What still works after penguin?

Seamy82 I second your post, I thought I had the Google Algorithm sorted, unitl now :-(

Nothing seems to work anymore. Interesting to see if we can get honest responses from people who are getting results. Looking for answers for ages but can't seem to find any.

Everything is working fine except direct mass link spam like blog commenting and profile backlinks but link diversification also works with blog commenting and profile links.

Everything still works? I am using web2.0s article backlinks, guest blogging at the moment. What am I missing? reluctant to use blog commenting, as they're not easy to find and do not want to outsource this. Cannot really use loads of social signals, as my website relates to local services and it would look un-natural.

Keep your keyword density around 1%. Understand. Include LSI ketwords. Link building is what people mess up always.

These are the various tye of links you should make:
Links from directories
edu links
wiki links
press relaeses
Social Bookmark links
web 2.0
Article Submission


Just keep on rotating them evenly. Try to make the process look as natural as possible.

Let me tell y'all that everything you were doing before Penguin still work. Blog networks, commenting, profile links, article directories, press release, web 2.0, they are all still working. But you need to make them look natural by drip feeding them and not 'one blast' thing.

Also, build links to your backlinks using senuke and scrapebox.

Here is a great method that works:

Get links from press release, commenting, article directories, wiki, profile links, web 2.0. Make sure you use unique content on all the web 2.0 and after that, blast the hell out of the web 2.0 you created using senuke and scrapebox.

After that, sign up to a good blog network and start drip feeding articles daily. Keep the numbers consistent everyday.

Do this and you will dominate the serp in no time.

Peace!

Here is a good article and I bookmark it, just found out it for your. And i am sure this way will always work. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...beginners.html

Everything works but don't try anything spammy.

Good original content on your site. Diversified links to main page and internal urls, mix up your anchor text over 10-15 different keywords and other generic words, and include your domain name in the mix. Basically, everything that involves good quality SEO still works if you want sustained results.

What does not work for very long as trying to "trick" your way up the rankings. I am amazed at how hard people will work at trying to take a short-lived shortcut, yet will not put that same effort in doing things the right way.

For me keyword putting so often is working very good.And also connect social sites with you website and everything will be fine.

Blogging on BlogSpot works.

To be clear - quality content does not work in and of itself, you still need links. I've built articles that are the best article existing on a certain subject and left them to gather dust. They never rank by themselves, and if they don't rank, they don't get enough traffic to get enough links to rank.
Most of my stuff did not get hit by penguin, but it seems more difficult to achieve rapid gain since then.

Hi All,

Just received this Penguin update from Brad Callen's Webinar.

Penguin deal is that Google is looking for removal of dead or broken links, so fix that problem first. So use a backlink checker to see if the site backlinks are dead, if so remove them and add new ones.

And make sure that you have backlinks to your business name or "brand" links - i.e. your business name has backlinks for the anchor text for your business name.

Many of the first page Google sites that the webinar covered showed case studies of the page 1 sites that had a nice mix of backlinks, 25% brand name, 25% of exact match, 25% similar backlink phrases, 25% other links (long tail keyword anchor text links) was the best blend of links that made Google the happiest. These sites did not get their ranking dropped but sites that were too heavy for exact match did or were too heavy for high PR links.

Watch where you are linking to and stay away from link farms. Be careful to naturally vary your link anchor names so they look like a normal person made them.

Good luck!

From what I've read so far and what Ive learned from webinars I've attended, continous backlinking is still important and it should be diversified. Also, the anchor text should not always be the keyword you're targeting, it should vary as well.

There's a reason why Penguin's called the web spam update. That's what you should stay away from. Google's updates are said to "make the Internet a better place." The Internet is supposed to be a place to bring people together, so why not focus on that? Socialize. Make use of the information on your website as something that the people can use.

Quality back links from good pr sites is still works after google penguin.

Any time this is the best method to get good keyword ranking and traffic

for great conversions and sales.

Keywords + links still work, been working since 1997.

I think some matters are never change in SEO, such as, domain name, visitors, quality contents and good backlinks. You also should update your site frequently. I had a site which PR was 2, but after penguin update my site's PR falls to N/A within very short period. It happens because I did not update my site, Google thought that this site is valueless. Also recently I have learned that Google takes greater action against blackhat SEO. So, don't buy backlinks and do not build so many backlinks within very short period. Just build up your site's backlinks in good sites and donot spam.

Make link with different type of link. Do not depend on only one type.

Everything in SEO was working and is working as it is post penguin / panda update only thing which is not working is blog networks which have been hit hard in recent panda update except that as long as you maintain link diversity as well as anchor text diversity you shall be safer from penguin and future updates I believe.

I am not agreed to people who says SEO is closed.

Blog commenting still works, just make sure the posts you comment on have relevant content and that they are high PR.

Everything still works as long as you provide quality. Article directories were hit hard yet by submitting quality content to only high authority article directory websites, you may acquire the right amount of traffic. In blog commenting and forum posting, make sure to provide quality and relevant posts to high PR blog and forum sites that are relevant to your niches or keywords.
Avoid keyword stuffing. Following the right keyword density is not enough. You need to make your keywords blend in to your content in a way that they become reader friendly. Follow the webmasters guideline and you won't be a victim of the Penguin's wrath.

Unique and quality content seems to work well. Guest posting and blog commenting to related websites also works.

quality content and web 2.0 link pyramids... ideally with 4 tiers and manually written content on the first tier web 2.0 sites, and don't forget to social bookmark everything! So less quantity but more quality links with a loooooooot of linkjuice flowing to your money site

Hello! Post penguin, everything still works I guess. You just have to find the best and safest way to deal with penguin updates and google. Cause as I see it, everything still works if it's quality and not quantity.

Penguin is all about anchor text diversity, check the serps for the top 10 sites in any worthwhile niche, the target kw in anchor text averages around 10-20% of entire link profile, got more than 30% and you're in trouble, also having 10-30% of no-follow links seems to help as well social signals, in the end diversity, diversity, diversity is where it's at......

Everything works without spamming (diversify anchor text ,diversify domains, backlinks with high PR and alexa ...)

For me, contextual links only still helps, but we should diversify anchor text. On the other hand, comparatively, post-penguin makes SEO guys to work harder than earlier....But same techniques other than SPAMMING is still working,

Everything is working except old back-linking strategy to give massive push to the sites up.

Everything still work, you just need not to over-use a method. Keep doing blog comments but not too many in a day, keep creating forum profile back links but not plenty of them in an hour.
Also try to use many ways to build your back links, try article submitting, video description links, social bookmarking etc. Always post your link on sites with similar niche to yours.

Here are three things you need from your links:
1. Niche relevant content
2. Some page/domain authority coming from the link/site (not crap links)
3. Lots of generic anchors

There are a lot of ways to get these types of links, but I'd say right now microsites, high quality 2.0s, and high PR manual approve blog comments would be your 3 best bets.

paid linking is still working

According to me removing back links from the same domains will work positively and also get back links from the new domains and do SMO.

Hello,
Many people are frustrated out there. But please note that there are no shortcuts to improve a website from penguins hit.
Even with the recommended whitehat SEO and some investment, it still takes time for Google to recognize.

Many techniques are still working, guest blogging, etc (you can look it up in Google)
I believe they share positive tips to do, and I think patience is also needed here

I think every thing works fine for good optimized websites.