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Stay Away From Black Hat SEO



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f you are a serious online      search engines discover it, they  
entrepreneur you probably       will seriously penalize it. Using 
have a website and want to      tricks to fool the search engines 
see it at the top of the search       is called black hat SEO – and if  
engine results. You know that SEO     you want to have success in the   
– search engine optimization – is     long-term and promote a serious   
what it takes to see your dream       online business you should stay   
come true, so you decide to hire      away from black hat SEO           
a company. You browse the web and     techniques. In short, here is     
read: “top 10 position                what you should avoid:            
guaranteed”. That’s exactly what                                        
you’ve been dreaming for, that’s      Stuffing your pages with          
exactly what you should not buy!      keywords. Don’t stuff your web    
                                      pages with keywords or text of    
No one, but no one could ever         the same background color. Guess  
possibly guarantee you a top ten      what? Search engines can detect   
position in the search engines.       that and the result will be       
There are no secret SEO               catastrophic for the website. For 
techniques; no magic tools that       example getting banned out of     
can make your site reach the top      Google.                           
over night. There are, however,                                         
some tricks. Many so-called SEO       Invisible text. That’s about the  
firms still use them, to make         same with keyword stuffing. Even  
money fast. But their techniques      though the invisible is not       
will only hurt your site. Let’s       keyword rich, it will still be    
say your site will, indeed,           considered “spammy” by the search 
appear in the top of the search       engines. What’s the use of        
results for a while. With a           invisible text anyway?            
little bit of luck it will even                                         
stay there longer. But once the       Doorway pages. Don’t use them.    



Doorway pages are “fake” pages,       unethical by the search engines   
customized for a particular           could damage your site. Many of   
keyword or phrases and programmed     these techniques might work in    
to be seen solely by the search       the short-term but, unless you    
engine spiders and not by             want your site flagged or banned, 
visitors. This is bad SEO. All        do avoid them. On the other hand, 
the philosophy behind search          black hat SEO raises questions    
engine optimization is related to     when it comes to the general      
improving user experience.            credibility of your online        
Building web pages no one will        business and website.             
ever see is not an unethical                                            
approach to SEO. Google, and all      Instead of going for black hat    
the other search engines, have        SEO, fix your site and optimize   
strict policies against doorway       each page. When you do it, don’t  
pages.                                think solely about the search     
                                      engines. This should be your      
Linking farms. Again Google:          second thought. Your main concern 
Google does not like artificial       should be whether the visitors    
linking (link farms and link          find the site useful or not.      
stuffing). Linking to spam sites      Bottom line: optimize your        
may get your site penalized.          website for the users and the     
                                      search engines, using ethical     
In conclusion, using any              tools.                            
techniques considered spammy and      

                              






About the Author:

Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of HighPowerSites and many other web projects. HighPowerSites is the easiest do-it-yourself website builder on the web. No programming or design skill required. Get your own website online in just 5 minutes with http://HighPowerSites.com at: http://www.highpowersites.com


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