I get asked constantly “will this get me banned”? Well I’ve put up about 10 million pages over the course of my “web life” and I do pay attention to things like that. In my experience and anyone else that has written about it – you get banned for three things.
Why do you get banned?
1.) If you are using markoved content (garbage content really) it’s very easy for a human reviewer to spot… and of course googlebot isn’t as smart as you think – but it can probably detect markov content. Use PLR, articles, whatever you can – but use “real” content that’s readable.
2.) Bookmarking the hell out of everything. If your brand new site suddenly appears in 300 bookmark sites. Big red flag. Take your time kids.
3.) To many links to fast to a newer site. This can include excessive “pinging” with your blogs by the way.
Why you don’t get banned?
1.) Posting at the same time everyday.
2) Duplicate content.
3.) Ip ranges.
Let’s talk about a few “black hat” techniques that I’ve had running for a LONG time now – with zero issues.
My autoblogs dump out an insane amount of posts everyday – no problems. Of course this all happens at the same time because I’m running on a cron job. Googlebot would literally have to sit on my site every single day to know that all my posts happen at the same time. Think about the resources it would use constantly recrawling my site. My site would crash before the googlebot — but if the googlebot was doing this to every thing some fabled algorythim considered an autoblog it wouldn’t have the resources either. If your autoblogs are all “item” based rss feeds – well it might get flagged at a human review. Up the ante man – use full length content.
Another thing I’ve read is that Google doesn’t like a lot of pages created fast. Well other than the occasional sandbox I’ve never had a problem creating lot’s of pages or even having sites that create a lot of pages everyday (even with duplicate content) – think about article directories for a minute, or digg, – almost all of it is duplicant content.
The big one that I suppose can get you banned (except for our smart readers who should know better by now) is that the neighborhoods your links are coming from matter. If you have all porn hub links you sure aren’t going to get any trust or rankings. Hopefully you mix in “Good” links with your crappy ones. I suppose this could get you banned – but I never do it so I don’t know.
Small sites aren’t an issue either – I’ve got 5 year old single page blogger blogs out there still – that still rank. I’ve never added anything to them since the initial post.
The bots not omnicient
The google bot isn’t some “god” of the internet – it’s not capable of being any smarter than your average stupid person – (no AI yet). Since the average person reads on a 7th grade level – I would say that your average stupid person really can’t “read”. They may dump all this info in their head – but they don’t understand it.
The google bot doesn’t either. It can notice patterns. It’s main function though as a spider is to crawl links (really that’s what a spider does). If suddenly your brand new site on how to lose weight eating corn chips gets 4000000 links in 5 hours it’s going to be flaged for review, banned, or sandboxed. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
Your first few weeks/months of any sites life (that you want to keep) means slow and steady. Not fast and furious on the link building.
How to protect yourself:
Take it slow with link building on any new site. Sure, any decent programmer would be able to really kick some tail on fast links – but since it’s not really what you want or need to stay in the index and be ranked. Use your head and realize that there isn’t some “bot” just dedicated to your websites. You can cover your tracks by thinking about footprints (human review protection), and in general be just fine as long as you aren’t just throwing up nonesense content that’s not readable by a human.
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