Post on 08-May-2015
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How to Get Pwned by GoogleCharles Floate
A Bit of Background1.I’m a Grey Hat 2.I Publicly Say I’m a Grey Hat3.I Show People (For Free) How to be a
Grey Hat
All On My Blog -
One Year After Starting My Blog!
1. Blog Penalized – “Pure Spam” Penalty2. 7 Other Sites Penalized – Pure Spam3. AdWords Account Suspended4. Blogger Account Deleted (Along with 15 Blogs)
My Thinking?
Reality?
What To Do Now?
Nothing.
Yup.
I Decided to do Nothing.
SEO Blog With No SEO Traffic?
I saw it as a Challenge.
I Had To Step-up Elsewhere1.More Social Growth2.Get Active on Forums3.More Guest Posts (Prior to Penalty I’d Done
Around 1 Per Month)4.Sharing Communities – Reddit, Inbound.org,
GrowthHackers etc…5.Grow Other Web Properties6.Create More Content!
Social Networks
Step 1) Analyze Find The Best Networks to Target (I Went 1 by 1 via Best Traffic Source)
Twitter Showed The Most Traffic –
Step 2) Growth
1.Engage With Influencers – Often get ReTweets from them
2.Grow Following (I use/d TargetPattern & Twitter Ads)
3.Build My Personality
Step 3) ConversionBuild Loyalty-Answer Questions-Share Others Content-Engage With Users Who Share Your Content-Convert Commenters to Followers
Forums
This Was HARD. I Started Engaging More With BHU –
It quickly paid off.
Guest Posts
Haven’t Been Up To Scratch! I do Plan, but don’t Execute.
Something I need to work on.
Sharing Communities
Engage and Share, EVERYWHERE! More Engagement on Reddit –
Started my Own Community –
Web Properties
This Is What Got Me In Trouble! I had links pointing back to my own sites all over the shop!
But, They Refer Epic Traffic!
Content Creation
Step 1) More Blog Posts I went from doing one a week…
To 3 a Week!
Step 2) More Media1.Videos2.Webinars3.Imagery4.Podcasts
Step 3) Involvement 1. Interviews
2. AMAs
3. Commenting (See AJ Kohns Guide)
4. Do Interviews
5. Help Others
-Forums
-Q&A Sites
-Communities
The Results?
Penalty HitsRemoved for all
Branded Anchors
I Kick In my Content Marketing
Campaign
You Really Don’t Need Google.
Thanks For Watching
GodOfSEO.Co @Charles_SEO Facebook.com/GodOfSEOCo