Things to avoid in SEO

[TalishHF]

Well ive seen a few thing's recently that have caught my eye as bad seo techniques and they should be avoided at all costs whilst trying to rank in the serp's.

1 Keyword Stuffing
keyword stuffing will not help your website rank in any way shape or form, infact google and most main search engines will frown upon this and it will drop your site down a few notch's. If the keywords on your page are natural then you shouldnt have a problem as they have ways of detecting this. Also i have seen a few sites using the "Users forund this page by searching" in a fraudulant way, adding there own keywords to the terms and removing lesser terms from display.

2 Link Spam
Though the thought of 1000's of backlinks is desirable, buying theese backlinks wont help your site at all. Most of theese links are irellivent and auto-geenerated page's from whois checkers etc; its always better to build relevent links rather than spam it up with cheap and nasty bulk links. Its clearly visiable in the search engines and it wont help vistitors who will just see the result and pass by to the next one along.

3 Illegal /Frowned Upon Content
Though offering you visitors free downloads etc; seems like a good idea to get people rolling in, if the actual owner or a company that represents it stumbles apon the said content they will submit a copyright claim to google and you will penilised and worse you could get a lawsuit too.

4 Content Spam
Allthough it may be a time consuming process, you have to check your site daily for spam content on blogs and forums. Adsense will give you a warning to remove spam content from your pages, it may not be your fault but its your responsibility so you have to keep it in check. Viagra is the usual form of spam, along with foreign languages linking to huge pages of link's but now there is more human looking spam but it is still spam and should be removed as it has no relevence to your site and links back to other illegal pages



I bet you are thinking 4, JUST 4?? theese are the tip's i swear by and know from my own knowladge and expiriance, i wouldnt tell you anything that i dont actually know about or stick to myself. I rank 4th in goolge for a 195 million keyword with my only functional website so i thought 4 would be the magic number.

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[Peter L]

Ok, this is a good start. You have the right idea now. But this is mostly common sense.

[Techie.]

Small spelling mistakes. Other than, good work.

[TalishHF]

Small spelling mistakes. Other than, good work.

Thanks haha, I hadn't had any coffee that morning so I guess I was still asleep.

[Omniscient]

These BH SEO techniques are often used for short term income in mass volume. Any site with longevity and steady income would not use this but there are those who do use them and make hundreds of thousands per year. Which is the reason you see so much of it. It's a shortcut. Some of it's even illegal.

[Techie.]

These BH SEO techniques are often used for short term income in mass volume. Any site with longevity and steady income would not use this but there are those who do use them and make hundreds of thousands per year. Which is the reason you see so much of it. It's a shortcut. Some of it's even illegal.

Illegal?

Do you mind explaining please, Omni?

[Camgaertner]

Thanks for the tips, I'll be sure to avoid doing those.