Blue Hat SEO-Advanced SEO Tactics

This technique, although painfully obvious, works as a last resort for a site that has been banned in Google (or any other SE for that matter). Lets say for instance that your site uses some spammy techniques and got banned. The first and most obvious step of course should be to file a reinclusion request with Google as soon as you do a little spring cleaning. However there is two reasons why a person would not want to do this.

Reasons to not file a reinclusion request
1) Your spammy technique does so well in MSN and Yahoo that it would not be worth it to remove for the sake of Google. You do not necessarily care about Google, but it would be nice to at least have another chance at Google.

2) Even with the spam removed Google won’t honor your reinclusion request. So you might as well put it back up and do well in MSN and Yahoo. However getting back in Google would be nice as well.

Here’s how to get back in Google without hurting your status on MSN and Yahoo.
Buy another domain extremely similair to yours. For instance if your site is DogCollarUSA.com buy DogCollarsUSA.com. 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one. Then make the new domain your new primary domain.

Benefits
If your wondering why it seems like I’m picking on Google in particular; it is because Google seems to care more about older domains and is most likely to ban your site for a technique they consider spammy. From my experience 301 redirecting from one domain to newer one has only minor temporary effects on your MSN and Yahoo rankings.

Obvious downsides
Although you get to keep your link popularity in the other engines, you obviously loose your current link popularity in the engine you’re unbanning yourself from, since it probably won’t even bother following the links pointed to a banned domain. Hey, what can I say? Gain nothing…loose nothing. At least your back in the index and any links you can get to switch over to the new domain will show up in the now unbanned engine. Plus any new links you gain count as well. Besides, at least your back in the index with a fighting shot.

PS. Why haven’t I seen any tools designed to find all the sites that link to your site and email them requesting a change in the link? I’d be easy to make and might be useful for situations like this. Also wouldn’t be bad for requesting changes to anchor text. I would also love to see one that goes out and finds all the sites that link to you using  rel=nofollow and sends the site owner an email asking them to remove the nofollow tag.

So Google is getting pretty swell at finding redirecting pages. Javascript is out. CSS is out. htaccess is out. Whats left?

Try redirecting through flash. Flash scripts can forward the browser to a new page. Search engines also can’t read flash and won’t redirect.

I only put this post up in honor of Matt Cutts appearing on WebmasterRadio

I wanna start a section of comments about funny webdesign bloopers we find around the net. There’s gotta be hundreds.

I’ll start us off:
http://www.geraniumlake.com/main.html
This is hilarious. This is a website for a flower shop out of Portland Oregon. When they were recording the background music for the website the employees continued talking in the background. They even start bitching about customers!

I’m noticing changes rippling through many of Google’s Datacenters starting last night.

Here’s what datacenters I’m noticing the largest changes on
64.233.167.104
64.233.179.104
64.233.187.104

Feel free to add to this list in the comments.

Getting sick of exchanging links with graybar sites? When I’m forced to do link exchanges for page rank I take a lil different intial approach. I use the ever cool Page Rank Search Tool on SEOChat.com. It allows you to search Google and sort the results by page rank. Start by looking for phrases on your topic.
ie. “Key Phrase” exchange links url

Now if someone would just invent a search engine where you can search for html tags and include an API, I would be in heaven. They could call it Spamgine.

It’s not very often when you get to witness a brand new business idea take off from a seedling in the frontal right lobe of the brain and hatch into a profit maker and die right before your eyes. For anyone who has ever gotten to witness the birth and death of a business first hand, you can appreciate the simplistic beauty behind it. Here is an unedited transcript between a buddy and I that I would like to share, so everyone may partake in the beautiful rise and collapse of an empire.

WARNING: Strong language and sexual dialog. This dialog should be taken at entertainment purposes only.
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So a couple months ago I went on a frantic article submitting fest for one of my sites and now I’m looking back on the results of that adventure. As far as promoting my articles I did a good job getting them out there. Really pushed them to a ton of article sites and they were high quality articles that received a very high acceptance rate. However now that I’m looking at the benefits I’m shocked to find very little. Even Yahoo (which even tends to ignore nofollow tags) shows only about 9 unique links from sites that posted my articles. Might I also point out two of which were scraper sites.

