Why Google Penalized My Blog?

22/01/2013 By 42 Comments

I have spent one awesome year in blogging and in this duration I have explored many things.

Blogging is all about doing experiments and seeing the results. Sometimes these experiments give us positive results and sometime negative too. But we should not quit the process after seeing defeats, because nothing in this world comes in ideal conditions.

Getting defeats are also a part of success.

Every bloggers have almost same story, that we all entered in blogging with almost zero knowledge of SEO, writing, networking and many other blogging things. But good thing is we learned the things by following the process and results are in front of us.

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This is the story if my starting days of blogging but I thought its worth to share.

So stay with me to learn something which can help you to take care in your blogging career.

You must be one of the blogger who keep reading other blogs to learn the things and implement strategies. This stage comes in life of every blogger when he/she start looking on other blogs and read what other people are doing.

So during the starting days of blogging one lady (she is from California) asked me, “are you making backlinks for your blog?”

For me this was a new term and I was like whaaaaatttttt??

Then I started searching on Google (A good friends of mine, and your too icon wink Why Google Penalized My Blog? ) about backlinks building strategies. And found one thing very common and that was “Commenting on other blogs“.

I started commenting here and there and started building backlinks.

Then one day I stumbled across Fiverr

I saw that people were selling gigs to make huge backlinks.

And What?

I bought 2 gigs building 1000+ backlinks (biggest mistake in my blogging career).

At that time I didn’t knew the quality of comments so I just concentrated on QUANTITY.

Those backlinks were so worse that after 20-25 days I started seeing big drop in my traffic. The worst thing was I could not do anything with that backlinks.

So at the end they made huge negative impact on my blog.

Then I came to know about EDU Backlinks

One statement on a blog attracted me to make edu backlinks, and that was

1 EDU backlink – 100 .com backlinks

Who the hell in this world would not like to make the backlinks which is worth 100 simple backlinks?

Then the next mission was to make EDU backlinks so I started looking on the forums and other websites to make backlinks.

I commented on edu articles where 2000+ comments were always there.

This was again the biggest mistake and no one was there to correct me. I was putting my efforts to make edu backlinks and they are were so much low quality (most of them were spammy) that my blog again got affected by Panda/Penguin updates.

These were the mistakes I did in building backlinks.

Here are some other mistakes I did.

I approved many automated comments on my blog (I wanted more comments on my posts) that those all were spammy.

Now question comes how to know that comments are spammy?

Read : A Huge List Of Spam Comments which Looks Genuine

Final Words !!

I shared my story with you so that you can avoid these wrong methods to save your blog. Here are some key points -

  • Never make too much backlinks.
  • If you are building edu backlinks then see the quality first.
  • Don’t use Fiverr for huge backlinks
  • Check the comments on your blog carefully and then approve them.

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  1. Gautam says:
    22/01/2013 at 12:34 PM

    AM Happpy T Say That I am Safe Because i have Senior Bloggers Like you Too Guide… Thanks for Your Guidance….
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  2. Dipak says:
    22/01/2013 at 12:52 PM

    Impressive post, very good guideline for fresher or blogger, who don’t know regarding back-links and Google panda algorithmic.

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  3. ansh says:
    22/01/2013 at 1:03 PM

    But everyody does link building… i don’t agree that only link building could be the reason for panda penalty on your blog. there must be something else that u need to find too.
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    • Kulwant Nagi says:
      22/01/2013 at 1:26 PM

      Ansh, link building is never bad. Because this is the one of the best and easiest method to make backlinks.
      As I mentioned in the article that I bought 1000+ comments which were made instantly so they made negative impact.

      And I said in the article “Huge Comments” not “Simple Comments”.

      Comments in good frequency will always help you to get quality backlinks.

