{"id":1364,"date":"2012-08-27T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2012-08-27T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:42:30","slug":"is-google-penalizing-sites-for-profile-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/is-google-penalizing-sites-for-profile-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Penalizing Sites for Profile Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is Google Penalizing Sites for Profile Behavior?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s true, Google is a profiler. Your back link profile, and timing of it all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It appears to me that Google is now Penalizing sites based on Back Links showing up in unnatural \u201cBatches\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It seems logical that Google is grading your entire Back Link profile based on new logic that includes when and how often Links are acquired, not only the source of those back links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your web sites back link Profile looks like this: with the line representing a week or a month interval with very little new back links in between those intervals, you look pretty unnatural don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>_____30 links__________27 Link___________30 Links ___________27 links<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/image\/04tI6nneNB0Iy?utm_source=zemanta&amp;utm_medium=p&amp;utm_content=04tI6nneNB0Iy&amp;utm_campaign=z1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 06: Brian McClendon, ...\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/04tI6nneNB0Iy\/150x98.jpg\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 06: Brian McClendon, ...\" width=\"150\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAN FRANCISCO, CA &#8211; JUNE 06: Brian McClendon, Google VP of Engineering for Google Maps, speaks during a news conference about Google Maps o<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019re Google. You really dislike any attempt to manipulate your algorithm.\u00a0 So you want to build in a bunch of signals that will tell you when a site is trying to unnaturally manipulate its rankings in your search results.<\/p>\n<p>So you bring together your very talented spam group, and some of the best engineers in the world and come up with what you would consider sure fire signs and signals that a web site is trying to game the system, and you\u00a0 make some pretty big (and good) changes to how you rank sites.\u00a0 Many of you know these changes as \u201cPanda\u201d, and \u201cPenguin\u201d up dates.\u00a0 You can search either to find an abundance of SEO information about this. It rocked some of the SEO world.<\/p>\n<p>But something that hasn\u2019t been discussed recently showed up in a blog post at <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog<\/a>\/ and written by one of the Internets best \u201clocal SEO\u2019 guys, Mike Blumenthal.<\/p>\n<p>It relates, in this instance to \u201cLocal SEO\u201d and how Google perceives reviews posted in bunches. Basically there have been all sorts of problems recently where a business has several clients\u2019 review them and it never shows up on their Google Places Listing. The Blog I linked to above, and response from Google explains that when they see a bunch of reviews come in at once, or over a short period of time, it can flag them as spam reviews because they assume the business has sent out a request for those reviews. Google wants reviews to be a natural occurrence. So reviews are good, requesting reviews are bad, and that\u2019s how they assume you have requested reviews from your customers. And that is (in my opinion) exactly how Google feels about back links to a web site.<\/p>\n<p>Now, those of us how have been in Internet Marketing and Web Promotion for long time understand that if you just throw 1000 links at a page over a short period of time, that you may get a nice ranking for a day or week, but the \u201cbounce\u201d effect will pull that ranking down pretty fast,\u00a0 nothing new there, \u00a0but what does seem new to me is not only will throwing a bunch of links at one time hurt your rankings, but building links in \u201cbatches\u201d may hurt your rankings as well. Isn\u2019t that the same premise as getting a bunch of reviews at once\u2026 it\u2019s just not natural.<\/p>\n<p>Now clearly this will depend on the type of back links.\u00a0 It is natural, one would assume that if your blog gets picked up by a national site, or distributed by them to their national audience, that you will get a \u201cBatch\u201d of back links. Seems natural right?\u00a0 Happens to our site now and then, and we never see much happen in the negative way. Those back links all come from Internet Marketing type sites, and all quote the same blog or information.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026.. (drum Roll)\u2026.If those \u201cbatches\u201d of back links are from less than high quality sites, (like free directories), or low value blog\u2019s, or low value blog comments, or completely unrelated sites, or social bookmarks, I would assume Goggle may ignore them, or actually penalize your site rankings.\u00a0 Yes, I think they are now penalizing for Profile Behavior, as much as for the Back Links to your site.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems to me that a profile penalty is about the hardest predicament to overcome. It\u2019s kind of like having to walk around town with a convicted felon sticker on your head and Google is the Police.<\/p>\n<p>So it all goes back to doing web visibility and \u00a0PR as if Google Didn\u2019t exist. In many ways the last year of changes to how Google ranks sites have changed how an SEO or a web master should view rankings forever. If your SEO is using 2011 tactics, you may be heading in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=f35d787b-c4d2-45e2-8e80-a76e9d00a127\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Is+Google+Penalizing+Sites+for+Profile+Behavior+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1364\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Is+Google+Penalizing+Sites+for+Profile+Behavior+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1364\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it all goes back to doing web visibility and  PR as if Google Didn\u2019t exist. In many ways the last year of changes to how Google ranks sites have changed how an SEO or a web master should view rankings forever. 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