how to avoid being banned/penalised by Google!?!

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• uiredesign

  January 2011

  Yes you have specified the right reasons for which google can penalize /ban your site. There are others also like duplicate content issue, Keyword Stuffing, Link from bad neighborhood and many more.

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• MOGmartin

  January 2011

  "links from bad neighborhoods" is not a reason for an outright ban by itself - otherwise you could have any website on the planet banned by sending some spammy links at it.
  
  What CAN get you banned is a totally un-natural linking profile, but the original poster kind of covered that in his statement about buying links in the first place.
  
  
  In reality, there is a lot that could get you de-indexed from Google, but if you ask yourself one question "does it feel right to do this?" and you can honestly answer that positively, you will be alright.
  
  cheers,
  
  Martin

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• franklin4005

  January 2011

  If you doing perfect SEO you can avoid banned/penalised from google. when we have to try to do the blackhat SEO, that time we will get penalized from Google. better to avoid black hat SEO.

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• ittap

  January 2011

  Another reason to get penalized might be a short term domain registration. This is because there are lots of spam domains that are listed for a short period of time. Google does not trust them.
  And another one would be duplicate content. Google just hates that and as soon as you got caught, your website will loose its rankings.

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• Vaqasuddin

  January 2011

  I think avoid duplicate links, duplicate content and no spamming of keywords.

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• ian82

  January 2011

  Thanks for the replies.
  Someone mentioned "bad neighbourhoods" - so the question is - how do you know if something is a "bad neighbourhood" - you could just be busy posting on forums and unwittingly end up with links from bad neighbourhoods, couldn't you? Does Google give a definition??
  
  Cheers
  
  Ian

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• MOGmartin

  January 2011

  said:

  Thanks for the replies.
  Someone mentioned "bad neighbourhoods" - so the question is - how do you know if something is a "bad neighbourhood" - you could just be busy posting on forums and unwittingly end up with links from bad neighbourhoods, couldn't you? Does Google give a definition??
  
  Cheers
  
  Ian

  
  I'm not aware of any firm definition, but a surefire way to establish is to check if a website ranks for its domain name. For instance, to check this site you would search google for "seoforums.org" (without the quotes).
  
  If you do that, and the domain does NOT appear, it's one of two things - either
  a) its spam, and you shouldnt be interested, or
  b) its so new its not even indexed, so again, you shouldnt be interested.

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• noahqw

  January 2011

  said:

  "links from bad neighborhoods" is not a reason for an outright ban by itself - otherwise you could have any website on the planet banned by sending some spammy links at it.
  
  What CAN get you banned is a totally un-natural linking profile, but the original poster kind of covered that in his statement about buying links in the first place.
  
  
  In reality, there is a lot that could get you de-indexed from Google, but if you ask yourself one question "does it feel right to do this?" and you can honestly answer that positively, you will be alright.
  
  cheers,
  
  Martin

  
  I thought it was alright to buy links from other websites?

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• MOGmartin

  January 2011

  said:

  I thought it was alright to buy links from other websites?

  I guess it depends on your definition of "alright"... ;)
  
  Google:"NO, its NOT alright"
  
  95% of SEO's: "YES, its alright, just dont be a prick about it and buy loads of rubbish"
  
  5% of SEO's: "NO, its not alright, oh, how do you like my new pet unicorn"

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• techwpblog

  January 2011

  thnx MOGmartin. for nice reply...

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• bogs

  January 2011

  to avoid it.. you might want to consider following google webmaster guidelines.. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769
  
  they have some points on what to consider.. dos and donts etc etc..

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• deepa

  January 2011

  Avoid link farming, as excess of everything is bad,always use white hat SEO, your wrong move, can make you out od SERP

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• Viridian Energy

  January 2011

  Thanks for these explanations, great one. Clears up everything.

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• pcvmedia

  January 2011

  interesting thread - question: somebody mentioned short term domain registrations as being negative. does this mean it's always better to register a domain for a longer period of time rather than renewing it a year at a time. i've had a domain for 7 years, always renewing it annually. would it help my google rankings if i were to register it for 5 or even 10 years ahead of time? would this also apply for new domains? so if you're serious about establishing a web presence registering it for a long time straight away rather than just 1 year? thanks.

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• MOGmartin

  January 2011

  said:

  interesting thread - question: somebody mentioned short term domain registrations as being negative. does this mean it's always better to register a domain for a longer period of time rather than renewing it a year at a time. i've had a domain for 7 years, always renewing it annually. would it help my google rankings if i were to register it for 5 or even 10 years ahead of time? would this also apply for new domains? so if you're serious about establishing a web presence registering it for a long time straight away rather than just 1 year? thanks.

  
  I have spoken to google about this in the past, and am assured that the remaining time left on a domain registration plays no part in any ranking algo.
  
  On the other hand, there is some correlative studies that indicate that older domains have some seniority, which led to a big rush to buy up old domains a few years ago (I did as well at the time, so Ive got a few that are 10/12 years old in my godaddy account).
  
  I now beleive that an aged domain does not help in rankings, once its surpassed certain amounts of time with an active website, probably 12 months...

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• MOGmartin

  January 2011

  Actually, you might want to check out today's whiteboard friday, spooky!!
  
  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/age-of-site-and-old-links-whiteboard-friday?utm_source=seoforums.org

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• jhonsean

  January 2011

  Agreed with mogmartin and i find it more interesting. I think yourself can answer this thread because your way of implementing SEO will reflect your site and you will notice the results.

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• markbensonseo

  January 2011

  update website frequently and also update website content.

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