Negative SEO a New Emerging Trend

Negative SEO has become new talk around the town. Will companies wage a bitter war against competitors for coveted no.1 position in Google? Is this become acid test to Google?

So what is Negative SEO?

Implementing techniques set as “spam” and “over optimization” by Google against competitors to push ranking down of competitor’s website. Now that Google introduced penalty against unnatural link building one can understand how this be used against competitors.

This is particularly true of Dan Thies’ case. When Dan openly praised Google for going strong against blog networks and spam links some people who are upset about new update set Dan as symbolic target. Some one set 1 million scrapebox links. The result: Dan got warnings and lost some rankings.

As the cliché saying goes, everything is fair in love and war. SEOs who believe in results and not ethics can use negative seo as a brutal weapon to overthrow competitors.

How negative SEO can use as throttle?

• Building lot of anchor texts in quick time.
• Building links from irrelevant websites.
• Building too many no follow tag links.
• Copying the competitor content and publishing same in authority website.
• Not may all of the above work. This is just a wild guess and my personal thoughts and I don’t have any evidence apart from Dan Thies’ case.

Is SEO Community divided?

For the first time, SEO community looks divided. It’s I SEO versus you SEO. My SEO Company against your SEO Company.Until now people were following unethical practices to achieve rankings. Now people are affecting others website directly. Yes, previously too websites were affected but a position or two. Now the magnitude of consequence is unthinkable. Penalization may push you too low than you expect.

Did Google made a wrong move?

Without any iota of doubt, Google action is plausible. However, Google has little answer to help small business victims. How Google can judge one who submits website for reconsideration as a victim? Even Google finds this mess. Will this be considered as human intervention?

Sure, Google will be already in action to overcome this loophole. One more update may come. It takes time. Let’s wait.

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Google Announces Web Spam Algorithm Update

Google send shivers down spine of Search engine optimizers who follow spam techniques. From the day 1, the Google is trying to protect SERP from being manipulated. The war is on not against SEO but Spammers who deliberately choose the techniques that are against Google guidelines.

The results of Google are improving by the year. This time too, like Panda update, algorithm affect tons of websites nearly about 3% of search queries show improved results. The penalization of web spam is aggressive in 2011, pushing keyword stuffed and unnatural linked websites to the new level of abyss.

Anchor text link play a critical role in the ranking of the website, where directories and bookmarking are easily available. Keyword plays a key role for website to be found. It is the title tag, footer links, meta description and below fold of the website are hot spots to place the keywords.

It is no secret that a website requires links and keyword rich content to be in top. While white hat seo dedicated in creating content and often used blog as platform, which help for readers and Google. Black hats SEOs used more of satisfying the technical guidelines of Google and forget what people want. They find out the loopholes of Google and try to maximize on it. This directly affected Google results.

Google has given name for this update as webspam algorithm update. It is strictly going after:

Keyword Stuffing

High usage of keywords starts from meaningless title tag and description, headings and ends with footer links. A visitor lands to website searching for information from Google finds only keywords all over the webpage. Some of them are in bold, italic or underline. Some of them start with the first word of the key phrase; the first two keywords of long phrase; or only specific key phrase and nothing else is totally garbage. Google is coming soon to hit these websites or has already slapped with update.

Duplicate Content

Two ways website can get involved with content duplication. One, stealing & publishing or copy & paste whatever same content in two or more websites is totally unacceptable to Google. Second, same content, in all the inner pages, changing only keywords in headings, title and meta tags and minute changes in body of the content. The latter affects really hard. As it is well intentioned content duplication exclusively for Google.

Link Spam

One who follows the back link automation services, Stone Age link building like blog commenting and signature links with anchor text. Automatically finding blogs and commenting same content by bots. These are come under link spam.

 From the word go, in its blog, Google said they love SEO and this is not against “over optimization” as there is nothing a word like that. This is against Web Spam.

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How to Local SEO for Global Websites without Physical Mailing Address

One of the challenges in local search engine optimization is positioning ranks for website not having the local physical mailing address. Look at the Google SERP results carefully for your local keywords: 6 to 7 Google map listings have acquired the rank in first page out of 10 positions. The benefit of submitting in Google maps and owning local TLD extension domain is undeniable.

However, a well optimized website and with high quality links global websites can rank no: 1 position in Google. So here is the roadmap to improve the rankings and to compete with local business.

Local Landing Page

Dedicate the landing page by location. For example segregate html file name by demographic: abc.com/preschool/Bangalore/Karnataka.html

Meta Tag Optimization

If file name is to importance, the title tag is a strong indicator what the page is about. Use wisely the title tag: Location + product or product + location: Bangalore Preschools or Preschools in Bangalore.

Overusing the location words falls largely on the keyword stuffing. The Header tag should strengthen the products and not location. For example Montessori schools in Bangalore, Reggio Emilia Schools in Bangalore.

Unique Local Content

If you are trying to add hundreds of landing pages to the websites and replacing the location or physical mailing address you are creating a panda. Don’t create a website just for the sake of getting local traffic by duplicating the content. For a month or two you drive traffic but go down drastically. Create the reviews and user generated content and write unique content about the city or town.

Local Links

Building local links take more time than usual. Contact local bloggers to contribute content to your blog and at the same time be a guest blogger for their blogs. Get links from local business directories and portal sites. Target the audience in facebook and twitter by demographic. 

Local search optimization for global business is time consuming. But aint impossible.

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