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Top 10 Google Don’ts

Posted by johan November 04, 2006

There is a lot of SEO-related information available on what to do to optimize your organic search engine ranking. But, perhaps equally important, are the things you should refrain from doing, if you want to maintain or increase your page rank that is.

Marziah Karch at About has a nice article on some of the essential things that you want to avoid, unless your goal is to be “banned” from search engines. She focuses on Google in particular, but many of her tips are applicable to almost all search engines, including Yahoo, MSN, etc.

The top 10 things to avoid can be summarized as:

  1. Cloaking
  2. Duplicate Content
  3. Have a Robot Write Your Web Site
  4. Add Keywords that Don’t Relate to Your Content
  5. Link to Bad Neighborhoods
  6. Hide Text
  7. Title Stacking
  8. Distribute Viruses, Trojans, or Other Badware
  9. Doorway Pages
  10. Automated Inquiries

The bottom-line comes down to producing valuable content for your visitors. There are several recent examples of this in the blogsphere. The first being John Chow’s blog. He started his blog earlier this year, and just in the month of October, 2006, his blogging income was $1,361.64 based on Google AdSense and Vibrant Media IntelliTXT alone. [:on | smalltalk] is another site (also a blog) that demonstrates the traffic-driving power of valuable content. Within just a few months, the author has been able to gain 23167 visitors (October, 2006 statistics).

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