matters where links on your site lead to.
- Include duplicated or spinned content in your website – By copying content from other website and including it in your own, you won’t just get penalized and de-indexed by Google. You’ll also face plagiarism issues. To be de-indexed by Google faster, you can also use the same content with several pages in your website, thereby, making it look more Spam.
- Focus on a single anchor text – You don’t have to bother varying your anchor text. Simply focus on one keyword. Then get as many backlinks from different sources using the same keyword. Also, make all the links lead to the same page in your website like the home page. This way, the links will look very unnatural.
- Overdo your keywords – Engulf your articles with keywords. Place it in the title and all over the article. Aside from making your content seem awkward with those overly repetitive keywords, Google will be quick to understand what you are up to with the article, and get you penalized in a short period of time.
Final Words
By following any combination or better yet all of these tips, your website will definitely be penalized by Google faster than you think. You may find the experience worth bragging about but it will be most helpful if you learn from it and share it to other people to avoid getting penalized by avoiding these moves.
About the Author:
Warren Keith Nietes is a freelance writer and blogger focusing on the latest updates of Google. When he is not writing about Search Engine, he helps Center Networks, which offers different web hosting like fatcow
