Have your blog or site been into Google Sandbox before?

Google Sandbox is basically a way Google penalize websites who try to manipulate search results by putting the site into a ‘Jail’ so that site won’t get any search engine traffic. This usually happens when the site owner build links too aggressively, unnaturally or whatever reasons.

Once your blog is ‘jailed’, it takes you 5-6 months to get it back on the search engine.

When this happens to you, what should you do?

These are my suggestions:

1. Continue Building Natural Links

When your blog is penalized, you can’t do anything much about it. Google own the search engine and you didn’t pay anything to Google to rank. There used to be a businessman who loses all his search engine traffic overnight. He has a company with a bunch of products waiting to sell in his warehouse. That’s the risk of relying on search engine traffic.

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I’m been posted lots of Blog SEO strategies and techniques. If you are new to blogging and want to quickly start off with Blog SEO. These 5 Steps are written for you:

Step 1: Identify High Traffic Keywords With Low Competition

This is always the most important step of Blog SEO. You can read more about it at: 3 Easy Steps To Identify High Traffic Keywords

First you use free wordtracker tool to identify keywords which have more than 100 searches per day. Next, you install the SeoQuake free addons on your web browser (IE or Firefox). Do a search for the keywords you picked from wordtracker. If the first page of the search results have webpages no more than PR3, write them down on a piece of paper.

That’s your target keywords you are going to rank for.

Step 2: Internal Setting

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Alright, you won’t see any article directories on this page but I’m going to recommend you a place you can get 900 of them.

Before you start with them, I just want to give you some tips to maximize your SEO benefits from these article directories. Here’s some tips:

1. Don’t Submit The Same Articles To All Of Them

Try not to submit one article to all 900 article directories. As you know, Google will not index webpages which have similar contents with the other. If you try to be lazy by submitting one article to all these directories, the backlinks you’ll get will probably be less than 50.

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This is the improved version of 11 Secrets To Optimize Your Blog For SEO. Hope you enjoy reading it. I’m going to edit this to make it look better.

1. Domain Name

Does the domain name of your blog have the keywords you are aiming for? If you have them in it, it will be very easy for your to rank high for that keyword. I’ve seen many websites who rank high for certain keywords with very little backlinks. These websites and blogs simply have the keywords in their domain name. If you don’t have keywords in your domain name, that’s not the end of the world because the next secret is as important as this.

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