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Bad SEO Practices That Can Harm to Your Website
Search engines consider a website as spam if the website owner considers malpractices in promoting the website. So, it is very important to know the bad SEO practices that could harm the website. Here are some of the facts that you should be aware of:
Link buying: Search engines treat a website spam or redundant if they find irrelevant or unreliable back links. So, you should always be cautious while buying a back link from a link farm or else once search engines tag the website as spam it could damage the ranking and page rank.
Complex coding: Building a website using complex codes makes it difficult for the spiders of search engines to crawl. The robots fail to read the codes and do not consider as relevant to display it on its search engines result page. So, always consider simple codes to build a website so that search engines can easily crawl.
Consistent updates: Search engines treat a website as relevant when it tracks updates or activities on a regular basis. So, if you want to rank your website on search engines upload content on a daily basis or alternate days because search engine robots can accurately predict the update.
Getting Better At Keywords : Avoid keyword stuffing, but do keywords right
By Chris Crum at WebProNews
Last week, Google unleashed its Penguin update upon webmasters. The update, as you may know, was designed to decrease the rankings of sites engaging in black hat SEO tactics and webspam. One of the classic black hat tactics is keywords stuffing, so if you’ve been doing this and getting away with it in the past, there’s a good chance the update took you down a notch.
Specifically, Google’s Matt Cutts said the update “will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google’s existing quality guidelines. Avoiding keyword stuffing has long been one of these guidelines. The guideline says, “Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.”
Google has a page about this in its help center, where it elaborates a little more. Here’s what Google says, verbatim, about keyword stuffing there:
“Keyword stuffing” refers to the practice of loading a webpage with keywords in an attempt to manipulate a site’s ranking in Google’s search results. Filling pages with keywords results in a negative user experience, and can harm your site’s ranking. Focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context.
Google Penguin Update: Don’t Forget About Duplicate Content
By Chris Crum at WebProNews
There has been a ton of speculation regarding Google’s Penguin update. Few know exactly what the update specifically does, and how it works with Google’s other signals exactly. Google always plays its hand close to its chest.“While we can’t divulge specific signals because we don’t want to give people a way to game our search results and worsen the experience for users, our advice for webmasters is to focus on creating high quality sites that create a good user experience and employ white hat SEO methods instead of engaging in aggressive webspam tactics,” Google’s Matt Cutts said in the announcement of the update.
He also said, “The change will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google’s existing quality guidelines.”
Google Guidelines For Creating Multi-Regional And Multilingual Sites – SEO for Multilingual & Multi-Regional Websites
Multi-regional and multilingual sites & SEO – Google Guidelines
A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English and a French version of its site, or a blog on Latin American soccer available in both Spanish and Portuguese.
A multi-regional website is one that explicitly targets users in different countries. Some sites are both multi-regional and multilingual (for example, a site might have different versions for the USA and for Canada, and both French and English versions of the Canadian content).
Expanding a website to cover multiple countries and/or languages can be challenging. Because you have multiple versions of your site, any issues will be multiplied, so make sure you test your original site as thoroughly as possible and make sure you have the appropriate infrastructure to handle these sites. Following are some guidelines and best practices to follow when creating multilingual and/or multi-regional sites.
