Top Ten Methods to get your Website banned by Google

Top Ten Methods to get your Website banned by Google
To ban your website means that it will no longer be shown in any Google search results. Lowering your page rank in Google is easy. In addition, there are some sure fire ways to get Google and other search engines ban your website. There are many dirty tricks that help to lower the page ranking in google or to get banned.

1. Cloaking is the best way to get a lower page ranking. Here, you need to design your website in such a way that the search engine sees one thing on your website and the visitors see something else. It was an easy way to trick the search engines. However, improvement of Google algorithms has found a way to detect this and ban your website.
2. Duplicate content making is another trick of website designing. The content of the website is duplicated in several pages or across websites. Though there is no copyright violation, if you are using other Google services’ such as the Google Adsense, Google implements a ban your website penalty or a lower page rank penalty.
3. Some spamming sites duplicate content and this can cause problems. However, this problem can be encountered by informing Google about spamming and using tools such as CopyScape that can help avoid malicious people from submitting your content to other websites. In short, you need to be cautious about the content so that you do not get penalties that ban your website or decrease the page rank.
4. Some people use robots to write for their website. Here, the robots duplicate the content and make a few changes here and there. Though there is some changes in the text, the content created by such software (robots) are easily caught and you invite penalties that ban your website so that it never appears in Google search results again.
5. Adding keywords not related to your website design and too many keywords are a big ‘NO’. Using keywords that are not related to your website and repeating keywords are also a way to be awarded with penalties that either ban your website or lower your Google page ranking.
6. Using keywords, which are trademarked names of products by other companies, can get you into a lawsuit.
7. Linking your website to bad neighborhoods or spamming sites are the best way to get banned by Google. You can get a good page rank by website designing that links to a good neighbor or good citizen of the Internet. To get information on bad neighborhood you need to scan the website and check their page rank.
8. Hiding keywords by using the same color as the background is called keyword stuffing. Google uses sophisticated techniques to track such use of keywords. These websites are removed from the search engine index.
9. In addition to keyword stuffing some websites also use tiny text at the bottom of the page. This technique does not work either. In short, both these techniques no more go unnoticed and you invite penalties that ban your website.
10. You name one that helped your sited getting banned by Google.

The best way to avoid penalties that ban your website and increase your page ranking is to design a good website: a well-organized site. Use original content website and try not to use any tricks. Also, check regularly using CopyScape and other tools to find instance of your content on the web. If you find any, immediately inform the webmaster where your content is copied. The webmaster’s address can easily be obtained by doing a Whois search. As the other webmaster will also not want any kind of reduction in his/her webpage ranking, he/she will instantly oblige.

Always try to be HONEST to your readers. Think about the real people, NOT about Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engines. Search engines are smart. Artificial Intelligence. You will be rewarded for your hard and honest work at the end. Don’t haste.

Author: Sone Selva

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