How to do SEO after this Penguin update?

Stuff like this works. Unfortunately?, they require effort and investment in both time and money.

- Guest Posting on Quality, Related Sites for Good Content

- Press Releases (no, not the free submissions sites where anything goes - try prweb and the like). If you don't have anything news worthy to say, then don't publish a press release. Your goal is get real sites to link to you, not get backlinks from press release sites.

- Quality, Human Edited General Directories - such as DMOZ, Yahoo Directory, BOTW and a few others.

- Quality Niche Related Directories & Curated Resource Lists - you'll likely need to pay for most of these. A good tactic is to go through the resource lists to find broken links, then email the owner with details of the broken ones you found and then suggest yours. How to find these lists? A good place to start is by looking at your competitor's backlinks, or even sites are related but not really competing with you.

- Q&A Sites like Yahoo Answers, niche related forums

- Quality Social Bookmarks (no not hundreds). Maintain 4-6 social bookmarking accounts that you will update manually. Good sites are Diigo, Mister-wong, jumptags, digg, Webmark. In addition to a few of your best posts, you also bookmark everything else I listed before including guest posts, press releases, etc.

- Limited amounts of commenting on niche related blogs, using your name and not a keywords.

- Setup profiles at the major social sites: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Friendfeed, Youtube and frequently update them. Whenever you do a guest post or have a press release, share it. Also setup profiles for the site at other places like Technorati, Crunchbase, etc, etc.

- Publish content on your site that people want to link to. (linkbait) Infographics are a good start. When you do one, you market it to people in the niche and also submit it to places like visual.ly and other infographic directories.



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You can do all that, or you can continue to take shortcuts via thousands of bookmarks, article directories, blog networks, etc. and be bankrupt again when Google rolls out the next update.

If you don't about how to overcome the Penguin algorithm, please don't offer the page #1 guarantee. You dare to take the risk.

SEO hasnt changed really its just that marketers got lazy (yes even me)

Build good content and build good quality links to that content and dont use keyword rich anchor text use a lot of different anchor text like

Click here
more info
find out more

Dont over optimise your pages you just need to think about your visitor and see if it is useful to them if it is then you are onto a winner.

The hardest part is giving good value to your visitors and this is what google is trying to clamp down on.

Danny

danny, are you matt cutts' brother? will be taking your advice seriously...

After google penguin we things are sure like we can't follow any backlink hat SEO technique and if our website is involve in any type of spamming or keywords stuffing or trying to get ranking against those keyword which are not related to your website contents.

One thing for sure try to target related keywords and do backlinks on slow phase. Similarly follow only white hat SEO.

I think you got some idea from those above posts. You've to do all the things but it should be related to your niche.If you are not related to niche then you can be treated as spam.

you should avoid slapping things together. You should only have something on your website because chances are things can not be seen anyway.

Hi, My advice is that You should charge more money for your offline clients as now SEO is much costly. You need to build high quality unique content, build high quality links from authority sites, build both nofollow and dofollow links, build both one way and two way links. Do not build spammy and mass links. Every thing should be natural as now Google is not just a Program, its totally becoming natural.

don't over optimized your site, you can try to do only quality work, use only unique and quality content and try to get backlinks from those sites that are relevant to your site topic

employ a wide variety of link building strategies because you can never tell what Google is going to do next. diversify a link portfolio by creating links from social bookmarking, blog commenting, profile signatures, article marketing, web 2.0 properties and social media platforms. This way if Google devalues one kind of link with an update to their algorithm, then the site's rankings won't suffer dramatically.

Do not overoptimize your articles or site contents, vary your anchor texts and sometimes also use a raw URL

From my Side to Overcome You must try Unique Contents when you try SEO like Articles and Press Release Submission. Avoid Spinning which is not readable. Content must be not Copied from somewhere else. Well I also got penalized from one Penguin In past i was on Top Position so its automatically dropped. I tried Blog Commenting daily for my site. It happened with this. Now I am Trying Web 2.0 and Press Release which are good for fast Indexing into search engines. I am getting faster lifting instead of software work. Well I always prefer Manual work which is alive for Longterm. So it Doesn't hurt anytime. SEO will run smooth in next few days if you do SEO Manually.

