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SEO Strategies for 2012 – Post Google Panda and Penguin

By on May 15, 2012

It seems like the Google hand the updates are never-ending and we all need to review our SEO strategies to stay in the game. Many Webmasters depend on their rankings in the search engines and it is very important to stay near the top of those results.

When the first Google pander update hit, one of my websites was severely affected. It was not because of duplicate content, because there wasn’t any. The main reason was bad HTML, broken links, and poor SEO. This happened because the website was so large that I got lazy. My traffic dropped dramatically and so did my income for that website.

http://comluv.com/5-seo-tips-to-fight-back-after-the-google-panda-update/

The recent updates have seen big link building networks like Build My Rank simply shut their doors as Google de-indexed every site in their network. I wonder which link building network is next? I personally use UAW and they are still going at the moment. I guess they are setup a bit different.

In the light of all these changes I have had to review my SEO strategies. This does not mean any drastic changes, it just means that I have left a few SEO steps to gather dust.

SEO strategies I am using

Guest Blogging

Article marketing

Social Media

Better content on my blogs (SEOed)

SEO Strategies I am not using

Mass link building

Mass article marketing

Link Exchange

Buying links

My SEO Tools

Keyword Winner

Thesis

SEOpressor

About mitz

My name is Milica Pantic but everyone calls me Mitz. I am addicted to internet marketing and making money online. Who wouldn't want to live that life? I started out with one website as a hobby and now have over 20. Building websites and making money online is not that hard. You have to actually take action to make money...that is the biggest hurdle! :)

88 Comments

  1. Lee

    February 2, 2013 at 12:52 pm

    Hi mitz
    Just read this post again basically to make sure what I am doing is on the right track and won’t get me penalised. Looks like through reading quite a fewmofmthe comments as well that we have to enhance how google wants us to do things and get rewarded rather than try and get round google and probably get penalised in the long run.

    Great article thanks lee
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  2. Ashley

    December 6, 2012 at 7:48 am

    One thing that most webmasters are still engaging in is buying and selling of links from top notch websites. This doesn’t come natural to Google and that is the reason why most of sites were affected by Panda and Penguin update.
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  3. Tim Sykes

    November 14, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    A bit confused about natural link building, where do you draw the line? Is it ok
    to pay for links on high authority websites and if so should they be related to your site?
    Thanks, you have a lot of great information here…just have to find the time to
    digest it all.
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    • Mitz

      November 15, 2012 at 2:24 am

      Yes it is ok to pay for high quality links to be created but most of the time this never happens… Otherwise they cost a fortune. It is far better to go and guest post on a quality site… Get the content written for you and then you can choose where to add the right links.

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  4. Lee

    September 11, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    Hi surely now we just have to do seo sensibly and we have nothing to worry about. Do it googles way or not at all. I think we have no choice google exploits us in ways. But we are exploiting googles success as well so I think we have to embrace googles updates and get on with what we like doing.

    Thanks lee
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    • mitz

      September 12, 2012 at 1:11 am

      I think that Google is not looking for the impossible..It just wants to show the best results in the search engines to please the humans…If we want to be that best result we have to deserve to be there. :)

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  5. Webbroi.com

    September 5, 2012 at 7:33 am

    I think on-page factors do matter after the recent updates. Thanks for compiling this list of strategies and sharing it to everyone!

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  6. Cheryl Veon

    August 30, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    HI Mitz,

    Thank you again and again for making my hardest subject sooo much easier! I love this website! No one teaches this stuff like you do! I have so much more work to do now! Yikess!!!

    Cheryl Veon
    http://CherylVeon.com
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    • Mitz

      August 31, 2012 at 10:19 am

      Thanks for dropping in Cheryl. Glad you like what you see because I really enjoy creating it.. :)

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  7. Sam

    August 9, 2012 at 3:57 am

    If you can SEO great content, which is what you seem to do then you’re on a winner! If used correctly do think automated tools like Magic Submitter or SENukeX are useful for SEO? Or would you stay clear of them altogether??
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    • mitz

      August 10, 2012 at 4:24 am

      I think certain automated stuff works but it depends how you do it.. I would not point any mass linking to my main sites.

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  8. Nawaz

    July 28, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Off course Google is changing its ranking policies. I have also bad experience of link exchanged. As I linked exchanged one of my website that has good ranking but link exchanged has destroyed its ranking in a week.
    Google panda and penguin update demand quality SEO.

