Top 10 Things You Should Never Do for SEO
Don't like being found in Google? Here are some sure fired ways to lower
your ranking and get the worst search engine results. These are the worst of
the worst dirty tricks, and they can lower your Google ranking or just get
you banned.
Getting page views at any cost is not a good tactic. It never works in
the long run, even if it may work in the short run. Beware of any company
that recommends you employ any of these techniques.
1) Cloaking
Designing your Web site so that search engines see one thing and
visitors see another is called cloaking. This can be done with
sneaky redirects or with programming, and it's strictly verboten.
Nobody likes to be tricked this way. If they're looking for a Web
site on knitting, they'll be very ticked to end up on a Web site about
horses.
Cloaking your Web site is a sure-fire way to get banned from Google.
Learn more about cloaking from the
About Guide to Web Design.
2) Duplicate Content
Spam sites sometimes try to collect page views by duplicating the same
content on multiple pages.
Don't copy and paste large amounts of text from your own pages, and
certainly don't violate copyright by copying content from elsewhere.
Google has been known to ban sites that duplicate too much content.
This can occasionally cause problems, because some spamming Web site
might be duplicating your content. If you find someone
violating your copyright this way, you
can let Google know.
3) Have a Robot Write Your Web Site
Just as it's a bad idea to duplicate content, it's a worse idea to get a
machine to write your content for you. There are programs out there that
duplicate the same content but make a few changes here and there. If
Google catches you, and they're pretty good at catching this, you can
kiss your page views goodbye.
Write your own content. That's as simple as it gets.
Don't buy "instant AdSense" Web sites. If this really made lots of
passive money, they wouldn't be selling them.
4) Add Keywords that Don't Relate to Your Content
Meta keywords aren't that important to Google anymore. However, when you
list keywords, do list keywords that directly relate to
your site, and don't repeat the same keyword multiple
times. Spamming keywords by listing every word in the dictionary is a
great way to have your ranking lowered in Google.
Likewise, don't use the trademarked names of products made by your
competitors as keywords. At best it's a bad user experience, at worse it
can get you sued by those competitors.
5)
Link to Bad Neighborhoods
Google calls spamming sites bad neighborhoods, and linking to
them is a great way to lower your
PageRank.
Linking ordinarily would make you a good neighbor and a good citizen
of the Internet. However, just because someone links to you does not
obligate you to link back to them. Check out the Web site first, and
make sure it is not a bad neighborhood.
How do you know it's a bad neighborhood? Check their PageRank and
scan the Web site for any of the violations you see here.
6) Hide Text
Don't try to hide keywords by making the background color the same as
the font color. This is called keyword stuffing or
fontmatching. Google and other search engines are increasingly
sophisticated at catching this, and they'll likely remove any offending
Web sites from their search engine index.
Likewise, watch how small you make the text. In a variation of
keyword stuffing, some people try to put teeny tiny text at the bottom
of a page. It doesn't work.
7) Title Stacking
Don't try to add extra
keyword stuffing is called title stacking, and it won't win you
any friends at Google.
One title per page, please, although you may separate that title with
a dash to hit a few more keywords that do relate to your content, such
as "Pie Crust Recipe - Homemade Pastry Dough."
8) Distribute Viruses, Trojans, or Other Badware
If your site is distributing a virus, trojan, or other badware, Google's
going to remove you from their index for the public good. This should be
a no-brainer.
Double check any software you agree to
distribute to make sure it isn't harmful, and make sure your server is
secure, so that hackers don't decide to hijack your Web site and
distribute malicious software for you.
Learn more about viruses from PCWorld.
9) Doorway Pages
Doorway pages or Gateway pages are pages that are
optimized for one key term but are really designed to be gateways to
lead you to different content. For instance the "blueberry,"
"strawberry," and "orange" gateways might all be designed to get you to
go to "fruit punch."
Doorway pages usually have very little in the way of original content
and often cloak or redirect users to the intended Web site. Be aware of
affiliate programs, because some of these may look like doorway pages to
Google.
10) Automated Inquiries
Google doesn't appreciate robots writing your content, and they're even
less appreciative of robots checking your ranking. Automated Google
queries and automated link submission are both against Google's terms of
service, and both of them can get your site banned. They tie up
computing resources for everyone.
In Conclusion
Don't be a jerk. Optimize your Web site for Google by designing a
clear, well organized site. Don't try to trick people or take the lazy
way out of making good content.
转载出处:About.com | 作者 Marziah Karch
没有评论:
发表评论