Building Backlinks in the Wake of Google’s Farmer Update

May 28th, 2011 | Author: admin

Most visitors to this website have obviously seen the lack of new posts and content over the course of the past couple of months. If your wondering what is going on; that perhaps this website has been abandoned, you guessed incorrectly. I also turned the comments option off because I was averaging between 4-500 comments per day! Nobody can keep up with that type of work when you manage in excess of 30 websites so I had to re-group and focus on a manageable way to run this website. In the mean time I have just been very busy building backlinks and monitoring what has been a very long series of algorithm updates by Google. For any of you who are not new to this and know exactly what I am talking about, then you too have been watching and reading about the many horror stories of the Farmer Update that Google made in an attempt to eliminate content farms. Perhaps even your website(s) fell victim to this update?

For what I predict was a minimum of 60-90 days of pandemonium in the search engines results pages, I watched and monitored Google implement various unknown algorithm tweaks and it was a really weird experience to witness. At one point in time the Google Places pages were mixed in with organic search results, despite the fact that they are commonly grouped together, typically at the top of search results. Further, I had several “Places” pages simply evaporate into thin air and I was forced to do some editing to the respective profiles to revive them. One site in particular had to be revived not once, not twice, but three separate times… I was actually beginning to get pissed off at whomever the Google moderator was that kept changing settings back to! Anyhow, I’m not here to babble about Google Places because although they are very helpful in ranking business sites and the such, many of us do not rely on that application for niche sites that do not have a physical address or unique brand name.

Can I undo negative results from the Farmer Update?

The answer to that question is yes. Is it going to be easy? Perhaps, but that depends upon how you implement your backlink campaign(s).

For starters, when you engage in a backlink campaign do you keep track of when and where you attain your backlinks? Do you build them in smaller, moderated groups, or do you plow hundreds of backlinks at your website over the course of a wee or couple of weeks? Here’s a subtle hint of advise. Always record where you attain your links, and do not send hundreds of links to your site too quickly.

A lot on online marketers grew very complacent in their comfort of using article directories, and I would suspect that many of you used article spinners to republish the same article to many article marketing directories? Am I safe to assume this as being an accurate guess of your practices? Well, welcome to the NEW world of Google SERPS and their attempt to eviscerate this type of SEO from their search results. This is no longer going to work with the effectiveness that it used to, especially if the quality of the content was anything less than stellar. Writing and spinning articles is okay, but you cannot write content at a 5th grade reading level and spin it 100 or so times, expecting it to show favorable results. Moreover, in the wake of Google’s Farmer Update I would suspect that submission of this quality will probably either be removed or unapproved altogether. So what do you do now?

Using Effective Article Marketing for Your SEO

Although submitting articles to Hubpages, Ezine Articles, and other directories for your free one-way backlink is still an effective and viable option, keep in mind that when Google finds your duplicate content it will retain the source from the site with the most authority and send the other version(s) straight down the rankings where it will never be of any value. But there is a solution that works. It takes a small investment and a little bit of time to get to know how to implement it correctly. Just look in the upper-left sidebar and try the FREE 5 day trial of AMR.
If you want credible one way backlinks to your site from a source that will not get you spanked by Google, then give it a try. What’s the worst thing that can happen by trying something for FREE? Probably the same thing that happened to me, you’ll fork out the $97 and own this awesome piece of software.