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  9. Liezelle Ann

    July 26, 2012 at 7:09 am

    Google Panda and Penguin updates have severely affected almost all the sites in the web especially the ones that are using bad habits and techniques of SEO. Not just the bad sites but also the clean and dignified sites, have been very affected of these updates. It may be sad to know that unintentionally good sites experienced low ranking from high. I am already confused if SEO is still needed to protect and progress the site’s ranking. What seems to be helpful as of now is to correct everything through On-Page SEO.

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  10. Search Engine Optimization

    June 20, 2012 at 6:22 am

    yes so many panda and penguin update came to remove all the spamy work from the search results, they have also given penalty to the websites,so now need to work very smartly and no spam work should be done, I want to give some tips now after this all updates we need to work mostly geo targeting based, have to be very clear and concern to the content of the website and also have to take care that all the information must be cleared.

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  11. Magento Developers

    June 11, 2012 at 6:05 am

    very important Strategies for seo of a site its very helpful to increase site rank, increase link building of a site with social media blog commenting is very important for make your site at top
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  12. Elaine Salt

    June 10, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    I appreciate the existence of Google Panda because it pushes the online community to further improve their posts. Without it, the world wide web will be flooded by nonsense contents.

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  13. Jason Homes

    June 8, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    Thanks for sharing your insights and tips about Post Google Panda and Penguin. I think I have to try some of your techniques. What other article sites would you recommend aside from ezine and articlesbase?
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  14. Stephen Brand

    June 3, 2012 at 3:58 am

    I’ve seen a lot of “post great content” recommendations in posts like this, which gets old after a while. When I started doing anything on the Internet years ago, I figured posting great content was the only way anything got popular. Later I discover SEO is important, and nearly every SEO advice blog post I see mentions “great content”.

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  15. Zeeshan

    May 31, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    Mitz in my view SEO will never be dead but Google will try to decide the element of SEO because they only want to show results which are not made for robots but for only real human beings.
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  16. C Shedwick

    May 30, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    It is interesting to note, article submission gets a mention as does anchor text. It has not gone unnoticed that lots of articles have disappeared from the front of search results. I think its fair to say the bog standard url has also been neglected in favour of keywords. Some website owners will feel hard done by if they have been penalized for over-optimization.

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    • Mitz

      May 30, 2012 at 11:30 pm

      Articles disappear of the search engines for the same reason everything else does.. It is junk… If you submit quality content around the internet it can still get ranked well.
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  17. Nandita B

    May 22, 2012 at 8:53 am

    Hi MitZ,
    Great article for newbie as well as seasoned Bloggers/SEO Practitioners!

    This happened because the website was so large that I got lazy

    I absolutely agree with the above point. Due to this laziness Panda,Penguin and Kangaroos! are slapping left, right and center to Bloggers.

    Thanks :)
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  18. Marvie

    May 21, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    Well said. I think if anyone is playing the game nicely and following google webmaster rules then they are on the safe side.

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    • Mitz

      May 22, 2012 at 2:08 am

      I agree…Just be honest and do not try things that you think are wrong, or 3even might be wrong.. Building quality, varied links in original content will always be ok.
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  19. Jobr

    May 21, 2012 at 10:52 am

    Oh its really very sad that your site affected. I have read whole of your article. Article submission is one of the major off-page task. Try to create the link wheel for your website that will definitely increase your website traffic.
    Thanks for the share Mitz
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    • Mitz

      May 22, 2012 at 2:04 am

      I do not see it as sad, I see it as an experience to learn by.. I already got my traffic back and to find out the whole story you need to visit the link. Yes I did make kind of a linkwheel but really it was all about optimization and cleaning up…

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  20. Dennies John

    May 18, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    agree with all your points!

    my suggestion is to make your blog more social!
    social media plays a vital role SEO for 2012 !
    Focus very well on good content and on page seo!
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    • Mitz

      May 22, 2012 at 2:10 am

      Yes I agree with being social but sometimes I wonder about it as it is so easy to do and easy stuff never turns out to be quality. Don’t get me wrong though, I do social media..but I hope I am not wasting my time for the future.
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  21. Website Application

    May 18, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    By just having a fan page in Facebook and twitter account you can’t get your website ranked well in Google, you need to engage more frequently with your Facebook page fans Google now started indexing Fan pages and its comments, the same applies for twitter as well. The more signals Google receive from Social Media the more your chance to increase your webpage authority.

