Top 5 Things That Will Destroy Your Google Rankings

In my recent series Optimizing On Page SEO, I talked about what to do to improve your Web pages to get high Google rankings; it also true for the other search engines.

I got some e-mail thanking me for telling them what they should do but also asking me what things they shouldn’t do.

BlackHat GoogleStats Top 5 Things That Will Destroy Your Google Rankings

Google Statistics on Malicious and Spam Sites

So I decided to accede to their wishes and look at the top 10 “must avoid” things when it comes to search engine optimization; both on-page and off-page search engine optimization.

From “cesspool links” to “bait and switch”, some of these may be familiar to you and some may not but, in either case it’s always good to periodically remind oneself of these things.

So go though the list below and avoid them completely, unless, of course, you want to be invisible in Google icon smile Top 5 Things That Will Destroy Your Google Rankings

Click here to read more on Top 5 Things That Will Destroy Your Google Rankings

Popularity: 2% [?]

button Top 5 Things That Will Destroy Your Google Rankings

Content Sharing Sites, Squidoo: Ultimate Free Traffic Network, Part 8

In the last post in this series we looked at the one thing you need to get an insane amount of traffic.

This time we’re going to expand on that and look at how to take it to the next level and see how to use powerful content sharing sites to build the main structure of an Ultimate Free Traffic Network.

The number of very high quality back links and how quickly you can improve your search engine results positioning is amazing and this is the real secret to the strength of the traffic network.

There are a large number of content sharing sites, including the article directories we looked at last time, but there are some that are head and shoulders above the others, ones that you must include in your Free Traffic Network.

There is only one place to start is when adding your first content sharing site after you’ve established your article marketing process.

Click here to read more on Content Sharing Sites, Squidoo: Ultimate Free Traffic Network, Part 8

Popularity: 19% [?]

button Content Sharing Sites, Squidoo: Ultimate Free Traffic Network, Part 8

Why You Must Do Social Bookmarking

socialbookmarking Why You Must Do Social Bookmarking By now you’ve surely heard of using social networking sites to get more traffic, in fact, I’ve written about it myself.

Sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Squidoo and many other social networking sites are great for helping get traffic either directly and also, more importantly, from Google.

But fewer people talk about the importance of social bookmarking sites to get traffic and they can be just as good as social networking sites when done properly.

Social bookmarking should be one of your main strategies for maximizing your exposure, ranking higher in the search engines and making more money online.

And don’t just go with one or two sites like Delicious or Digg go for a good number of sites, at least 20-25, and that is for each account you setup. You can and should have multiple accounts but that is a topic for another day.

So here is what you need to do to get more traffic

Click here to read more on Why You Must Do Social Bookmarking

Popularity: 54% [?]

button Why You Must Do Social Bookmarking

2 Proven Ways to SERP Victory

Let’s face it, for free traffic, Google has been the only real game in town for a while.

Are there other ways, sure. And you should use them but ultimately you need to play Google’s game.

How do you play?

While not earth shattering, there is still one thing that Google prizes highly, being GREAT for its customers; that is, they strongly believe if they are exceeding their customers expectations then their customers will continue to come back and they will continue to get more.

Standard business practice really but they embrace it with a vengeance and it obviously is working.

Now the question becomes, what does Google, and the other search engines but particularly Google, think help them exceed those expectation.

That, too, is one primary thing; make sure that when someone is searching they are finding what they want; that is, give the customers what they are asking for

Again, a simple strategy and one that all business should follow (if they want to be successful at least icon smile 2 Proven Ways to SERP Victory

That brings up another question: how does Google decide if something – your Web site, sales page, blog, etc. – is something they want to promote to their customers.

Promote you say?

Well, think about it, isn’t that what the search engine results are, Google “promoting” various Web sites; the higher you are in the results the more they are promoting.

And isn’t that why you want to be high in the results because you want Google to be promoting you more than your competitors.

There are 2 proven things that Google has shown and continues to show that they value highly:

Click here to read more on 2 Proven Ways to SERP Victory

Popularity: 53% [?]

button 2 Proven Ways to SERP Victory