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		<title>The Google Slap:  How A Company Made Me Cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope you appreciate my honesty when I tell you that once upon a time an actual company made me cry.  What company was it?  Well, it was Google, and the reason why is because I became a Google Slap victim.  Luckily, I learned the error of my ways and I have written an entire [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope you appreciate my honesty when I tell you that once upon a time an actual company made me cry.  What company was it?  Well, it was Google, and the reason why is because I became a Google Slap victim.  Luckily, I learned the error of my ways and I have written an entire book teaching people about the Google Slap and how to avoid it.  I am giving this book away today for free!  Download this book now&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf">http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf</a></p>
<p>O.K., so to finish my story on how a company made me cry, you&#8217;ll need to know that I got slapped because of a brand new website that I launched.  I learned that in order to truly increase sales that you need to create your home page in sales letter format.  As a result, my new website ended up being only two pages:  a sales letter and an order page.  Google does not find a 2 page website relevant!</p>
<p>Now, I probably wouldn&#8217;t have cried if this 2 page website along with the product didn&#8217;t take me about 4 months to create.  You see, I was selling on this site my very first eBook, and I wanted to make sure that it was the best info available to my niche market.  I am proud to say that I succeeded!  After &#8220;reversing&#8221; the Google Slap, this eBook went on to become the most popular in my market niche.  How did I reverse the Google Slap?  Well, I tell you how I did it step-by-step in the free eBook.  Make sure to download this eBook today and enjoy!</p>
<p>Daniel Pereira</p>
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		<title>The Google Slap:  Exactly How To Get Your AdWords Account Back To Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you’ve been slapped by Google?  Maybe you went a day or two being able to pay 20 or 30 cents per click, but now Google wants $1, $2, $5, or $10 for those same clicks?  Well, back in the day the same thing happened to me.  Luckily, I know exactly how to fix things, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">So, you’ve been slapped by Google?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Maybe you went a day or two being able to pay 20 or 30 cents per click, but now Google wants $1, $2, $5, or $10 for those same clicks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Well, back in the day the same thing happened to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Luckily, I know exactly how to fix things, and I want to teach you how to do it for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have written an entire 69 page eBook on how to fix the Google Slap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is called “How To Reverse The Google Slap For Free Google Traffic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You can download it at the link below and then I’ll share more tips:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://wwwthefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf"><span style="color: #0000cc;">http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf</span></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The first thing you will want to know about getting your AdWords account back to normal is that it is going to take a little bit of work to do things right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have heard of people trying everything to try and fix a Google Slap, and the one thing that works is to do what Google wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What does Google want?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Google wants better content on your site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>There are four types of sites that are normally slapped by Google, and they all usually have zero real content:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1 page sales letter websites </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Squeeze page (or capture page) style websites</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Websites implementing what is called “Adsense Arbitrage” </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Affiliate style websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Now, Google isn’t going to slap you just because you have one of these types of sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have a number of sites in sales letter format, but I still include great content on those sites in order to make my visitors happy and avoid any slaps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The number one easiest way to do this would be to grow a blog on your site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For example, the home page for this website (<a href="http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/">http://www.TheFreeTrafficFormula.com</a>) is a sales letter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If I only had this page as my site, Google would likely slap me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But, I also have this blog that you are currently viewing which has tons of pages of valuable content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>We kind of go to the extreme and create a number of different posts for this site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You don’t necessarily need to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You can probably set up a blog on your site and include maybe 10 or 20 relevant blog posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This will likely undo your slap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It may take a few weeks, but it will be a fix that stays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The number one most important thing you must do to fix your slap will be to add this content that we are referring to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>There are a few other details that I cover in the free eBook, and I even teach you in that book how you can start to get free traffic from Google!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Enjoy!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Daniel Pereira</span></p>