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  22. trisha larken

    May 18, 2012 at 7:09 am

    Passion is what make people great in their niche. Writing quality articles can provide quality links for you. Provide helpful articles and surely they will build links on that!
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  23. Mark

    May 18, 2012 at 3:36 am

    Hi Mitz – Do you think a person’s theme, itself, could actually be a significant player here as well? My theme is somewhat of a custom job – and while I love the look of it, I’m wondering if I should bite the bullet and potentially rework using a better more maintainable & SEO-optimized theme. What theme are you using? (As I’m sure you’ve picked an SEO-optimized theme.) Do you think I could replicate the essential look & feel of my site easily using your theme here?
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    • mitz

      May 19, 2012 at 1:27 am

      Yes you can replicate anything with Thesis. But I am not sure this is a problem for you. I am wondering what link building you are doing for each article?

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      • Mark

        May 19, 2012 at 7:55 pm

        I just gave a careful read to your link-building tutorial from February. I can see a few things I can surely improve here – my quantity is about 5-6/month (which sounds *way* too low), and I’ve been using my full page URLs instead of keyword-oriented anchor text.

        For me, it’s definitely been a challenge to find good (niche-related, high PR, dofollow) places to comment & guest post. Thanks for the focus adjustment & I’ll hold off on messing with my theme for now, but Thesis will be the eventual replacement!
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  24. Ami

    May 18, 2012 at 3:09 am

    Post-update periods are always hard, it’s like the aftershocks, aftermaths and holocaust of SEO. Some won’t be able to get up again, some will survive, some will change their courses but at the end of the day, we have to adapt to what the world (and cyberspace) give us.
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  25. Jafar

    May 17, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    To be safe from google panda/penguins .. We have to be natural.

    Leave black hat SEO and all the illegal ways like cloaking, Black hat seo, Link exchange etc.

    I was also using those strategies but now I am safe after getting a new domain.

    :) And now penguin is helping me to get traffic.

    HURRAY !!!!!!!!!!
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  26. Guenter

    May 17, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    Helpful advice. I agree with you that SEO is not dead. However, the days of buying links and spamming the internet with fully-automated software seem to be gone. This will drive the focus back on quality content. And that’s something I really appreciate.
    Guenter

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  27. rohit kothari

    May 17, 2012 at 10:09 am

    Hi mitz,
    seems from penguin update now people don’t have to worry about seo totally coz strategies change little bit now post quality only matter as in my few domain coz of quality content only got pr without doing any link building but it doesn’t mean SEO end its just get smarter
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    • mitz

      May 22, 2012 at 11:03 am

      Well for most of us it just stays the same.. Google itself says SEO is important but only done the right and honest way. We all know what is right and wrong and now we have to stick to those rules.

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  28. Trung Nguyen

    May 17, 2012 at 10:08 am

    I’ve just realized you had chance your blog domain, is that your SEO strategy for 2012 too?
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  29. Joe

    May 17, 2012 at 9:42 am

    Do you feel that the future may be more to do with branding/company name in the SEO realm?

    Also, do you have any tips on how to become a “master of knowledge” within a particular field?

    Thank you,
    Joe

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    • mitz

      May 18, 2012 at 1:49 am

      Becoming a master in any field is 100% easier if you enjoy the topic.. that way you cannot help but absorb all the knowledge you need..

      As for Branding.. I am not sure that this will ever be as important as the quality of content you deliver. You can brand all you want but if your customers are not happy with what you offer then that’s the answer to everything.

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  30. Karolina

    May 16, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    Wow! That’s actually what I was looking for! had been searching for an article about the new Google algorithms and the change of SEO techniques for a while, when Google lead me to your article. Thanks for sharing the useful information, I think there’s a big fog around these things in the scene.
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  31. Shane Ryans

    May 16, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Great article I know that there are many people out there clueless as to what they should do after all the updates. I use many of the techniques you list and it is always nice to see how others are doing it and also see what more I can do myself.
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  32. Anton Koekemoer

    May 16, 2012 at 8:05 am

    One thing that almost all web-masters are saying / confirming about the Google Penguin update is the negative impact of repeated Anchor text. But among all other things I think as long as you keep things natural as possible (not spamming or cloaking or any other form of Simple Black-hat tactics) then you should be fine. One thing is for certain – Once you’ve been hit by an Google Update , its normally quite difficult and time consuming to recover.
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  33. Increse facebook like

    May 16, 2012 at 6:26 am

    For the past few months, SEO experts have been practically living in an analytics dashboard, constantly monitoring organic search data for even the smallest hint of a Google slap. If you haven’t noticed, Google has been busy updating their search products. On top of those changes that they have publicly documented, we are also seeing additional SEO-specific updates by Google.

