Spamming,

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Search Engine is getting smart by the day. Over a period of instant Search Engines evolve from "Ignoring" spamming to a point where they currently 'penalize' websites for using spam methods. Following are the famous Search engine spam techniques you should shun.

1. Hidden text:

Hidden text is using identical color text on pages as the background color. In order to acquire a superior keyword density, webmasters occasionally add a set of keywords as hidden text since they are not visible to the human onlooker but can be examine by the search engine web crawlers in the source code of the particular page. Most search engines can now notice which pages use such technique and disregard or forbid such sites.

2. Doorway pages:

A doorway page is a web page intended for search engines so as to rank fine for precise keyword phrases as well as redirect a user to a dissimilar page on visit. This is known as "switch & bait" method. These pages frequently rely on recurrence of the keyword phrase, and attempt to "trick" search engines into ranking them fine. Most search engines can now notice techniques such as "Meta Refresh" and punish such sites. If you have used doorway pages on your running website and it is not penalized, you stand a good possibility to come out clean by removing these pages instantly.

3. Doorway domains / multiple domains with similar content:

This method uses URL redirection meant to show another web address for the similar web page or several domains shows same content. In a typical case, the user type in a web address as www.new-blue-widget.com but the URL is redirect to www.widget.com. Alternately, these two websites show the same content that one or other may rank very high in search engine result pages (SERP). Most of the occasions these domains are register by the similar party. A lot of people also use 'disposable' domain name in transfer out email spam so as to defend their main domains. Search engines can simply spot these techniques.

4. Duplicate content:

Many site owners attempt to enhance their content base by making multiple pages of the similar content either on the identical site or doubling the same site over numerous domains they may own. Search engines shun cluttering their index with replica content and penalize sites which do extreme content reproduction in order to 'trick' their algorithms.

5. Cloaking:

Cloaking is a method of serving keyword stuffed spam page to search engine spiders by noticing their IP address, while serving totally dissimilar pages to human guests. This is diverse than geo targeting wherever you may show unlike content to different guests based on their county or language. The search engines can distinguish between the two and may penalize your site if you attempt to 'trick' them. If you want to shun any penalties, the thumb law is to show the similar content to search engines that you illustrate to the visitors.

6. Keyword spam:

Keyword spam is a method to stuff a lot of keywords all above the page - in the Meta tags, Anchor texts, Title tag, Alt Attributes etc., in an effort to increase keyword density or accommodate great number of keywords on the same page. This not merely results in the page text to sound stupid to your reader, but you also mislay the 'theme' of the page.

7. Excessive HTML markup:

It is general information that search engines give extra credit to text marked as Headline else other attributes like making the text colored, italicized, bold, underlined, etc. In an attempt to improve significance of the text, a lot of webmasters do an extreme HTML markup of their page content and conceal the ugly display behind a shrewdly made CSS.

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