Comments on: Top 3 Most Dangerous SEO Techniques to Avoid in 2013 and Beyond

By: Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:27:14 +0000

I read your blog and accept all your point. These all are the very valid points need to avoid when you want to proper SEO. If you not avoid these things, you not able to get traffic from Google and chance to get penalized by Google. Thank you for sharing useful information.

By: seo made diy

seo made diy — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:05:51 +0000

I agree to you for your first techniques and second techniques but I am not agree of your third techniques because you are saying that guest posting is danger but it is good for us . In future we have need only guest posting because of that we can get truth links what google never deny.

By: annon

annon — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:22:44 +0000

I agree to a point. SEO Mass link building still very effective. The only difference is now you can’t be as blatantly obvious. But I can still rank a page with what I call “blasting” a page. You can do this with software.

It still works the only thing now is to make sure you filter your list, so you don’t add your link to a spam filled site. You can also create a buffer site as a layer (or two) in between your site. SO you create a social bookmark that links to your homepage. Then you take that bookmark link and “blast” it with hundreds of backlinks.

A lot of the page rank still leaks through. Hard to detect, especially when using 2nd tier and 3rd tier links.

Main thing is your anchor text can’t be the title of your page for every single link. I change mine up all the time. And I haven’t noticed too much difference in ranking.

I’m sure if you got stupid you could possibly get “hit” by Google. But what if I took this URL, and blasted it on my own to 100000 comments and 100000 forum profiles with the same anchor text. Would Google bring down your sites ranking? No that’s why it wouldn’t work. The minute they start docking sites for backlinks, you could just add your competetions backlink with some anchor text and blast it all day and all night.

This post is true to a point. But not all Blackhat techniques will get you in trouble. In fact it’s quite easy to get away with, as long as you don’t go crazy with it.

Thanks for the post.

By: GO Mungo SEO

GO Mungo SEO — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:37:21 +0000

I also believe that the only thing google has got is the ability to ban certain directories that it feels are worth banning and if you are unfortunate enough to be linked to any of these sites then google will slap you very hard. Content marketing, article writing, press releases are still worth practicing within your whole seo strategy and then use as much of the social networking sites to market the content. The only problem is that any of the good forums seem to have smartened up there act too and avoid allowing any form of back link activity taking place within their website. SEO is definitely gettting harder, compared to a few years back.

By: sandeep kumar

sandeep kumar — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:14:32 +0000

This post is very useful according to Google latest panda.

By: Prachi Sharma

Prachi Sharma — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:36:51 +0000

Do agree with this post, In year 2013 google algo is just concentrating on quality content with out keyword stuffing.

By: james franklyn

james franklyn — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:27:27 +0000

I have some doubts in my mind about various techniques that might be useful and harmful as well. You clear all the doubts and know i have some more deep knowledge about Search engine ranking process. Thanks for sharing

By: John Gibb

John Gibb — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:06:09 +0000

I don’t agree. Mass guest posting sounds like mass emailing or mass article writing or mass advertising or mass speaking or mass podcasting… you get the idea.
Is mass ___ anything spam, or wrong or unethical? I don’t think so… We all want to generate maximum traffic and sales…
Wrong link building is anchor text over do, that doesn’t look natural…
As for Zebra/any any other upcoming updates… do you really fret about such, instead of working on your content and guest posting genuinely?
Hope it helps

Abusing any method will make it less effective in a given niche or industry, be it guest posting or whatever. This doesn’t mean Google will penalize the method, unless it is directly used to manipulate your site ranking into SERPs.
Google states this clearly that regardless the method, if you’re using it (not abusing it) to manipulate rankings, then you could be in trouble.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:52:56 +0000

no one said they don’t work. they do. what worked 5 years ago still does. just tempo the velocity and refine it. it just won’t work on a large scale and time to be succesfull for a bussiness wnating to get long term results from search engine rankings.

these are techniques that are to be avoided when done large scale in my opinion.

“hunt you down” refers to various algorithm updates that will tackle these techniques. (Panda v.x, Penguin and other various animals eventually or other stuff 🙂 )

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:13:52 +0000

Without getting too in-depth, every single one of the techniques above still work and they work well, and I have noticed nothing dangerous about implementing them properly.

Google still hasn’t figured out how to “hunt down” anything. It was honestly that line that made me want to comment. That line is such nonsense as Cody Cahill says below.

If that line was intentionally ridiculously hyperbolic to induce discussion, bravo. That’s a solid technique for improving time-on-site and user interaction. 🙂