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What not to do while doing SEO?

by Guest4755985  |  3 years ago

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Hi, I'm a newbie to Search Engine Optimization world. I have read enough stuff about "What should I do for better SEO". Can you please let me know "What not to do for better SEO"? Thanks in advance

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  1. Tayyab
    Hi I came through a very handy article. Following is the crux of that article stating "What not to do in SEO". Cloaking - Cloaking is having two separate pages, one optimized for the search engines and a different one optimized for the viewer. Doorway pages - A page specifically designed for search engines to draw traffic and then unethically redirect this traffic to another web site or page. Hidden text - Some webmasters will place hidden keywords on a page and make the font color the same as the background color (for example white text on a white background). This renders the text invisible to the human eye but the search engine spiders can still see it. This results in a higher Page Rank and search engine listing for those keywords. Hidden text is often used on a doorway page. Using hidden text is a sure way to get banned from Google fast! Hidden links - The number of pages that link to one of your pages has a direct effect on how high your page appears in the search results (and that page's PR). As with hiding text, hiding links will also result in a ban or PR penalty. Link farms - A link farm is loosely defined as a page that lists links solely or mainly for the purpose of achieving a high Google PR. Free-For-All links pages are often considered link farms by Google. Be careful who you link to! Realistically, you can't control who links to you, so incoming links will not hurt your site's ranking. But you control directly who you link to so Google will ban or penalize your site for linking to a "bad neighborhood". Spamming - Don't send unsolicited commercial emails (SPAM). Enough said. Selling PR - Blatantly advertising the fact that your high PR site will sell a link to another site in order to boost that site's PR is another big no-no. Selling advertising in the form of a link on your site is perfectly acceptable. Selling a link for the stated or implied purpose of increasing a site's PR is not. Multiple identical sites - In order to increase PR, some webmasters will create and interlink multiple pages all with identical or very similar content. This is not allowed. Multiple domains - Creating multiple domains that redirect to one page is not allowed. Also, creating multiple domains with the same or nearly the same content and then interlinking them is a no-no. If you have multiple sites place unique content on each site. Doing otherwise will result in a ban or penalty. Excessive links - Google recommends having no more than 100 links on any given page. Having more than 100 links won't result in a ban but it can result in a lower PR. Hope this will help you out.

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