I have recently returned from another SEO seminar and have yet again heard many horror stories from people who have had their sites banned by Google. It is quite clear when talking to these people why their sites have become banned and to be fair they are also aware of the reasons why. In this article I will write about what I believe are SEO techniques that work.

For me there are a number of important factors to successful SEO. The most important factor is hard work. Most of these people who have had their sites banned were not willing to put all of the necessary hours of hard labour in that is required. They were looking for a quick fix and would use things such as pay per post. I have had a look on the mattcutts blog last night and yet again there is a mention about this pay per plan site and other similar sites. Basically my advice would be to not use these types of sites as it very obvious that these posts have been paid for.

Patience is also very important as per the saying that Rome was not built in a day. I have had a lot of success with my own main website but it took quite a long time for me to achieve high ranking search engine positions. The age of the domain is also very important and therefore this is another reason why patience is required.

Playing by the rules is also essential. I have many people asking me how I managed to achieve such high rankings. I explain about the hard work, patience and playing by the rules strategy and they seem to understand. These people normally start well but normally after a few months start on that rocky path to buying links on blogs, links that are clearly paid for. This again is frowned upon by search engines such as Google, so come on people play by the rules and you will succeed.

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