duminică, 8 august 2010

Black Hat SEO And Internet Marketing And The Consequences

By Adriana Noton

SEO and Internet marketing are not an easy process. Some people use shortcuts instead of putting more effort to create legitimate high ranking websites. These people sometimes can use unethical SEO practices that create unhealthy environment on the internet. Black hat SEO is optimizing a website with unethical behaviour.

Some popular unethical SEO practices are link spamming, doorway pages, keyword stuffing, and invisible text. When someone does a keyword stuffing, they fill their pages with so many keywords. The pages themselves are usually low quality pages and some of them have nonsensical content.

Some people are frustrated when creating links back to their websites. They go to many other websites and post links to their websites and disregarding the rules of the website they visit. These people usually place their links on comments feature on websites that encourage discussion and opinion of their articles and on forum board. Spamming links are futile because there are many programs to filter comments and the webmaster will usually delete such comments and ban the offending users.

Doorway pages and invisible text have some similarities. Both of them contain content that are invisible to users. These pages and texts are created to trick search engines into thinking they have content that do not actually exist. Keyword stuffing is usually used in this pages and texts.

Some websites use computer programs to automatically create thousands of new pages covering many topics. These pages are left blank, containing only links or ads, or sometimes they are filled with stolen or scrapped content from other websites.

Shady practices not only disturb other internet users. These practices actually hurt what they are trying to create, which defeats the essence of Internet marketing. First of all, such websites will have bad images in the eyes of their readers. Annoyed readers might report these sites for spamming to search engine to penalize them. They will also skip your websites in the future, which make it impossible to gain loyal readers. Instead, always opt for ethical SEO practices for your Internet marketing strategy.

Search engines always improve their algorithm to be able to find websites more effectively. They are working to screen websites that use black hat SEO and penalize them. Penalties will include dropping your search ranking or even banning your websites from their results altogether. When this happen, all of your hard work will be in vain.

Although you might have succeeded in tricking search engines, there are other reasons why these practices should be avoided. Many people are becoming more apt at discerning good and bad websites. There are also many additional programs they can install on their browser which they can use to filter websites with shady reputation which will prevent readers from visiting your sites.

You might know about these shady practices when you hire your SEO and internet marketing experts. After you gain knowledge about black hat SEO practices, you should be able to avoid them and pay attention to the strategies that your SEO experts use.

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