Overcoming Being De-Indexed by Google

I get this question alot, especially from new webmasters venturing into the unknown. In fact I just recently had a very good friend of mine fall victim to having his well established website become de-indexed! So we began backtracking and trying to figure out where he went wrong. You want to know what his problem was? His webhosting company! His site was down way too often for his own good and he eventually got the index boot because of it. Here are some of the things that we checked out before coming to that conclusion.

1. Robots.txt – It’s important to verify the contents of your Robots.txt, especially if you have recently made any changes. Webcrawlers pull up the robots.txt file before crawling your site to understand how you want it indexed. Make sure that you don’t have any code to block the website from being indexed.
2. .htaccess – This is another good place to start. If you happened to recently change your contents of your htaccess make sure that you didn’t mess anything up that could cause you getting de-indexed.
3. Downtime – As stated above this was the reason that my friends website was de-indexed. His host was unreliable (yet cheap), but whats the point of cheap if you have alot of downtime and eventually get your website de-indexed? Pony up the difference for a quality host.
4. No New Content – Although extreme this can happen if you do not update your website. Make sure that you update things atleast monthly and keep your website fresh!

Did Google de-index your site? Wanna get re-indexed and establish what caused the problem? Great here is what you need to do.

• Register Site With Google Webmaster Tools – If you haven’t done this yet then you absolutely need to check out Google’s Webmaster Tools. It really gives you the 411 on what is going on with your website, why Google likes or dislikes it, and how you can improve it. Once within the Google webmaster tools its time to begin playing around and getting used to its back office. This is a very nice tool to gauge your websites health and if its ‘clean’ in Google’s eyes.
• Build Backlink Infrastructure – If for some reason you don’t have a nice backlink structure its time to begin building one. Don’t go overboard or you can find yourself BANNED if the process doesn’t look natural. So make sure to keep things natural and create some beautiful backlinks. Check out my 30 Day Guide or Backlink Ideas sections for hundreds of quality backlink building ideas.

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How to Obtain Free .EDU Backlinks

If you don’t know already, Google and other search engines rank .EDU, .GOV incoming links over normal .COM links. This is because of the credibility and high trust associated with the sites hosted on those TLDs. Not to mention that most edu sites have quality incoming links, have been around forever, and are obviously a credible source of information to the internet. It is even said that a single incoming EDU link is worth 4 PR 3 links! This is why obtaining free EDU links is HUGE! Read more

Conclusion of 30 Day Marketing Guide

It’s sad to see the end of my 30 Day Online Marketing Guide, but don’t despair! I will be adding information just as often as before and will continue to give exceptional up to date information so that everyone can stay ahead of the game. Be sure to check back frequently and add us to your RSS feed! I have some very exciting articles coming out as well as some insider information that can be extremely beneficial to everyone. Read more

Free DoFollow Backlinks with Relevant Anchor Texts – Day 29

There is nothing more beneficial than a relevant DoFollow backlink, that is the true essence behind search engine optimization. I’d like discuss a method different from blog comments, directory submissions, and article directories. Although these are great places to achieve backlinks, its great to add to the diversity of your incoming links to help make things appear as natural as possible. Read more

Creative Link Building Techniques

As we all know, it is necessary to create a beautiful and elaborate backlink structure in order to rank well among SERPs, specifically Google’s. Remember I said beautiful, not black hat and other techniques that will end up getting you banned from Google. You are probably shocked that I’m giving away this type of information for free, but I feel that by giving away such useful information that I will generate some backlinks for myself. Content is king! Enough with the talking, here is the information.

1. Analyze Competitors Backlink Structure – Where are you competitors getting backlinks from? Are you able to also place your link on those resources? Remember not to spam if its a blog or something like that or your posting will get deleted.
2. Forums, Blogs, and Other Similar Sources – Be sure to check that the links are DoFollow rather then NoFollow. That way you can get credit for the link, I have a list of some of these on my Link Building section.
3. Search Digg.com for related Keywords – I guarantee that you will be able to find some places to add your link to when you search for your related term. Such as blogs, or forums as listed above.
4. Contests – Run a contest if possible, this will build incoming links for sure! If the contest is good enough I guarantee you will notice an influx of traffic and one way links (natural)!
5. Offer Your Services – If possible offer your services to high PR websites in exchange for a link. Can you do SEO? Can you write? Find out a service that you can donate to for a quality incoming link.
6. Review Blogs – Review blogs are a great asset to you and to other people, create a community based review blog where people can communicate and give feedback for products. You will build a great resource and a high PR website.
7. Expiring Domains – This is a very unique idea and I was hesitant to give it out. Keep an eye out on expiring domains. This will allow you to purchase an old and dated domain which is great for PageRank and other reasons!
8. Upload your pictures from your site to Flickr, making sure to add a link (deep link) in the description area of the flickr.
9. Reciprocal Linking – Link to others and others will typically link back. You’d be suprised how people will do that.
10. Yahoo Answers – I did an experiment with an unused domain, I created some simple articles and created a search engine friendly website and simply answered Yahoo Answers questions with my link supplied after the very informative answer relating to the topic. I generated a PR of 4 within the first PR update and the site was no more than 1 month old on that update. This is really a very nice tip and you can generate some great results, DON’T SPAM THOUGH! Your comment will be deleted and typically so will your account.
11. First Comment – Be the first to comment on blog posts, why? Because those responses will be on the first ‘page’ of the blog and will rank well if that particular post begins to build PR. Remember substance people, don’t add a bunch of crap.
12. Wikipedia – This is another secret that I didn’t want to share, but try to get your link on to Wikipedia. Remember that you will need to build up your Wikipedia account first so that you can add credibility to it. After that edit an article and add your website if possible. I know that Wikipedia is a no follow but alot of websites scrap info / links from it and are DoFollow links. Be creative and this can be the best backlinking strategy you have seen yet.

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Creating WordPress Themes for HUGE Backlinks – Day 28

This is a very unprecedented method for creating backlinks, most people are extremely intimidated by the idea. Although creating wordpress themes for backlinks can be huge and very beneficial to any website. Consider most WordPress themes, especially popular ones. Look at the bottom of the theme, see the ‘created by’ or ‘wordpress themes by’ and the hyperlink to their website. Go ahead and click on those links and check out the PR on those websites, if it is a popular theme you can bet that they have a PR of 5 or more. Read more

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