{"id":43,"date":"2009-01-04T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:52:13","slug":"bmw-website-got-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/bmw-website-got-banned","title":{"rendered":"Bmw website got banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BMW got banned for Blackhat SEO<\/strong> &#8211; This topic is all over the internet blogs and forums.<\/p>\n<p>The site in question is Bmw.de and NOT Bmw.com.<\/p>\n<p>What can you learn from this.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of things:<\/p>\n<p>1.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s for everyone<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> is not just punishing the small sites or blogs but even the biggies like BMW (they had a PageRank of 7). They have made things clear. If you break the webmaster guidelines &#8211; YOU WILL BE PUNISHED &#8211; No matter what! &#8211; Does not matter who or what you are. Google just wants to keep building a better search engine and anyone who is breaking their guidelines will be punished.<\/p>\n<p>2.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What not to do<\/span>: Do not use methods of doorway pages\/cloaking, JavaScript redirects and all those things that are against the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/essentials\">google webmaster guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Do not give full control to a SEO company<\/span>: If your site is being maintained by a webmaster or a third party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/seo\">SEO<\/a> company, make sure you do not give full control or at least make sure that proper techniques\/tactics are being followed and that no guideline is broken or illegal spamming techniques used (Read article \u201cstay away from Fake SEO companies\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\n<strong>Ashish Thakkar<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW got banned for Blackhat SEO &#8211; This topic is all over the internet blogs and forums. The site in question is Bmw.de and NOT Bmw.com. What can you learn from this. Plenty of things: 1.It\u2019s for everyone: Google is not just punishing the small sites or blogs but even the biggies like BMW (they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}