TommyCarey
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Over the years I've had plenty of websites and I have had a few get a nice little penalty from Google because I went a little too hard in the link building department lol. Now some of these websites I got the penalty for randomly and others I did on purpose. Now you're thinking "Why the Hell would you get a penalty on purpose?" well it's because I wanted to do a lot of testing in order to see how hard I could push my link building and also to see what types of links get the penalty quicker vs links that will rarely bring in a penalty 
Always be testing!
The penalties can be anywhere from a slap on the wrist to a full blown blacklist. I've gotten blacklisted only once, and it was pretty difficult to do. So if you get your website blacklisted then you've been doing something very naughty and you're probably the person who talks bad about SEO when it happens lol. But if you're the person who got a slap on the wrist, it's likely you didn't realize you were doing something you shouldn't be *cough* link wheels *cough*
Getting black listed is pretty much a death sentence for your website. You should pretty much buy a new domain, hosting and set up a new website because you'll never be found in the search engine that hates you. If you have a penalty you can usually come back from this downfall, but it takes some time and effort. If you don't know how to figure out what went wrong, I would highly suggest contacting a good SEO company, or look for someone here on Seocheckout who helps with penalties, and see if they know what went wrong. Write down a list of things that you did prior to getting the penalty and that will streamline the process and quicken everything for the person who is doing the research to figure out exactly what happened. Even if you give them loads of info, they might not be able to figure it out since they don't work for Google, Yahoo! and/or Bing. But usually just getting a list of what you did will give the person a good idea of what went wrong and what needs to be fixed
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Hahaha.
No, I have not pushed my linking building too far, and never would. Everyone knows, at some point, at some time, when you least expect it, Google will give you a swift kick in the a$$ and they can do it over and over again until you're basically banned from results. LOL.
It's basically uncontrollable, and not much you can about it, only to not spam your links. I don't spam my links, thankfully and haven't received a swift kick in my a$$ and don't want to either. Please Google be nice to me. :D Hahaha.
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Of course, i think everyone at some point got penalized. It was a time when everything was allowed (link wheels, form profile links, spamming forums with a lot of black hat software, directories, etc) and everyone was pushing the limits without any remorse and the benefits were top positions for shady websites.
I had my guinea pigs website sand boxed because I did all the above to see how much i can get from it.
In the first week i jumped from page 20 to page 2 for a certain keyword. I was amazed because the traffic was improving, I was getting more hits and more clicks on my
Adsense ads that I ever got combined. Well it lasted for week I believe and then I was sent somewhere around page 40 and i got stuck there.
To be honest I didn't even tried to get it back because I had a feeling that I had a really nice label on my forehead as a spammer.
Test, destroy and start fresh. That's my motto. Link wheels are good for the soul. lol. Of course, i think everyone at some point got penalized. It was a time when everything was allowed (link wheels, form profile links, spamming forums with a lot of black hat software, directories, etc) and everyone was pushing the limits without any remorse and the benefits were top positions for shady websites. I had my guinea pigs website sand boxed because I did all the above to see how much i can get from it. In the first week i jumped from page 20 to page 2 for a certain keyword. I was amazed because the traffic was improving, I was getting more hits and more clicks on my Adsense ads that I ever got combined. Well it lasted for week I believe and then I was sent somewhere around page 40 and i got stuck there. To be honest I didn't even tried to get it back because I had a feeling that I had a really nice label on my forehead as a spammer. Test, destroy and start fresh. That's my motto.
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