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		<title>My Google Slap Horror Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post tells the world how I got slapped by Google.  Luckily, I was able to fight through things and fix them!  This is a longer blog post than usual because this post represents a few pages out of my free eBook “How To Reverse The Google Slap For Free Google Traffic.”  You can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This blog post tells the world how I got slapped by Google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Luckily, I was able to fight through things and fix them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This is a longer blog post than usual because this post represents a few pages out of my free eBook “How To Reverse The Google Slap For Free Google Traffic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You can download this eBook for free right now:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf">http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Here is my Google Slap story!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hello, it’s me Daniel Pereira, your fellow internet marketer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was very frustrated with Google until I discovered a few simple tactics that started giving me free Google traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You see, I had been enjoying internet marketing as a career for a while when I had first heard of the “Google Slap,” and I had also become very familiar with Pay Per Click advertising, in fact, almost 100% of my traffic came from paid search listings through Google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I didn’t pay too much attention to this concept of a “Slap,” and the main reason for this was because I <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knew</em> that I hadn’t been slapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I also <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knew</em> that it would probably never happen to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I thought to myself: “Why would Google slap me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I only advertise for keywords relative to my site’s content.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, you better believe that I got slapped by Google like many internet marketers, and it turns out that the thoughts to myself were very, very wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Google <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</em> decide to include me in their slap, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I Had To Have It!</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My story of how I got severely slapped by Google starts when I was just a kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was the kid in the neighborhood that would run around to all of the neighbor’s houses asking for yard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You see, I had a dream of owning my own Nintendo Entertainment System, and my parents wouldn’t fork out the $100 in order to buy it for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Naturally, I had to employ all ways possible in order to earn my NES, that’s just the type of person I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I had to achieve my goals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Of course, after I achieved my goal of obtaining a NES, I had to earn more money and create new goals in order to purchase the $30 and $40 games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As you can see, my ambitions for creating ways to earn money and for owning my own businesses started as a kid, and those ambitions eventually found their way on the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For years I had only used the internet to learn information, and I was constantly growing my offline businesses without much consideration for the money making opportunities found across the web.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Eventually, I started a few retail websites on the web that have been fairly successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>After learning and growing those businesses for a few years, I decided I wanted to give the selling of information across the web a try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So, I WORKED FOREVER on my first eBook. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, I realize that this book is targeted towards my fellow internet marketers, and I kind of hesitate when I consider revealing the topic of my first eBook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>After some consideration, I determined that it would be O.K. to share with you what was the topic of my first eBook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Besides, everyone has to start somewhere right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You Wrote About What?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">O.K., as embarrassing as it sounds to me, you may not think it’s that bad:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>My first eBook was actually an eBook on grocery savings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You see, I was part of a network marketing company (which pretty much flopped) that taught people multiple ways to save money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When people used our systems, it was saving them upwards of $600 per month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It really wasn’t a bad system, but the company failed for a number of reasons which I won’t get in to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Also, I thought that creating this eBook would turn out to be a great lead generation system, and the truth of the matter is that it <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</em> a great lead generation system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">O.K., when I finally had everything in place, ready to launch this website, I naturally went to Google AdWords in order to set up yet another campaign for my online advertising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was so ecstatic, pumped, and excited to launch my website!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was ready to generate massive amounts of leads for my company through people who would hand me money in order to become my prospect!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is honestly one of the best money making systems that I have learned of as a networker and internet marketer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Day One:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The day I launched my site was a huge relief for both myself and my wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I even made my very first sale of my <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</em> digital product on that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I gladly paid Google for the 264 visitors that visited my site and started to grow my double-opt-in list of fresh leads.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Day Two:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The party ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>After getting 61 visitors to my site that day, I had become victimized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was now a “Google Slap Victim.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I couldn’t believe that Google wanted $1.00, $2.00, $5.00, and $10.00 for the same clicks that I had received the previous day at only 15, 20, and 25 cents per click!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was so angry and frustrated that I cried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>(no, really, I really cried)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">After receiving some comfort from my wife, I decided that I needed to try my luck with MSN and Yahoo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They gladly accepted my money, but I didn’t receive nearly the same amount of visitors that I had received from Google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Basically, my business was cut in half the day after I launched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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		<title>Google Slap:  3 Different Reactions To The Google Slap and How To Avoid It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s my free 69 page eBook:  “How To Reverse The Google Slap For Free Google Traffic”
