So Google ate me for breakfast...

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I'm relatively new to IM. I'd say I've been using the proper CPA networks for a couple of months.

I recently managed to get a fake blog to rank third for 'google money system', and was beginning to think that I was the Mac Dad of SEO, until last Wednesday Google pulled the rug out from under me and de-indexed my site. FAIL.

My tactic ( if you can call it that ) was pretty primitive. 1) Set up Wordpress lander, and 2) blog comment like theres no tomorrow.

I was making some good profit for about a week. I didn't go out and pre-order my Porsche or anything, but it was good for my first go.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure it was my unatural link building that popped me up on the Google Gay-dar, but I'm not sure if it was a combination of other factors such as having google in the domain, having a fake blog etc.

Basically, I'm going to have another crack and don't want to get squished again, so I'm wondering if anything I've done sounds obviously stupid.

I suppose with hindsight my link-building looked pretty unnatural:

  • I got 200+ blog comment links in 2 weeks, some to my homepage but 80% to my lander.
  • The anchor text invariably contained my keyphrase with little variation
  • and after I got all these links and ranked, I stopped building.
Has anyone got any tips/resources on 'natural' link building, such as how many a day is safe etc. The Matt Cutts self-righteous bs about writing quality content doesn't really apply.

PS, I already dickrolled myself in advance, so thats catered for ;)
 


Ironically, you can't actually join the Salvation Army. You have to be born into it. Weird religion.

As for your link building problem, try something that'll automate the process, but ads some variety to the anchor text. There have been a few links to people's blog posts with tutorials on making something that'll do it... And the newer versions of some of the automated tools probably do it (dunno off the top of my head though)
 
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Your site could be back still - get a package of social bookmarking or article submission to get a batch of different fresh inbounds, and see what happens.

The main automated tool I've heard about is Xrumer
 
I tried registering a domain with google in the name once and namecheap wouldn't let me do it, and not because it was taken. Legality issues maybe?
 
The man is asking if it's his unnatural link building which flagged him and people reply with advice to use automated link building tools...

In my personal opinion 200 is enough to draw up a flag, a brand new website recieving 200 links in 2 weeks in definitely not normal. Look at the #1 for 'acai berry', that site has been out like 7 months and he only has ~800 links.

Obviously there are exceptions like when a site such as Twitter is opened but that would pass a manual review because the links would be quite clearly natural, not all blog comments.

HarveyJ said:
Ironically, you can't actually join the Salvation Army. You have to be born into it. Weird religion.
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No you don't...
 
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I tried registering a domain with google in the name once and namecheap wouldn't let me do it, and not because it was taken. Legality issues maybe?
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Of course there are legal issues but there are legal issues with registering any domain name associated with someone elses copyright. I'd be incredibly surprised if NameCheap wouldn't let you do it though.
 
Well, I have seen case that has caused a problem when building 200-500 links in less then two weeks. There has to be something else here.

And Xumer is probably the worse thing you could do if indeed you are having problems with Blog commenting.

I agree with Zany. Try and see if building another set of links gets you back up there.

have you checked to see if your site is indexed?
 
Yes Dimaseo,

Last time I checked there was no trace. I've got webmaster tools set up, and in the control panel it says my pages are indexed, which isn't true when checked with a site: search.

Of course there are legal issues but there are legal issues with registering any domain name associated with someone elses copyright. I'd be incredibly surprised if NameCheap wouldn't let you do it though.
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and yes Namecheap don't have any beef with google domains if you do it manually. They even retrospectively added a coupon code onto my domain and refunded me $0.88 lol.

I'll try a bunch more links perhaps. It just seems hard to draw a conclusion on my ban, when I look at all the other sites in the top 10 and their link profiles look as spammy as can be. Some are blatantly just autopligging the hell out of their sites by the looks of it.

Your site could be back still - get a package of social bookmarking or article submission to get a batch of different fresh inbounds, and see what happens.
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Any recommendations? I've spent so many hours posting blog comments I might get someone else to do it for this one. Obviously not your usual '10,000-Indian-directory-sites-all-owned-by-one-guy' shit.
 
Manual reviews happen on competitive niches, flogs are a becoming frowned upon in ppc so that might extend to natural rankings too. Never heard of it but it's definitely possible.

Throwing some extra links at the site might help this one, but to benefit you long term you should split the SEO stuff you did and test with some random niches.

flog + new domain + 50 links in 2 weeks
flog + new domain + 200 links using different link building methods
flog + aged domain + 200 links in 2 weeks
good content + new domain + 50 links in 2 weeks
............

I know it's a lot of work but do you really want to spend the rest of your career guessing?
 
Thanks erect, good comments. And yeah, I suppose a flog isn't exactly going to score me brownie points on a manual review.

So which one of you fuckers filed a spam report then? ;)
 
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