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Common Types Of SEO Spam

June 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Nowadays SEO spam is a lot more common than you might believe. We recommend that you never use it because on the long run you will surely end up losing points in your race against the competition. On the other hand, it is really important to know what you are up against. This is exactly why we are going to talk a little about the most popular SEO Spam techniques that people are using at the moment.

1. Cloaking – Stealth

This is a very common spam technique that will send one information to the visitor of a page and another one towards a spider.

2. Leader Pages

In this case we are talking about some similar documents that will meed different SE algorithm requirements. This SEO Spam trick is very popular and dates back a long time ago. You are basically using the exact same documents with really small difference between files. Such SEO spam does not work anymore although a lot still use it.

3. Link Farms

When people found out about the importance of inbound links, Link Farms appeared. In these sites you add links without being asked any questions. This also does not work anymore as Google quickly fought the phenomenon. Even so, a lot of web masters and even SEO firms are still using them, not actually knowing that it can hurt sites or just in order to reach a number of inbound links they are selling to people that are not informed.

4. Blog – Forum Spam

Now this is a form of SEO spam that is definitely used too much by people these days. Links coming from forums and especially blogs are really valuable and the possibility of adding a comment to them has brought in people that simply spam comments in order to gain back links.

5. Keyword Spam

As you can imagine, this technique does not work at the moment. We are talking about taking a web page and simply stuffing it with keywords. This factor was really important in the past and, unfortunately, there are still some search engines where it does work.

6. Hidden Text

Contrary to popular belief, we have 2 main types of hidden text. The first one has the same color as the background of a page (thus invisible to human eyes but not SE spiders) and the second one hidden in the back of layers or images.

7. Email Spam

Although this is not actually linked with SEO spam it still needs to be mentioned. A lot of people are still sending spam emails, which can be very dangerous from many point of views. Always be careful with emails that you receive and do not actually requested.

I have to recommend that you never use SEO spam because it basically creates problems for you instead of helping you. Sure, on the short run you might land some sales or get some Adsense clicks but as time passes you will be caught, you will lose points in search engine rankings and end up losing money and having to start over again.

You should learn some things in order to gain visitors like how to write SEO articles. You should take a chance and visit Internet Marketing or maybe try Mass Article Control Review.

Tags: Search Engine Optimization

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