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SEO 12 Step Program: Rank-Checkers Anonymous
By Julie | May 2, 2007
1. We admitted we were powerless over search engine rankings–that our obsession with Googling ourselves had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to high rankings.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines as we understood Them.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our web sites.
5. Admitted to Google’s reinclusion request form, to ourselves and to our SEO the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have our SEO remove all these defects of web development.
7. Humbly asked Google to forgive our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all web pages we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such web pages wherever possible.
10. Continued to take link inventory and when we reciprocally linked with link farms admitted it and removed said links.
11. Sought through link-baiting and white hat methods to improve our conscious contact with Google, as we understood It, praying only for knowledge of Its will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all web site owners, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
(with apologies to all AA members)
Topics: SEO, advertising, alcohol, content strategy, dumb techniques, google, link building, link-bait, marketing, search results, spam |
