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Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Watsoneology: 1:50am On Apr 16, 2018
Why Google is number 1 and why it's better to work with them rather than against them!


Warning! You Can’t Fool Google.

Almost daily, I see a report about a company or individuals who are trying to fool Google through SEO. When are they going to learn that you just can’t fool Google?

Why would you even want to try it, with when you risk being banned from the biggest search engine in the world? Many people seem to try just because they wonder if it could ever be done. As a general rule of thumb: it can't!


There are some instances in which people think that they have tricked google. They believe that something that they have done has rocketed their site to the top of Google's listings and they truly believe that they have managed to "stick it to the man."

Nine times out of ten when this happens, they either performed an SEO procedure that Google allows or even endorses or they just happened to fill Google's criteria better than other sites in their category without even realizing it.


Once in a while, someone will come up with a way to fool Google. They will enjoy a nice high spot on Google's listings for maybe even several months, but then the end comes for these proud sites.

As soon as Google notices that it has been cheated, these sites are removed from the index; sometimes permanently.


The fact is that these people don’t understand the power that Google has. Anyone with a real interest in making money from the web should consider that getting banned from the search engines effectively removes your site from the web.

They don’t have to let you back in, and they don’t have to give you any right to respond – you’re entirely at their mercy. You don’t want to get in their bad books.

Aside from the fact that Google will remove you from its listings, there is another incentive against trying to fool Google. If you fool Google, you are fooling your clients.


There is no reason to try to lure visitors onto your page expecting to get something and really giving them something else.


This is a poor way to conduct business and more often than not it will chase the customer away for good.

If you want your website to be found in categories that don’t apply to it, try purchasing ads on pages that are listed towards the top of the Google listings in these categories.

You can increase your site reputation in Google’s eyes rather than hurting it by adding another link to your site. This is an excellent form of marketing because it allows you to reach out beyond your market simply by dishing out a few dollars a month.

Some of the most popular methods of trying to fool Google's PageRank system are link farms and link exchanges.


Link farms are basically websites that exist only to get links to specific sites counted by the search engines. Link exchanges are groups of websites that each pay a monthly fee to link to each other – like link farms, only more expensive and dodgy.


In both cases, the websites involved are attempting to climb the ranks of Google's search results through the sheer quantity of links to them –this is known as Google bombing. But it doesn’t always work.

Google knows that cheaters can ruin their search engine for the rest of us. After all, if link farms inflate the rankings of less-useful Websites, then we’ll all start seeing worse search results.

That’s why Google constantly updates PageRank to keep those kinds of sites away. The Page Rank formula that Google implements is mysterious and ever-changing. This is the primary reason that Google cannot be fooled.

It has been found recently that Google is now sending out ‘cloak bots’, disobeying robots.txt to find out whether sites are ‘cloaking’ – serving a different page to search engines than what visitors see. These ‘cloak bots’ are controversial but seem to have some positive effects on the Google’s results.

Unethical methods make it difficult for people who are trying to do SEO the proper way, which is one of the reasons why it needs to be monitored so carefully.

If people stopped trying to find ways to manipulate the system, it would be much easier to keep up with what’s going on.

As you may already know, Google publishes a list of guidelines suggesting legitimate ways to improve a site's ranking, by making it more accessible and better. One of the tips is to make pages for users and not for search engines. You’d do well to listen to their advice.
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Nobody: 5:16am On Apr 16, 2018
Nice one! But still Google is not foolproof, some cheaters also manages to scale through and remain so for pretty long. [url]Questechie.com[/url] got hit in 2014 by Penguin, it took almost 2 years to fully recover! cool

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Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by adesegun121(m): 7:12am On Apr 16, 2018
Ok
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by diego101(m): 7:13am On Apr 16, 2018
Ok
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by telim: 7:13am On Apr 16, 2018
Op keep fooling yourself and noobs. Web masters with good understanding of Black/gray art SEO will always find there way to out rank there competitors on SERP, a lot of shady sites and non shaddy sites are being ranked by violating Google TOS using hundreds/ thousands of targeted PBN setup specifically for dropping there money site links, PBN with a domain name having good DAs will often keep stealing the number one spot on SERP irrespective of if the competitors stick to Google TOS or not.

Also every Google update as never being 100% perfect as both white and black art SEO sites are often blacklisted though sites that use blackhat SEO get blacklisted the most.

So the argument is why waste your time and resources in ranking your site with white art SEO which take a along time only to be blacklisted because of an update when you can easily rank your site in few months using blackhat/ gray art SEO and still get ranked on SERP.

If you do not have 1000s of dollars to spend for settijng up quality PBNs with good DA and top notch contents and understand how to block foot prints just stick to white are SEO.

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Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by wiseone10: 7:13am On Apr 16, 2018
OP I disagree with you. Google is fooled everyday. The expertise required is what changes.

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Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Mopolchi: 7:16am On Apr 16, 2018
People dey fool am
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Ikpewe: 7:16am On Apr 16, 2018
iyam not undastandad it ooo
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by DrToche: 7:17am On Apr 16, 2018
I don't understand this epistle u just wrote
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by MissBorn(f): 7:21am On Apr 16, 2018
Google SEO can be fooled and is fooled everyday by knowledgeable SEO experts!
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by 9aiboard: 7:28am On Apr 16, 2018
You overemphasize this shit, there is no way a simple algorithm and set of codes can't be bypassed.. There are ppl out there doing it.
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Coldfeets: 7:35am On Apr 16, 2018
G is for Google.

G is for God.

So Google is God.

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Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by teemy(m): 7:38am On Apr 16, 2018
with google updates panda and penguin, lots of sites including major directories lost their top rankings in the serps as they have for long been used for duplicate content. if still unsure, ask yourself when last you saw an ezinearticles page on goog

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Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by eightsin(m): 7:42am On Apr 16, 2018
anything man made is not foolproof.
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by teemy(m): 7:43am On Apr 16, 2018
they may seem the in-thing for a while but with just one algo update, they all come crashing down as they've always been under observation by google. ever wondered how YOU found out those blackhat sites in the first place; through google of course!
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Tolzeal(m): 7:52am On Apr 16, 2018
If it's an Algorithm .. It can be Gamed !
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by exlinkleads(f): 7:54am On Apr 16, 2018
you are not smart enough op

Google has been fooled all the time.
webmasters will continue to fool them till the end of time.
stop saying what you don't know.
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by Thebrightest(m): 8:20am On Apr 16, 2018
ok
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by owisdom58: 8:22am On Apr 16, 2018
YOU DIDNOT TELL US THE LEGITIMATE WAY
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by tolajay: 8:27am On Apr 16, 2018
First, your epistle was too long. Guess you were writing for SEO and not humans, just to fill up space.

That said, Google isn't fool-proof. Hundreds of brands have and will continue to do it. You only need the right insight and expertise.

Google is just an ideology, there are alternative ideologies to achieve same goal.
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by olowobaba10: 8:50am On Apr 16, 2018
WHAT IS SEO, WHAT DOES IT DO?
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by akum78: 9:53pm On Apr 16, 2018
... Great
Re: Why You Can't Fool Google SEO by klosety45: 2:27am On Apr 17, 2018
olowobaba10:
WHAT IS SEO, WHAT DOES IT DO?
SEO is use to R. A . P .e Google.

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