      Hope you got the point now.
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  4. Rohan Advani says:
    22/01/2013 at 1:13 PM

    Hey Kulwant came on to your blog from comluv blog. Great advice you have given up there! In 2013 would blog commenting work as well as it did in 2012? Any inputs?
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  5. Olawale Daniel says:
    22/01/2013 at 3:09 PM

    So helpful information Kulwant,

    I almost fell into this same kind of trap few years ago when I got some bad backlinks offer but I thank God I didn’t made the wrong move then.
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  6. Khaja moin says:
    22/01/2013 at 3:13 PM

    Yes getting lots of links at a time can definitely affect SERPs, but I think it`s not Panda it might be Penguin?
    Anyway, thanks for sharing this info, it can be helpful for other bloggers.

    ~@Khajamoin1
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  7. Shiv@android says:
    22/01/2013 at 3:15 PM

    Thanks for the information. I am also used SEO but never focus on this . Now I’ll see this again!
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  8. Zafar iqbal says:
    22/01/2013 at 3:16 PM

    Kulwant as you said in the article that doing things massively can easily be traced so we need to be very careful when building backlinks and commenting. I hope that soon your blog will back on track.
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  9. Mohd Aktar says:
    22/01/2013 at 4:08 PM

    This is probably over optimization. Yes again quality is more important than quantity. Thanks Kulwant Nagi for sharing important information.
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  10. abdelrhman says:
    22/01/2013 at 7:52 PM

    Really Really helpful article specially for me .. but i want to ask you how i can check the quality of edu backlinks to make good quality backlinks to my website i really got all useful from reading this amazing article … Big Thanks for sharing :)
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  11. mohit says:
    22/01/2013 at 11:51 PM

    Link Building,can cause that much can’t believe seriously,Every one is making link by commenting and by doing Guest Posting.I think the gigs you purchase is what that caused you too much.
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  12. sunil says:
    23/01/2013 at 11:06 AM

    Oh bro i also allow many spam comments on my blog.Now what to do no.Please tell me briefly because my PR is 3 and i don’t want to loose it.thanx
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  13. Raviraj says:
    23/01/2013 at 11:56 AM

    First I would like to thank you for an awesome article. Even I have read something like this “1 EDU backlinks – 100 .com backlinks” Even I am trying to get some edu links but all are spammed . Thanks for letting us know the mistakes of yours, So that we can take care of the same.
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  14. WPStuffs says:
    23/01/2013 at 4:17 PM

    Thanks Kulwant you showed me Dont’s of Link Building.Yeah it is really hard to get .edu backlinks but a quality content can be useful to get shared on such websites.

    As Google webspam team head Matt Cutts explains…just focus on content and use webmaster tools to monitor your progress…simple as that
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  15. Main Uddin says:
    24/01/2013 at 12:35 AM

    Nothing to say you brother , I have already stopped commenting on others blog except a few those are closely known to me . On the other hand I never use paid service for backlinks but I use paid service for social media publicize (twitter, Facebook, linkedin etc). However thanks for your article.
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  16. Darmawan Saputra says:
    24/01/2013 at 8:58 AM

    Hi Kulwant ..
    Great Post Brother!

    how an easy way to find edu backlinks? and whether all edu backlinks high quality?
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  17. Ratnesh says:
    26/01/2013 at 11:44 AM

    Hi Kulwant i had also done some same mistakes shown above but your post taught me a lesson Thank you :) ..

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  18. Mukesh Dutta says:
    27/01/2013 at 11:39 AM

    The bottom line is that bloggers should not be in a hurry in building backlinks. Moreover, care should be taken if the backlink they are getting is genuine and healthy!
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  19. Warren says:
    10/02/2013 at 7:56 PM

    Thanks bro really, this post saved me. Last year i built over 100 backlinks for my site yet my rank fell tremendously, and now i really know WHY!!! Generating quality content seems to be the most powerful weapon in our blogging career, WOW, thanks really ;)
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  20. Find me says:
    02/03/2013 at 12:16 PM

    Buying auto approval backinks harm your website. We must follow the new seo rules. Anchor text diversion is most important in SEO now.
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  21. Jithin says:
    17/03/2013 at 4:16 PM

    thank you for such an informative and inspiring post. as a fresh blogger your post help me to keep a better track in future. once again thank you for your valuable guidance
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  22. akshat goel says:
    31/03/2013 at 10:30 PM

    Nice article but wondering what is EDU backlink? Even google doesn’t have anything on it.

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