Don't get Banned by Google - by accident

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

 Part 3  - I would like to start today by pointing out Part 1 and Part 2 pertains to on-page optimization and Part 3 will be talking about off-page optimization.

Part 1 and Part 2 we went over on-page optimization and talked about.

• Hidden Text
• Alt Image Spamming
• Meta Tag Stuffing
• Title Tag Stuffing

Today we will talk about off-page optimization... and we should first dispell some popular myths.

• If a "link farm" is to to your website you will 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 the 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.

Let's think about this for a minute... If any of the above could actually penalize your website, the how many webmasters would simply add their competitors websites from a link farm website, unrelated websites and low PR websites just to hurt your ranking... it would be quite a few I'm sure.

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

In our next post we will continue with off-page optimization... Please BookMark our site.

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