Getting Banned by Google - by accident

This is a simple question... Are you asking Google to penalize your website?

 Part 4  - Yesterday I talked about off-page optimization and some myths that should be cleared up by now so let' continue.

RECAP: The only way you can get penalized by off-page optimization is if YOU link out to "bad neighborhoods", which would be:

• Link Farms
• Penalized websites (websites that are "grey barred" by Google but use to have a PR

Now you would think this would be a pretty easy thing to stay away from, right? WRONG!

EXAMPLE:

Lets use this as an example, Let's say I have a website and exchanged links with your website... At the time of the exchange we both had a PR 5 and quality related which would be the idea trade.

OK, now several month 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 search engines as I mentioned in previous post.

After doing all kinds of Black Hat SEO, Google decides to ban my website, which gives me a "gray barred" Page Rank as in the below image and my website is no longer in Google's index.

This is a very big problem because Google will penalize your website ranking because they see this as linking to a "bad neighborhood" and your website could drop hundreds of search positions without you even knowing what you've done wrong.

There is good new. You can use SEO Elite to track all your link partners websites to see if Google has banned any of their websites. This will allow you to REMOVE and and all websites that have been banned from Search Engines before you get penalized for someone else's wrong doings. Download your FREE Trial Version of SEO Elite.

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