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  34. Elena

    May 16, 2012 at 12:30 am

    Hello Mitz, I find your articles extremely helpful and read all of them from A to Z. This article has a lot of great points as well. How many guest posts would you say someone should do a month in order to promote their blog and get decent traffic, at least 2,000 -5,000 visitors a day?
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    • mitz

      May 16, 2012 at 2:52 am

      it depends where you guest post but all guest posting has a snowball effect.. The new guest posts gets a surge of traffic and the old ones continue to get dribs and drabs… So after a while you could stop… To really keep my blog pumping I do one or two a week.. If I do more it gets crazy and hard to keep up with comments..

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  35. Jeff

    May 15, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    I don’t think google has a clue as to what will really happen when they do an update, time and time again sites have dropped out of the search for no valid reason. If you have good quality content and update it frequently you should have a good shot at decent rankings, however when it comes to link building what can you do??? According to google any kind of link building is against tos and I read somewhere that the big g considers any type of site or page that has the sole purpose to sell something or make money is spam….mmmm guess their whole site is spam :)
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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 9:07 pm

      No that is not possible as people need online shopping. There is nothing wrong with selling something…it is how you do it that counts..

      And any kind of link building is not spam. You need to quote Google exactly to get the entire message.
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  36. Robert Koenig

    May 15, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    Mass publishing of content to increase your placement in organic search results seems to be going the way of the dodo, which I like quite a bit. I appreciate that Google is rewarding those of us who take this seriously, comment, post articles, and create genuine content that is thoughtful, not just spammed across the internet. Google is a bit of a monster controlling what we can and cannot do in SEO, but I do like that they are pushing in a positive direction.

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  37. Pavel

    May 15, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    For this new update doesn’t really change anything. I f you follow sound SEO principals and do things the right way (the harder way) you should be fine.

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  38. Melissa

    May 15, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    Taking into account all these updates, I guess that every blogger and site owner should think over all these strategies and and changes. Thanks a lot for sharing
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  39. Azam

    May 15, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    People often used to think that Google panda update is the name of quality contents but they did not know it covers other factors also. You have talked too deep about Google panda update and also provided remedy for it.
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  40. Javed

    May 15, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    Article marketing seems to still be the solid way to go. EzineArticles has such a tremendous amount of pages, I believe the most numerous. It may possibly be about the oldest site for hosting articles, so longevity is one of it’s strengths. ArticleBase, same thing. Squidoo, I love. So many utilize it and it’s pages are growing by leaps and bounds. It’s PR supercedes that of EzineArticles, but since PR may be going the way of the dinosaurs, I’m not sure how much that is worth. HubPages seems to get special notice for quality of articles.

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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 9:02 pm

      Yes people think article marketing is dead but a link in original, valuable content is still just that. Article marketing is what built the internet and it may evolve but in the end it is all has its use.
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  41. DaveS

    May 15, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Hi Mitz. I especially liked what you said about guest posting. I guess it is something I should now look into. It is probably not a good idea to ignore that too much longer.
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  42. Leo

    May 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    My 3 SEO strategies for 2012:
    1. social media
    2. social media
    3. social media

    I kid :D it is still important to have strong onsite-SEO score, write good content, do a bit of guest blogging (both ways), etc but social media does seem to be getting me a lot of traffic on many of my blogs and is almost always responsible for a boost in visitors and traffic. My social media ROI has been great!
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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 8:57 pm

      I like Social media but I am not that into it… There is also too much spam for me to commit to it fully… I do like Google plus though… Facebook is good but the spam is unreal. Also most of the users are not even real..
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      • Leo

        May 21, 2012 at 12:07 pm

        I dont know about you, but from a business POV, my clients have been doing just brilliantly on Facebook and Twitter! Very happy campers, the lot of them. Google Plus has been quite good as well. But Facebook has been the most profitable. About the spam, I totally agree with you, they (FB) need to look into this pronto. But users not being real? Never heard that before.
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    • Nile

      May 22, 2012 at 6:56 am

      Social media can be almost useles if your web project is out of seo order (content, layout, etc). Yes, people may visit you but they won’t return. the latest google updates will lead (at least I hope so) to an well-ordered Internet.

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  43. Bryan Ring

    May 15, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Great stuff Mitz, I was wondering when someone would speak plainly of the on going Panda report. Of course you never have failed me since I found you and switched to WordPress.
    Your strategies and tips have propelled my website, generating new customers at a rate unheard of in the 10 seasons I have had my business! ! Hence the almost no blogging I have done in the past two months.
    I have sat on Google’s 1st page since last season for my local area, but now we are showing up in other service areas and have been getting some envious looks from our competitors. Thank you for not quitting, I though I had lost you!

