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SEO Tips Day 13 – 3 Crucial things you should avoid in SEO

Call it black hat or grey hat, but these sure are forbidden things when it comes to SEO. If you do it, the heaven will fall on you and the Google gods will curse you for your deeds.

So what are they ? (I know you know this better than me, but remember..this is all basics for the beginners, so if you know more, feel free to add.)

1.  Hidden Text

Never ever hide text in your code. Either with CSS or otherwise. Its bad karma and even though it might look tempting, its fatal. I find it interesting that there are websites with elaborate tutorials still on this.

2.  Cloaking

Dangerous stuff. Basically it means showing two different content to search engines and actual visitors. But since its “discovery” webmasters have devised various ways to cloak and the ways are numerous (and complicated.)

But one thing is intriguing – why put your time and energy into such complicated things, when you can do it the genuine way with half the effort ?

3.  Buying sales/purchases

I bet everyone knew this. Google doesn’t like it because it kind of “affects” their algorithm in a manipulative way and it hinders the right for the common man to know things fairly on search engines while searching for information.

So buy or sell – Ah ..Ah.. No says Google.

 

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  2. Arun Basil LalNo Gravatar

    IMO commenting on other blogs with keywords instead of real names is a bad thing. It might be good SEO wise, but a comment is much more than a back link, rt?

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    I completely agree Arun

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  3. Senthil RameshNo Gravatar

    Never ever scrap others content, Write your own and also you should check for any broken or spammy links in your site in a regular time period.

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  4. crazy bloggerNo Gravatar

    Good tips dude.

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  5. SEO Wanna BeNo Gravatar

    Hi your post is amazing, It’s incredible, I learned a lot about SEO and Man, this thing’s getting better and better as I learn more about internet marketing. Also as part of my ongoing mission to find the absolute best tools to make money, this is without a doubt at the top of my list. Everything happened so fast!

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  6. SomanathanNo Gravatar

    If i have drop down box in my site, will google consider this one as a hidden text or not?

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    NikhilNo Gravatar Replied:

    No,

    Google will not consider it as hidden links, as google shows such dropdowns in the text only version of there cache.

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  7. Dynamic QuestNo Gravatar

    Good advice on everything here.

    I would add this about hidden text, If you have a custom website, with a powerful custom search feature built in, you may want to use an include or other method to display this feature.

    A spider may read every value in your search drop down boxes, which would then increase your word count and lower your keyword density. For example, if you have a drop down for country, with every nation in the world as a value, you may want to go about displaying that on your page a different way to avoid saturating your good on page content,

    Content is king

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  8. RaviNo Gravatar

    Hi Mani,

    Could you a clarify a doubt please? If some links to my page with a short url like bit.ly will the pagerank be passed?

    Thanks,

    ravi

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Nope.

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    Thanks for the valuable information

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  11. PhaolooNo Gravatar

    Nice checklist! My previous blog has badly got a penalty from Google for hidden text. I didn’t tend to cloak, I just hide the text then show it as a popup menu when readers hover the mouse.

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  12. MeriNo Gravatar

    Good tips..
    What’s also important when it come to SEO is that Google ‘loves’ links that are relevant to your page and that’s why the google ‘gurus’ will give bad results if you increase your linkbait overnight… it’s quite likely that you have acquired those by not-so-legitmate means (purchasing that is). You might be interested in our SEO management tool at http://www.analyticsseo.com that let’s you piggyback off your competitor’s link building activity…and it’s legal :-)

    cheers.

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  13. James R.No Gravatar

    Very good information here. The bit about the search box drop down menus diluting your keywords was sort of frightening… Can anyone elaborate a bit more on this? How would one go about setting up a search function that doesn’t have this flaw?

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