If I were you I'd try to find and figure out what in the way I was doing things gets in the way of the Penguin, reverse-engineer your style !

focus on your content. content should be unique and best to stay readers. avoid spammy comments. use social bookmarking will help you to recover from penguin update

Check your content, check the quality of your backlinks. Same old, same old...

You better to prevent order which offers "First page Ranking Guarantee"
Who knows what will happen with Google updates?

When You make a deal with a customer, tell them that you do your best to improve ranking. After penguin update, Diversity of backlinks improve SEO.

what i changed in my linking plan is mainly the anchors, i send like 50% of my links with domain name, as well, i work hard on my tier2 linking network, to make my tier1 links more "quality"

Manual SEO also worked for me. I'm just a novice when it comes to internet marketing but with my amateur knowledge, I'm able to reach PR1 in 2 months. I just update my content once a week, but I always make sure that it is quality and useful content that people can use as reference. Once a week, I do blog commenting, profile links, and social bookmarking. Answering questions at Yahoo Answers has also helped me a lot in terns of driving traffic to my blog. In 2 months, my Alexa went down to 3 Million. I know this is just a small leap for most SEO experts but considering my limitations, I'm very happy with the results.

Aside from that, I have setup up meta descriptions and keywords for each post and made sure that each post title is SEO-optimized. There are lots of great advice on this thread. I hope I can follow all of them. Thanks!

Quality Content, Avoid spam things like blog comments or forum profiles, vary your anchor text, get high pr links from relevant sites.

After that, I don't think there is something can promise that the ranking will be on page 1.
It changes a lot, hard to get good ranking. Unless there is updates of SEO, or new methods appear.

More backlinks to internal page and more vary your anchor text this thing was my big error

Just like any other time - if you do it properly, no update is going to comin'agetchya !

Google update because they want to remove spamming contents to make a good strategy..

What do you guys think about posting articles on EZine (with backlinks)? Is that still worth doing?

The main focus of the Penguin update is to rank down over-optimized sites. Over optimized sites are classified as those who have spammed content, spammed links, low content relevance, low links relevance.

These changes are in line with Google's general aim of making the online world more trustworthy. Businesses are built on trust, and the internet is quite notorious for fake content, fake claims, and the likes.

If you wish your site to survive the Penguin debacle, you must start investing on good content. Make sure all posts and links are relevant to the site. In the past, it was common for backlinkers to just link with any other site so long as they have good qualities for backlinking. However, the challenge now is to create high quality backlinks on sites with high levels of relevance with respect to your website.

In the end, the arduous task of providing high-quality content for your visitors will pay you back not only with higher search rankings, but also with higher traffic conversion rates.

After penguin update we should focus on high and content.Try to choose links from different anchor text.Blog commenting on relevant blogs that based on your niche.Use Press release,Guest posting on relevant site,Try to include contextual links as Google much prefers links that are within the body of content because content is what is ultimately valuable to most Google users.

Make links in high PR related sites and keep your content unique and interesting.

I am sure still the contextual link building methods like Blogging, article publishing, Press releases are working even after Penguin. As far as you get links from related niche content.

I think that after penguin update, relevant and high quality backlinks helps to increase serp. Do mostly relevant forum and blog posting.

Only one suggestion from me
Use variety of anchor text keywords don't stick to one. Also focus on your LSI keywords with main keywords. and do guest posts for best quality link to related niche sites

The same principles that make owned inbound marketing so impactful on today’s search metrics can be deployed on the earned side of inbound marketing. This earned approach represents a peculiar marriage between traditional link building and public relations. The below are 14 steps to deploy an earned inbound marketing campaign that is Penguin-approved.

Well, Its all about the content. If you writing a content with proper way and make the website with shallow structure that is more important to get good traffic on your website.

some of my sites make a little messy when Google Updated their Algorithm,

but just recover, what I did was, web 2.0, forum posting, comments (ACTIVE USER) and a fresh unique contents.

thanks