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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 8:55 pm

      No I was just changing my path and it is working a treat!!! I am very pleased with the website move and Google has indexed the new site nicely..

      As for SEO strategies…For local promotions SEO is unheard of so if you do any SEO at all you can rule… When the others catch on to what you are doing you will be so far ahead it will be too late.
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  44. Katja

    May 15, 2012 at 10:42 am

    I don’t think SEO is dead, but after the new updates a lot of people are having to rethink their strategies… A few white-hat SEO pages got hit as well from what I have heard so it’s not just about sticking to white-hat – I think we will still have to see how Penguin will affect us.

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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 8:51 pm

      Yes but there are so many factors for white hat…They might have thin content, or duplicate, or they might have broken links… Creating content is turning into a profession and soon not just anyone will be able to do it..
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  45. jan

    May 15, 2012 at 10:19 am

    Thanks for this article Mitz, I believe I am on the right track – but I do have to do more of the SEO work as in social book marking, guest posting and article marketing – I have just submitted to Ezine and CommentLuv to date. I have only been marketing since October 2010 and already I have seen so many changes and updates in that time!
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  46. BuySellWordpress

    May 15, 2012 at 9:44 am

    In my opinion, guest blogging and social media are the most effective and the most important ways. I prefer using them
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  47. Kris

    May 15, 2012 at 9:02 am

    Well I have learned my lesson from this. Before I was using mass article creation using some kind of software that spins articles (I won’t mention what it is) but it destroyed my blogs and Google shut it down for good. So I made the right thing and that is to write real content and real information. I notice that I don’t just get some readers and commenters but I learned as well as a person. Thanks for these tips as well I will try to do these techniques rather than the upper ones.
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  48. ganpat

    May 15, 2012 at 7:31 am

    gr8 points .. and yes there is a new point that the articles under 250 words are under attack of penguin update of google..

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  49. Aasma

    May 15, 2012 at 6:52 am

    Hey Mitz,

    Really useful and essential post, I think Google only want us to follow white hat SEO and do quality link building but slowly and continuously.
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  50. Brandon

    May 15, 2012 at 5:59 am

    I am still sticking to my old ways of doing SEO. I do Whitehat SEO so I think I won’t have any problems. My only concern is the repetition of anchor texts. From now on I will be doing partial match of my keywords. This is what most SEO specialists advised me.

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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 8:42 pm

      Well if you didn’t get hit by the recent updates you might be ok… Just need to vary your anchor text and make sure it is in original content. I think that combination is the best! :)
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      • Brandon

        May 16, 2012 at 5:19 am

        How about relevance? What if your site is mentioned in a website that is not relevant to your niche. Does that help in SERP?

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        • mitz

          May 17, 2012 at 12:48 am

          I think it helps to get mentioned anywhere but even better when sites in your niche mention or link to you. This not only builds your reputation, but gives you a good link. You cannot stop others mentioning you though.

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  51. Ricky Strode

    May 15, 2012 at 5:21 am

    Hello Mitz. I am not really that knowledgeable in the SEO department. I know that the idea is to create awesome killer content and pick keywords and write a good description on it. I have about 20 pages on the first page of Google for some pretty competitive key words. So, I am guessing that I am doing something right. However, I know there is still a lot to learn, which is part of the reason why I am here. The key words I am after have much more competition than the ones I am currently ranking pretty good on, I also know that it may take quite a bit of time and effort to achieve the rankings I want for the super competitive keywords I want to also rank for. However, I am more than prepared to do the work to get there.

    I would like to say thank you, because of you and a few other blogs I read I have been able to come up with the strategy I am even using. I had to learn as I go. The last website I built before recently building a new site with WordPress was back in the mid 90′s. I am pretty sure you can relate with how much has changed since then. So, needless to say it has been quite a bit of a learning curve for me. However, this blog has helped make it so much easier for me.

    Thanks again,

    Ricky Strode
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  52. sanjay

    May 15, 2012 at 5:00 am

    Good read Mitz!
    I just wanted to know how many article directories do you submit to, and how many per week or month? Thanks a lot!
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    • mitz

      May 15, 2012 at 5:07 am

      I do a small promotion for each article on this site… So for example I will add an article to Ezine pointing back to this post…I will also guest post…and maybe post on one of my free blogs.. All original content… All about this topic and relating back here.
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      • Jasmine

        May 21, 2012 at 9:14 am

        You are my guru. These techniques do sound really good and should be fine with any further updates from the Big Boy. Thanks for the sharing.

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