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Google-Spanked
theronatwork
Published on March 4, 2013
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Bend over and grab your knees
Well, I learned a HARD lesson in the past few weeks about ranking on Google and getting on the first page of the search results with my cb-radio.siterubix site.
It would seem that for some odd reason, Google does not like it when you stuff too many keywords (or tags) into your SEO-toolkit. Well thousands really.
Here I was plugging away with JAAxy, researching new keywords to add to my articles and finding dozens of high ranking terms that I could use. Everytime I would find another high ranking one I would add it to the list. This went on for weeks. As I noticed the sales going down I got more desperate and added even MORE, thinking that it would help to put me back on the first page and hopefully in the top five results. NOPE
Not even a kiss goodbye
Apparently Google tends to frown upon this practice and will flag your site as spam, or playing the system and knock you back to page 900 or so, never to be found again if at all.
I have fixed all the keywords and hope that over time I can slowly climb back to the first page of a Google search. This means that I either have to wait a few weeks (or months) or I can start a new site and get back up to page #1 again.
The point of this little whine, is be careful how many keywords you use in the SEO-toolkit. I have been told that the recommended number is 6 to 8, and then use keywords throughout your articles, making a light keyword salad where the keywords appear naturally in your sentence structure.
Well, I learned a HARD lesson in the past few weeks about ranking on Google and getting on the first page of the search results with my cb-radio.siterubix site.
It would seem that for some odd reason, Google does not like it when you stuff too many keywords (or tags) into your SEO-toolkit. Well thousands really.
Here I was plugging away with JAAxy, researching new keywords to add to my articles and finding dozens of high ranking terms that I could use. Everytime I would find another high ranking one I would add it to the list. This went on for weeks. As I noticed the sales going down I got more desperate and added even MORE, thinking that it would help to put me back on the first page and hopefully in the top five results. NOPE
Not even a kiss goodbye
Apparently Google tends to frown upon this practice and will flag your site as spam, or playing the system and knock you back to page 900 or so, never to be found again if at all.
I have fixed all the keywords and hope that over time I can slowly climb back to the first page of a Google search. This means that I either have to wait a few weeks (or months) or I can start a new site and get back up to page #1 again.
The point of this little whine, is be careful how many keywords you use in the SEO-toolkit. I have been told that the recommended number is 6 to 8, and then use keywords throughout your articles, making a light keyword salad where the keywords appear naturally in your sentence structure.
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