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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Are you making these Deadly SEO Mistakes

Are you making these Deadly SEO MistakesEd Zivkovic Contributing Writer
"Black Hat SEO: Web Spamming and Linking to Bad Neighborhoods"

Defines a web spammer as "someone who creates hundreds or thousands of keyword rich pages in order to create the illusion of a themed site with related pages. These sites can be composed of sneaky redirect pages, doorway pages, gateway pages and now the latest craze seems to be auto generated directories. SEO circles call these types of pages "search engine clutter"...spammer places the search engine clutter on a secondary domain and looks for link partners"...the sites..."all link or redirect to a main selling website which does not link back to the spam pages. Usually, all the secondary domains link to each other too. "

The challenge is " to develop the ability to detect these types of pages with the naked eye"..

It is only if you link to web spam or a bad neighborhood that you risk getting penalized. ...bad neighbourhoods..."include Free For All Links pages (FFA s), Link Farms and useless directories designed to do nothing more than create the illusion of a themed web site.

A good guide to follow would be not to link to any site which does not contain useful information or relevant content. More info about bad neighborhoods here: http://www.v7n.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11376 ...

Defines.."Obsessive Compulsive SEO practitioner" as a webmaster who "is always looking for the easier softer way. The delusion is strong. The insanity has got a grip of the obsessive compulsive SEO. In the end, when they get sick and tired of getting banned, they swear off Internet Marketing altogether claiming that everybody in the industry is a rip off artist..."

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