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> <channel><title>Work From Home Business Blog &#187; Nicolas Prudhon</title> <atom:link href="http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/author/nicolas-prudhon/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.peterleehc.com/blog</link> <description>Home Internet Businessa, Work at Home Ideas and How To Make Money Blogging</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:52:26 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator> <item><title>How To Handle Negative Content In The Search Engines</title><link>http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/work-from-home/how-to-handle-negative-content-in-the-search-engines</link> <comments>http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/work-from-home/how-to-handle-negative-content-in-the-search-engines#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:27:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicolas Prudhon</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Link Management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seo-tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Work From Home]]></category> <guid
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The navigation should be very smooth and ideally <strong>anyone should be able to  access any page of your site within 2 clicks of the mouse only</strong>.</p><p>Once your website is ready to be crawled by the search  engine spiders, it’s now time to create inbound links (or ways for the spiders  and bots) to find out about your site.</p><p>Search engines’ bots love to find new webpages on  internet but hate to be told where they should go. Therefore try to avoid  submitting your site for indexing as it’s a waste of time and could take you  anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of month before you actually get  indexed.</p><p><strong>Instead focus on building multiple inbound links towards  your site.</strong></p><p>At this point, it’s important to state that inbound links  that are create with the purpose of getting crawled by the search engines are  of different nature than the one you potentially may use or be seeking to  increase your PageRank score.</p><p>While in essence of the perfect link they would all be  the same, reality is different and in our situation we are looking for some  inbound links with specific characteristics:</p><ul><li><strong>Your backlink shouldn’t have any “<em>nofollow</em>”  attribute</strong> or anything alike that would prevent your link to be visited by the  search engines.</li><li><strong>Your backlink should be on a page that is cached  daily</strong> preferably.</li></ul><p>The first point is obvious if the search engines can’t  follow your link, your page or site can’t be crawled. As for the second point,  the reason why you are seeking a page that is cached daily is simply because  this means that the search engines like this page and know that it’s providing  fresh quality content regularly.</p><p> As the page gets cached each and every day, all the new  links on it get captured in the process to, and this is what you are looking  for.</p><p>Having hundreds of backlinks to your site but having none  of them on pages freshly cached is useless for your crawling rate (and linking  strategy in general).</p><h2>My site has been crawled and indexed what’s next?</h2><p>Ideally, you’d be keeping up the good work and make sure  that you are getting more and more of those good backlinks.</p><p>Noticed that I didn’t made mention of PageRank for those  pages. When it comes to crawling this is not important, the caching rate of the  page however is.</p><p><strong>Having a backlink from a PR5 page that hasn’t been cached  in over 2 weeks time is like not having backlink at all.</strong></p><p>This apply to your global linking strategy, a backlink is  only effective once it has been crawled.</p><p>So, beyond building more and more backlinks, you should  also optimize your site structure even more.</p><p>Not only based on your topics and categories but also at  the on page level. That’s right, you want your pages to be properly structured.</p><p><strong>This will make your content friendlier to your visitors  but also the search engines. </strong></p><p>For instance, Google is now implementing <em>Section  Site links</em> to provide quick shortcuts to specific sections and paragraphs of  your content based on the structure you created.</p><p>There’s no need to say that without a proper structure,  you’ll never get a chance to benefit from those <em>Section Links</em>…</p><p>Once you manage to have your site crawled and cached  frequently, you’ll enjoy great reward for each of your new added content.</p><p>For example, my site is crawled 50-70 times daily in  average by Google and cached daily or at least as soon as I publish fresh  content. For me this translate in having any new post I publish on my blog to  be indexed within minutes and reach the primary index in a few days only. 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Of course, since all labors require  compensation, <strong>you’ll be rewarded for your generosity with a one way backlink</strong> towards  your site, as well as a short biography of yourself. <strong>Here are the traditional steps taken:</strong></p><ol><li>Write an article.</li><li>Submit it to an Article Directory.</li><li>Wait for your article to be reviewed and  approved.</li><li>Once your article is approved, it will be made  available to visitors of the Article Directory.</li><li>People download your article.</li><li>People publish your article on their site.</li><li>You get visitors and backlinks from all the  sites that re-published your article.</li></ol><p>Your personal involvement pretty much stops at step #2,  after that you can just sit back and relax, everything else is automated and  doesn’t require your participation.  Depending of the article directory you submit your piece  to, <strong>it can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few months to get your article  reviewed and approved</strong>.  Also, keep in mind that all articles submitted are not  automatically approved, so take the time to write properly.</p><h2>Why You Should Love Article Marketing?</h2><p>When it comes to SEO, article marketing offers an  incredible feature, and that’s to build a <strong>potentially unlimited and constant  flow of one way backlinks</strong> towards your site.  The <strong>leverage on article marketing is huge</strong> as one person  only needs to write an article once, submit it to a specialized directory where  more and more people will then re-publish it giving you more and more one way  backlinks without you having anything to do for it.  Each of the articles have submitted in the past is being  reused 300 times in average at least. That means for each article I wrote, I  got over 300 one way backlinks.  Another interesting aspect of those links from a SEO  stand is the fact that they come from diverse domains, which is a great thing,  and that they don’t appear all at once, but rather over time as all the people  don’t publish your article at the same time. <strong>It’s a onetime effort, and a lifetime one way link  building machine.</strong></p><h2>Why You Should Hate Article Marketing?</h2><p><strong>There’s a sound difference between theory and reality.