At this point it got me wondering so I started searching for terms related to those articles that normally would result in my site being one of the only ones. On average 1,500+ results from article directories with MY ARTICLES. Even though I’m still on top for most, I’m wondering why I should even be competing with these guys? They are obviously not helping my site out by giving it a valid link with the article. Eitherway an assumption can be made from looking at the number of inbound links gained from submitting and the amount of competitors I just gained for my unique phrases. That assumption is that I am going to end up screaming “THESE FUCKERS ARE STEALING MY TRAFFIC!” Way to ruin the business people!

At this point I’m not going to recommend everyone quit writing articles and submitting them solely because there is too many people that would argue against me on that, and a few would probably even have quality data to prove I am wrong. However I can assure you that I am going to quit doing it myself.

Side Note: Just to clarify to the curious, I submitted about 12 articles.

IWebTool.com just released a membership based keyword tool that is pretty neat called Keyword Lookup. The registration is free and the tool is pretty cool. It allows you to see all the top searched for words in order. You can not only keep going down the list until you find the least searched for words but you can have it display up to 500 words/page. It also allows you to search for a specific keywords and find the related. Pretty neat tool I thought.

When it comes to using the www. in front or your domain, It doesn’t really matter which one you decide should be the forefront of your linking campaigns. However it’s a good idea to make sure that you are consistant with it. As a policy I make sure ALL portions of ANY linking campaign I do promotes the www. version of my site.

I’ve seen a few questions about this and I won’t bother answering the whys. Just know its a good idea. If you are fiding it difficult to find all the sites that link to you with the non www. url you can always search on msn using the
linkdomain:BlueHatSEO.com -linkdomain:www.BlueHatSEO.com
search string. This search string also works in Yahoo and will successfully return a list of all the sites that link to the non www. version of your site.

An SEO company cold called me today. It was great; she showed me how she got one of her clients a #1 spot in Google! The #1 spot was for a term that gets searched for on avg. 8.6xday but that’s irrelevant. She also spilled all of her secrets to SEO success on me, so I may share with you.

Top SEO Secrets <----Get a pen
1-Put a picture of a lady that looks half business woman and half house wife on the top of your site. She stressed this point
2-Put a picture of a guy with a cell phone. It doesn’t matter where, just as long as you have a picture of a guy with a cell phone.
3-Put a W3C logo and link on your site.

I’ve been doing it all wrong!

If I may make a quick side note. I did NOT take this lady’s words out of context to make them ridiculously funny. She really did believe these three things determined who was first in the SERPS.

Let the traffic roll in!

I told her I desperately needed some SEO for one of my sites named BlueHatSEO.com. She took a look at the site and noticed my guy with the jacket. I assured her that it would be promptly changed to a half home wife half business woman, just as soon as I could. She was relieved. I asked if she could get me ranked #1 for “blue”, #1 for “hat”, and #1 for “SEO”. She told me she certainly could but I wouldn’t want to rank for those terms. Instead the smart thing to do would be, to have her “keyword technician” do some math and find the term that would be most beneficial to my business.

I don’t know. I kind of liked the idea of ranking #1 for SEO, but I guess ranking #1 for “cottagebaconmix” would be more beneficial to my business.

I’m not going to crap down this lady’s neck too much; cold calling is a shitty enough business to be in after all. For god sakes though have some pride! Don’t let someone with a website with “Advanced SEO Tactics” in giant blue letters right across the top keep you on the phone for 45 mins asking questions like what is Google, because they probably don’t need your help as much as the next person on your call list. Though it was pretty hilarious hearing her freak out when Rob kept tapping the Mario Bros. themed hold button really fast.

So this was a crappy post with no real point to it except prove that I’m a jerk to telemarketers. Please listen to me SEO companies. Don’t cold call people! If you want customers, rank for terms they are going to use when trying to find you. Honest, if you asked your knowledgeable friend what a good SEO company would be and he responded, “I don’t know, search for SEO company and go with whoever is on top.” You honestly couldn’t say that would be bad advice.