http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf  
just right click and “save target as” in order to save this book to your computer…
I did a bit of research in order to discover the different ways that people were affected by the Google Slap.  A lot of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Here’s my free 69 page eBook:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“How To Reverse The Google Slap For Free Google Traffic”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf">http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">just right click and “save target as” in order to save this book to your computer…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I did a bit of research in order to discover the different ways that people were affected by the Google Slap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>A lot of this research was reading a number of different comments posted by people on blogs and forums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The following 3 posts describe the different slap responses that people had experienced by this Google Slap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>These posts where written by different people across the web, and posts just like these ones can be found in numbers with a little bit of research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The surprising thing is that many people are very o.k. with this slap!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Here are the 3 posts:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">#1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“I advertise my business through Google, and my website sales have stayed the same, and my costs have gone down.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Whatever they did worked for me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">THANKS ! Google!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">#2</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Apparently, Google thinks that NONE of my keywords are relevant and now I need to pay $5 and $10 per click.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">#3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Why does anyone pay for advertising with Google? If you know anything about SEO and work at it a bit, you get great placement for free. My web company comes up on the first page for all the terms I target and I&#8217;ve never paid Google a dime. I even get Google analytics for free. Seems to me you guys are wasting a whole lot of money.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What different reactions!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You’ve got 3 different groups of people here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>One group tells you that their costs actually went down, the second group’s cost skyrocketed (that was my group), and you have a third group of people wondering why people are spending so much money on AdWords when Google will advertise your business for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How can we have such different reactions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Some people’s costs actually went down? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is this possible?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Well, it was possible for your AdWords costs to go down when this slap occurred because Google was not only penalizing sites with irrelevant content, but they were also awarding sites that were advertising for keyword phrases that were already extremely relevant for their site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This fact made it so that people couldn’t say that one day Google woke up and decided to raise everyone’s costs because they could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They lowered some people’s costs in order to prove that they were simply rewarding or penalizing people that were or were not following the guidelines written by Google for their AdWords program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the free eBook that I provide, you can take an look and we analyze the reactions to this slap in further detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Enjoy!</span></p>
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		<title>How To Fix The Google Slap:  For Free!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O.K., so this whole Google Slap phenomenon has turned into a big ticket problem for internet advertisers across the web.  The great news is that there are easy ways to fix this slap, but other internet marketers want you to believe that there are complex and difficult ways that you need to implement in order [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">O.K., so this whole Google Slap phenomenon has turned into a big ticket problem for internet advertisers across the web. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great news is that there are easy ways to fix this slap, but other internet marketers want you to believe that there are complex and difficult ways that you need to implement in order to fix things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have personally seen products selling for $197 and $500 that teach you how to “fix” the Google slap and get on good terms once again with Google, but Dan Dimit and I, the authors of “The Free Traffic Formula” wanted to share this information with you today through a free eBook without charging you hundreds of dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This is a 69 page guide that I have put together for you for free!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf">http://www.thefreetrafficformula.com/ReverseGoogleSlap.pdf</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Now, I must admit that you don’t really need all 69 pages of this eBook in order to understand how to fix the Google Slap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But, you might want to pick it up anyway because I am also going to teach you how to get free traffic through Google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You see, it is kind of odd, but when people fix the Google slap, they better their relationship with Google to the point where they will actually start getting Google traffic for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Why is this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Well, the main way you are going to fix any Google slap is by adding relevant content to your site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If you start to add a good amount of relevant content to your site, Google will likely undo any slap and then start actually indexing and ranking your content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So, let’s reverse that Google Slap to the point where Google starts GIVING US traffic for free!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Daniel Pereira</span></p>
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