</strong> Most of the articles in those article directories are of  very low quality and some really limit spam junk. This having for resulting  effect that you are very unlikely to ever get your article noticed further than  the article directory itself.  If spending so much effort for that, <strong>you are better of  publishing on your own site instead</strong>.  Even if your article get picked up, more often than not,  it will be by automated scrapping software, and <strong>your article will be published  on a rubbish site</strong> where no one will see it.  Not only no one will see your article and you won’t get  traffic from it, the pages where your article will be published are most likely  to be in the supplementary index, if indexed at all.  In SEO term, this means that <strong>the backlinks you get from  there are worthless</strong>.  At worst, you’ll get dishonest publisher who won’t give  you credit at all, and steal your work to make it theirs. <strong>Article marketing ends up being a huge waste of your  time, resources and talent</strong>. If you want quality backlinks, there are many other  ways to do so.</p><h2>In Conclusion</h2><p>The truth is that no one side is more right than the  other. I personally like article marketing as it helps in many other ways  beyond SEO, such as branding to me.  I’ve got thousands of visitors coming from those  republished articles to my site, and in some instances was even lucky enough to  get my articles in pages on the primary index and get people commenting on  them, building valuable SEO backlinks and reputation for myself.  On the other hand, I’ve also experienced people trying to  steal my content, and honestly, majority of the backlinks I’ve got don’t bring  any or much link juice.  If you really plan to get a high PageRank, I don’t feel  that article marketing is the way to go for you. On the other hand, if you plan  to increase your exposure, or do increased of deep linking on your site, I  would strongly recommend you to include Article Marketing as part of your SEO  campaign.</p><p> <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-0708702640932861";
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/?p=3117</guid> <description><![CDATA[We are now all aware that Google recently updated its algorithms to the benefits of some and the downfall of others. If there was one simple way of summarizing the major changes made by Google it would be to say that Google is looking for results as “natural” as possible. Perfect is not Natural Imperfection [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-0708702640932861";
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Clearly doing great  SEO work be it on site or off site certainly helps a lot; yet doing too much of  it can hurt you too!</p><p>I don’t think I need to elaborate much on <strong>on-site over-optimization</strong>, most of you probably have heard about that recently.</p><p>You know, when you place too many keywords too well  located in a too consistent manner on your page, it triggers a signal to Google  that you are doing something with the intention of influencing the search  engine ranking.</p><p>Google doesn’t like that at all, and before you know it,  you could be relinquished to the rank of a spammer… not so good.</p><p><strong>This is why your on-site optimization should have some  flaws, not major ones of course, but your optimization shouldn’t be “perfect”. </strong></p><p>One major trigger is often the abuse of keyword in ALL the “alt” text of your  pictures. Sometimes having a link to the home page labeled “<em>Home</em>”  may just work better for you than a nicely optimized “<em>Make Money Online</em>” in  this regard.</p><h2>Off Site Over Optimization</h2><p>If most of you are aware of on-site over-optimization, I’m  pretty sure however that you hardly ever think of off-site over-optimization.</p><p>We all know (though I hope you do by now) that off-site  optimization is probably the most important factor in calculating your ranking  position in the search engines.</p><p><strong>It’s all about inbound links and their anchor text.</strong></p><p>Getting a lot of inbound links is great and getting them  with powerful anchor text is even better, but like for on-site optimization,  too many good things become a bad thing because it’s not “natural”.</p><h3>Unnatural Link Growth</h3><p>Google is very wary about abnormal link growth. Sure  enough, your exponential link growth could be due to your excellent marketing  skill or use of a viral marketing tool and in such case you shouldn’t worry too  much thanks to the new upcoming link velocity algorithm.</p><p><strong>On the other hand, if your work has been “enhanced” by  joining one of those programs that will get you 10,000 links instantly, or even  simply 100 (depending of your usual link growth rate), you’ll trigger a red  flag signal to Google.</strong></p><p>I know, if you are really conscious about your site and  your SEO this is relatively unlikely to happen but nonetheless I have to mention  it to you.</p><p>However, what comes next is an entire different story…</p><h3>Anchor Text Abuse</h3><p>Ah… the so ever famous anchor text… people use it and  abuse it over and over.</p><p>Depending on what anchor text is used, we know that a  site can rank very differently for given keywords. This is why it’s very  important to choose your anchor text very carefully.</p><p>So, what is a “natural” anchor text?</p><p><strong>A “natural” anchor text would be anything that people  would normally use to refer to you or your site</strong>. The most common choices are  your brand name (if you have one), your name, or your website name.</p><p>Now you have to agree with me that someone you don’t know  is very unlikely to link to you referring your site by writing something like:</p><p>“I recently came across this great site [link]<em>refinance  your mortgage, mortgage for all, instant refinancing for student and unemployed</em>[/link]  about mortgage financing.”</p><p>Instead, the anchor texts are more likely to be something  like:</p><ul><li>“I recently came across this great site [link]<em>http://www.example.com</em>[/link]  about mortgage financing.”</li></ul><ul><li>“I recently came across this great site [link]<em>Finatec</em>[/link]  about mortgage financing.”</li></ul><ul><li>“I recently came across this great site about  mortgage financing by [link]<em>John Doe</em>[/link].”</li></ul><ul><li>“I recently came across this great [link]<em> mortgage financing site</em>[/link] by John Doe.”</li></ul><p><strong>If more than 10-20% of your anchor text links are  optimized ones instead of the more “natural” ones, you may raise again a red  flag and may get the value of those backlinks devalued too.</strong></p><p>This is another cause of loss of PageRank recently  alongside with the “unnatural link exchanges” devaluation.</p><h2>In Conclusion</h2><p>SEO is very important for your site, and I’m aware that  you are conscious about it. Being penalized for over-optimization doesn’t mean  that you are a spammer; it just states that <strong>you are trying too hard</strong>.</p><p>So keep in mind, too much good is bad when it comes to  SEO with Google.</p><p><strong>Keep things natural and allow yourself not to be optimized all  the time for everything everywhere!</strong></p><p> <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-0708702640932861";
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