I’ve been researching Google SEO for over 10 years and own over 100 domains and through SEO testing have had at least 20 domains banned/penalized in Google. I expected many of my SEO test sites to be banned or to gain a Google penalty since was testing SEO limits, so have a lot of experience with Google penalties and trying to recover from a Google penalty: both Google automated and manual penalties. Google Penalty for Selling Text Link Ads In 2008 I tried selling text links ads from a recipe/cooking site I own (used one of the popular text link seller sites) and after a lot of technical problems finally got the entire web site added to their text link […]
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Hi David,
Have your site been released now from google penalty? My site couponus.com hit by the same filter, it was been in the filter for 45 days and re-penalized after a 7 days release. I am really losted about how to improve my site and how to escape from the penalty. Could you share some tips?
BlogAds Private Ads an Alternative to AdSense?
Do you have any experience with something like Blogads.com? This is not like Adsense in that you set up the code and the ads appear. Nor is it like the traditional Adsense alternatives that clone this model (for example like Chitika based on a publisher ID), nor an affiliate like Clickbank.
Rather it is selling private ads via a marketplace. I image you can choose to not pass link juice and therefore it is legal in Google’s views as you are not selling links? It would be simply selling ad space which is fair and square in google’s eyes.
I am sure they do not like the competition, but is there any way they could have problems with it?
Do you think it is a good way to monetize a blog as although not as effcient as Adsense the percentage you keep is 70%.
I imagine to integrate into the Stallion theme, I set up an ad widget like you have recommended ( https://stallion-theme.co.uk/kontera-ads-tutorial/#comment-18840 ), something that does not pass link juice but displays the link.
BlogAds Private Ads an Alternative to AdSense?
Monetizing a WordPress Blog While Avoiding a Google Penalty for Selling Links
I’m not familiar with Blogads, though understand what they are offering and considered using a service like them (not got around to it :-)). Have you looked at their ad output (I couldn’t find an actual ad example on their site), does it pass link benefit?
If it’s javascript based or uses nofollow it’s not a Google penalty issue.
Not having access to their code I can’t say for sure how to integrate. If it’s simple javascript code like you get with AdSense then yes the sort of code I used in the comment you linked to added to a text widget should work.
On a similar note you can build custom ads via the Stallion Custom Ads Widget and the Stallion 125px by 125px banner ads widget (you don’t have to keep the ads 125px wide) with both options the Stallion link cloaking is built in, so if you use them to sell ads and don’t want to pass link benefit link cloaking can be used so there’s no risk of a Google penalty for selling links that pass link benefit. Obviously won’t include any timing options for ads running out etc… so completely manual.
David
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Searches related to "keyword" at bottom of SERP
David – Can I contact you directly regarding an issue with Searches related to “keyword(my name)” at bottom of SERP? What is your email?
Thanks,
AJ
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I only provide free support to Stallion Responsive Theme users by email for support related to Stallion Responsive (nothing else, no general SEO advice by email).
The above sounds like a general SEO advice question and so the answer to your question is no, you can’t contact me for “an issue with Searches related to “keyword (my name)” at bottom of SERP?”.
If you are a Stallion Responsive users you’ll have access to my email as it’s on the main Stallion Responsive options page. When I get non Stallion questions by email I either ignore them or explain I only give email support for theme support issues only.
All that being said I sometimes answer general SEO question in the comments since that directly benefits me. The comments here generate post like pages which Google indexes and rank in their own right, so if an SEO question is interesting I might answer it. I’m not a free SEO answers service, so I offer no guarantees I’ll respond: you’ll note lots of comments go unanswered, only so many hours in the day. More interesting an SEO question more likely I’ll respond.
Had you have asked your SEO question in the comment rather than asking for my email address maybe I’d have spent the time answering your SEO question about “Searches related to keyword” rather than write this :-)
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