One simple question… Are you asking Google to “Ban” your website?

I am sure probably nobody will like to get banned by Google .., I see new people complaining in search engine optimization forums that their websites have been banned by Google and they “have no idea why this happened?”.

These people claims that they have done nothing wrong and they have no clue as to why their site is no longer listed in Google. The purpose of this article is to tell you one VERY important thing.

What NOT to do when optimizing your website, to make sure you don’t get banned.

Some of onpage optimization factors can cause your website to be banned by Google.

Those things included:

• Hidden Text in your web page

• Image Alt spamming Ex: repeated keywords in alt

• Meta tag stuffing

• Title tag stuffing

these are few of the SEO “don’ts” you should remember.

Offpage optimization factors/techniques that you should never ever do.

Market myths:

• If a “link farm” is linking to your website you’ll get penalized and.or banned from Google – FALSE

• If unrelated websites are linking to you, your website will get penalized – FALSE

• Page Rank 1 websites won’t help you because Google does not display PR1 websites in their backlink list – FALSE

None of the above are true statements for the simple fact that:

Anything a competitor could do to harm your website would NEVER be penalized by Google.
Think about it for a minute. If any of those could actually penalize your website, how many people do you think would simply add their competitor’s websites to link farm websites, unrelated websites, and low PR websites? Unfortunately, it would be quite a few.

The only way you can get penalized by offpage optimization is if YOU link out to “bad neighborhoods”, which would be:

• Link Farms

• Penalized websites (websites that are “gray barred” by Google)

Now, you would think this would be a pretty easy thing to stay away from, right? Wrong! Example: Take this case for example, Let’s say I had a website and exchanged links with your website. At the time that we exchanged links, both of our websites were very quality, related websites, with a Google Page Rank of 5. This would be an ideal link trade.Ok, now several months go by, and in the meantime, I’m doing all kinds of “black-hat SEO” Note: Black Hat SEO is simply doing all of the things that can get you banned by the search engines. After doing all of this Black Hat SEO, Google decides to ban my website, which gives me a “gray barred Page Rank” and I’m no longer in Google’s index of websites. I’m completely gone from Google. So what, right? I mean, you could care less since it’s not your website…

Well, guess what? You’re still linking to my website, which is now considered to be a “bad neighbor” and you could actually get penalized MAJORLY for linking to me, without even doing anything differently to your own website! That’s a scary thought…

Think about that for a moment. You could actually drop tens to hundreds of search positions without even making any changes to your website. Be constructive when you are maintaining a web site.

Hope this information will help you.

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