Comments on: 5 Myths About Google Penalization

By: AyJay

AyJay — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:18:30 +0000

Wow, eye opening stuff! I was completely taken by these myths myself, particularly the one about adding large amounts of content. Actually I’ve been writing dozens of unique, high quality articles and then slowly adding them to my sites an article a day at a time out of fear for being dropped in the (Google, of course) search engines. I’m off to go post a dozen articles at once, haha!
Aaron

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:46:08 +0000

Hey Luis,

I never bought traffic (Adwords or some other source) so I don’t know any tips. I do know that if you learn how to rank well in search engines naturally and put in the effort to get quality links, then you’ll be rewarded with a constant stream of free visitors.

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:06:51 +0000

In a recent past I did two things, and one of them OR both of them resulted in google penalization.
- Signup for a list of lots of HIGH RANK PR links
- Downloaded software that finds dofollow blogs

VEREDICT: decrease in PR.

Also Tomaz and about buying traffic (not links) what sugestions you can give us ?

By: Michela

Michela — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:07:34 +0000

Hi there, can someone explain to me what the Bounce rate exactly is and how it should be evaluted…
Thanks & Regards
Michela

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:25:39 +0000

Hey Brandon,

Yes, my bounce rate is similar but I don’t really worry about less traffic from SEs. Just build more pages or let C2 work for you.

By: sarip bin ahmad

sarip bin ahmad — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:13:52 +0000

Hi Tomaz..

a lot of good stuffs and info.

By: David

David — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:27:47 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

Does buying links include link building services such as the website reputation builder from SiteSell or the outsourcing of link building?

Just where does Google draw the line between what is a bought link and what isn’t?

By: Brandon M.

Brandon M. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:29:42 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

Thanks as usual for the great information. It’s definitely always better to base conclusions on actual evidence and experience instead of rumor.

I do have a quick question: what is your average bounce rate for your product-based sites, if you don’t mind sharing? Mine seems to fluctuate between 45% and 60% during any given week. Do you think a higher bounce rate can result in the SEs sending you less traffic?

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:13:19 +0000

Yes, my thoughts on myths are based on my own experiences but also on stuff that I read on other blogs and sites. I didn’t see any quotes like that from Google because they like to keep things secret so that no one knows for sure – and therefore you may be very careful – like the scared SBI-ers from the forums were.

That’s what Google wants – to keep people scared. Better too scared than not scared at all.

But I surf on the web and I see all sorts of sites which bought links, which link to online casinos from the homepage and all sorts of similar bad stuff and yet I see that those sites still get good traffic and keep their PR.

So whatever an amateur SBI-er comes up with, even if it borders on the “dark side”, is still miles away from being penalized.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:14:04 +0000

This is a very helpful article Tomaz. Especially to SBIers, who hear so much about black-hat behavior that they (well ‘we’ really) probably get a bit too carried away with it sometimes.

I think lots of newcomers to the world of web business (like me!) worry far too much about things they’ve heard Google penalizes, when Google is probably only out to get the big, blatant, system-abusers.

The lesson I’m hearing from you here is that if you’re building a genuine niche site, with quality pages created by real people, it’s better to focus on expanding your site than agonizing over the minutiae of a penalization system that Google may or may not actually have in place, and probably won’t impact your drop-in-the-ocean site anyway.

Thanks for a timely reminder to just get on with the job

Derek

P.S. It would be interesting to know whether the things you call ‘myths’ are inferences based on your own experience with your (very successful) sites, or on actual statements made by Google itself?