Oh No! Am I In Bad Neighbourhood?
Bloggers live in virtual world and faces situation or problems just like people face in real world. We live in neighborhood, some are good neighbors and some are bad. But if you are living in an area which is notorious due to any reason or where all neighbors are known for their bad behavior, you will also considered as bad guy. It’s very simple and logical.
Now put yourself in the shoes of person who is good but living in nitrous area or have bad neighbors. In both situations he will penalize. But why we are discussing good neighbor bad neighbors in blog. Because, a blog also neighborhoods. Bad and good both.
Blogs have generally two types of bad neighborhood. One in which he is living and second to which he has linked his site.
Living in Bad Neighborhood:-
Most of the blogs who are in their initial or intermediary phase use shared hosting service for hosting. Such servers share same IP for all sites hosted on it. Now if some site is performing suspicious SEO technique that site will get banned and there are chances that your site also gets banned due to same shared IP address. Do some little investment and purchase dedicated IP for your website. Dedicated IP would not only give you pace of mind but also speeds up your site as shared IP bears more load. This is another reason why web hosting service provider offer dedicated IP address as separate product. Check how much and which sites are hosted on Same IP as yours.
Linking to Bad Neighborhoods:-
This is very common type of bad neighborhood. Google bans web sites due to black hat SEO practices like copyright infringement, link farming, hidden links, deceptive titles etc. All of these techniques are known as black hat SEO used to illegitimately optimize page rank. Such sites, when caught, are banned by Google.
How to Avoid:-
After discussing the bad neighborhood concept, one thing is clear that don’t link to such sites. But how to know which site in marked as bad neighborhood or banned by Google. It’s very simple. Just type site:abc.com in Google search bar and see the results. If Google is not showing the results, it’s most likely that Google has banned that site. Google has removed all indexed and cached files of the site to penalize him.
Before linking to a site, just check the site by adopting the above described method. Links to all sites which are banned or blocked will cost you reduced Page Rank because Google consider you as the part of same bad neighborhood.
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About the Author:
I am a Banker by Profession and Internet Power User. I love playing computer games, racing games are my faviourate. I started this blog to put all the knowledge and information related to computer Hardware, Software and Internet on web that I have. Blogging is best way to express my thoughts and views.
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