Comments on: Google Tricks For SEOs to Avoid at All Costs

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:48:01 +0000

Satish, no, no they haven’t stopped. They just got smarter about it. The people who didn’t know what they were doing and were just following what they thought everyone else was doing stopped, sure, but the people who actually know how to do these kinds of unethical techniques are going at it harder than ever.

By: Satish

Satish — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:04:51 +0000

Good one! I guess people has stopped keyword spamming and keyword stuffing into their articles. After too much of hype, bloggers, webmasters and writers are finally putting up quality content on their sites. :D

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:47:15 +0000

I suspect a lot of Google’s recognition of paid links is through known sources. There were plenty of websites and businesses running large paid link operations. These are largely dead now due after the penguin update in April ’12, and they were reasonably easy to find.

By: Matt Brading

Matt Brading — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:44:46 +0000

All common sense really, though I might have tried a couple of these in a past life … the one that really annoys me is link building and the assumption it’s only ever done for Google’s benefit. Kind of arrogant on Google’s part if you ask me.

I build links to every piece of new content we publish, because they generate (targeted) traffic. That’s how the web was built … people linked to stuff they liked, people swapped links with other people for a whole host of reasons, and there was no need to stop and make sure the two pages were about the exact same content.

Heck, half the fun of the web was never knowing where you might end up. Google can be as focused on precision as it likes, but it shouldn’t try to force it’s vision for the internet on everyone else.

I don’t care if Google values the links I make or not… they do the job I want them to… but when it penalises me for any it doesn’t like, isn’t that getting into censorship territory? ‘Grow the web our way or else we’ll punish you!”

I’m all for keeping spam out of the search results, but I think Penguin wasn’t as well thought out as it might have been…

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:52:00 +0000

How exactly Google finds out if a link is genuine or a paid one?

Suppose I write an article about cloud. I can put several link as reference including to many companies. Now, one of these links is a paid one. How does Google recognizes this one?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:17:24 +0000

My problem with these latest algo changes that target linkbuilding is that if one of your competitors decides to do some dirty tricks on your site, all he has to do is to build some nasty links pointing to your site. And that’s it, the damage is done.

I know there is the disavow tool, but by the time you realize what’s going on, the whole thing might have impacted your site.

By: galfromdownunder

galfromdownunder — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:52:57 +0000

Or put another way, just write stuff people will want to read, OK? For example, posts like this! Thanks for maintaining the rage.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:53:40 +0000

I was once explaining SEO blunders to my team. Two of my major points were: 1) You are NOT smarter than Google. 2) BE the most relevant result.

You’ve hit a few other nice key points, in addition to those.