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	<title>Michael Cheney BlogHelllllp &#8211; I&#8217;m imprisoned in Google&#8217;s secret dungeon&#8230; &#8211; Michael Cheney Blog</title>
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		<title>Helllllp &#8211; I&#8217;m imprisoned in Google&#8217;s secret dungeon&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 12:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[It was 1999. And before you ask &#8211; no I wasn&#8217;t wearing a gimp mask, it wasn&#8217;t *that* kind of dungeon&#8230; This was an underground dungeon the head honchos over at Google don&#8217;t want you to know about. And with good reason. This is where evil, dumb and unfortunate internet marketers end up if they [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640-300x221.png" alt="handcuffs-308897_640" width="300" height="221" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1179" srcset="https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640-300x221.png 300w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640-518x381.png 518w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640-82x60.png 82w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640-131x98.png 131w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640-600x442.png 600w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/handcuffs-308897_640.png 640w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />It was 1999.</p>
<p>And before you ask &#8211; no I wasn&#8217;t wearing a gimp mask, it wasn&#8217;t *that* kind of dungeon&#8230;</p>
<p>This was an underground dungeon the head honchos over at Google don&#8217;t want you to know about.</p>
<p>And with good reason.</p>
<p>This is where evil, dumb and unfortunate internet marketers end up if they break Google&#8217;s hallowed and worshipped &#8220;rules&#8221;.</p>
<p>I fell into the category of &#8220;dumb&#8221; rather than evil.</p>
<p>My website (all about internet marketing) was getting some nice free traffic from Google towers.</p>
<p>So Mr. Genius over here decided it would be a good idea to ramp things up a little and multiply the volume of content on my website by 100 times.</p>
<p>Overnight.</p>
<p>Yeah. Exactly.</p>
<p>Told you I was dumb.</p>
<p>So I got some crappy spinning software and spewed out thousands of regurgitated content pages from articles I&#8217;d written.</p>
<p>Ahhh.</p>
<p>I sat back proudly and admired my work &#8211; excellent.</p>
<p>What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>Sadly, everything.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize Google would see right through my ridonkulous attempts to &#8220;game&#8221; their system and throw me in their underground slammer without the key.</p>
<p>The site was history.</p>
<p>Never to be ranked again.</p>
<p>The lesson?</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be a dick like I was.</p>
<p>There are basically 2 ways to get number 1 on Google in 2015.</p>
<p>Way #1. Set aside several months (and hundreds of bucks) to trawl for backlinks, do back-breaking SEO work and buy expensive software.</p>
<p>Way #2. Get number 1 in just a few minutes without any of the hassle or expense here;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michaelcheney.com/number1-on-google/">http://www.michaelcheney.com/number1-on-google/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>c) Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Please do not try to copy or swipe this because even my lawyers have lawyer</p>
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