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If you do any Black Hat SEO, you already knew that of course…

It’s hard to talk about Google without bringing in some kind of “baby with the bath water” type analogy.

After all, they need to work algorithmically, and that means more often than not, there will be collateral damage.

Let’s look at an example with this blog.

Sometime in March, I wrote a piece on Ebay and the strange stuff you could fine there. It did pretty well on the social networks and gathered several hundred links, some from high PR domains.

Before that, I had scant few incoming links. There were enough to rank me for some choice product titles when it came time to whip out the affiliate marketer in me.
Strangely, the linkfest only very slight improved overall traffic from SEO.

But I still reveled in the fact that I wielded a small but satisfying power. That to rank well for other people’s products. I could give a scathing or rave review, and often, the very next day, it would rank #1 on Google.

Then it all stopped. I couldn’t rank for 6 word phrases pulled out of my wicked imagination. Some kind of evil Google filter had amputated my organic search organ.

After discussing the matter with a couple SEO Pirates, the most prevalent consensus was that a sudden influx of backlinks followed by my less than illustrious link building efforts had caused Google to clamp me with the web chastity belt.

I would see no action for months to come…

And then, just before Google announced their new policy of cracking down on reciprocal linking hard, something changed.

I came across buzz marketer Dean Hunt who had been featured by our favorite reformed porn webmaster Woody Maxim on his blog.

It didn’t take much prodding to get me on the “no to pagerank, yes to life” bandwagon. This simple yet contagious meme landed me approximately 50 decent backlinks.

Of course I didn’t think much of it, nor did I concern myself with our friends at the web apartheid. These were all part of a juicy link circle jerk, as RECIPROCAL as you can get. Practically a link farm.

But lo and behold, it was less than 4 days later and comments started appearing on old posts. Affiliate sales started to be made on pages I had forgotten months ago. New articles like this Pay Per Click Spy Tool review started planting the flag as king of the mountain once again…

The undeserved filter had undeservedly been lifted.

Isn’t it ironic that a penalty given for a bogus reason would suddenly be felled by taking an action that supposedly breaches the almighty WebMaster Guidelines?

Ah Google. Truly, with thee, the fun never doth end.