Comments on: How to avoid the Google Bitch slap… http://www.neotrepreneur.com/2008/01/28/how-to-avoid-the-google-bitch-slap/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:38:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: madWAHM http://www.neotrepreneur.com/2008/01/28/how-to-avoid-the-google-bitch-slap/#comment-171 madWAHM Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:10:48 +0000 http://www.neotrepreneur.com/2008/01/28/how-to-avoid-the-google-bitch-slap/#comment-171 I'm a member of Smorty (another paid blog posting site) and they addressed the Google PageRank issue by telling members: 1. Remove all sponsored post tags on each of your posts. Search engines can follow these tags to determine if you are being paid for posts. 2. Remove any other tags like "hire me" and "review me". Any general affiliate banners are fine to keep. I did these things and still took a hit to one of my blogs. Hey, maybe that blog just sucks! :) I’m a member of Smorty (another paid blog posting site) and they addressed the Google PageRank issue by telling members:

1. Remove all sponsored post tags on each of your posts. Search engines can follow these tags to determine if you are being paid for posts.

2. Remove any other tags like “hire me” and “review me”. Any general affiliate banners are fine to keep.

I did these things and still took a hit to one of my blogs. Hey, maybe that blog just sucks! :)

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