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Putting All Your Eggs in One BasketThis month we would like to review what can happen when you put all your eggs in one basket as far as services, marketing and search engine optimization go. All-in-One Web Design PackagesIn our article Let’s Discuss All-in-One Web Design Packages article posted earlier in April we covered the following so we won't rehash those points in regards to putting all your website building and hosting needs in one basket.
Website PromotionThere have been some major upsets over the last 6 months or so in regards to website promotion and Google. Article MarketingQuite a few months ago now Google adjusted it's logarithm to reevaluate article marketing sites. Some of the big name article marketing sites took a major hit. Why? Because those who do article marketing on a grand scale post the same article in multiple locations. This created a major duplicate content problem in the search results. Google made an adjustment to their logarithm to reduce this duplicate content showing up in the results. Article marketing is a great way to demonstrate your expertise in a subject and earn a link pointing to your website or blog via the bio at the end of the article but what happened to those who article market on a grand scale was they lost all the ranking and influential backlinks because they blasted the same article everywhere they could. First of all, if you are hard pressed for time to put your writer's cap on, write for your own site first. The search engines (and your readers) like to see fresh content. Second, if you want to pursue article marketing consider limiting submissions to places where your target audience is going to actually see them instead of going just for the backlink in your bio. Possibly a couple article sites and a couple of newsletters. Rewriting the article each time would be even better. There are services which will spin your article but these are not very good. You may spend as much time fixing the rewritten copy as it would have taken you to rewrite it yourself. Unnatural Link BuildingGoogle has also taken action against sites and blogs which appear to have an unnatural backlink portfolio. Your backlink portfolio is all the links pointing to your site. Those with unnatural looking backlink portfolios have received notices in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts. Why would you get one of these notices?
What is the natural time to build links without getting caught? No idea. Google doesn't give you any hint. But a sudden number of links pointing to your site in a short amount of time without the corresponding ranking in the search results or traffic in general would surely send up some red flags to the search engines Does this mean you can not do any link building? No. You just have to be more patient and natural about it.
See Create a Link Building Strategy for some more ideas. The key is this takes time if you want things to look natural. Blog NetworksSome of you may have been invited to participate in a blog network. Google hit those too just lately. In March Google deindexed a blog network called BuildMyRank and a few others. Why? Because they considered them to be along the lines of paid links. Webspam(You will be happy this newsletter is late. <wink>) On April 24/12 Google released an update that has really rocked the web/SEO world.
It has a name now (it didn't when first released): Penguin. This update was supposed to do was get rid of the spam in their index (search results), which it did and didn't do, depending on what report you read. Lots and lots of people have been affected by this update. Both those who did some shady things and some innocent people. What this update did is basically pick on those who did not read and follow the Webmaster Guidelines. If you have behaved yourself you should be fine. Some innocent people got hit therefore Google has provided some ways for you to communicate with them if you have been hit with this update:
Ok so why is this newsletter titled Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket. Learn from Others MistakesEach time Google makes a change there is a bunch of whining. Accusations that "Google is Evil" "Google is only looking out for the big brands" start flying around. Why is there so much whining? Because people put their business' future and success in the Google basket. They just depend on Google too much. Learn from these mistakes. Diversify your marketing strategies. Even do some offline marketing stuff.
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ClosingIf you made it to this point, thanks for reading!!! This second newsletter wasn't supposed to be so long but Google has kept us hopping this last 6 weeks. Hope you sign up for our future newsletters. Till next month, behave yourself. Follow the search engine webmaster guidelines (all of them) and diversify your marketing strategy. As Red Green says:
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