9 Ways To Get Banned by Search Engines
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Putting together an SEO campaign and thinking that cloaking, link farming or regurgitating content will get your site high rankings? Think again. Chances are, your site will get banned or ommitted from the top search engines; meaning Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Live.com, by using these techniques. Black Hat SEO is a touchy field and if you&#8217;re [...]
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&quot;The State of Search Engine Safety,&quot; a recent study by McAfee&#39;s SiteAdvisor group, has some classic good news and bad news for Internet surfers. Using several automated techniques, the SiteAdvisor study determined that 4 percent of the query results offered by the major search engines lead to potentially dangerous Web sites, and the total for sponsored links is nearly twice as high at 7 percent.
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Google makes it easier for bloggers to distract their users by allowing its
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Google and the History of Link Building  I can't begin to tell you how sick I am of reading articles and posts that mention the two words "Google" and "penalty" in the same sentence!  So many webmasters are walking on eggshells these days when it comes to Google, and it just doesn't ...
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My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away.  If you&#8217;re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you&#8217;re potentionally [...]
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Even the most seasoned optimization experts hit roadblocks when it comes to marketing their web sites. When these issues arise, the most common way to deal with them is through the use of pay per click advertising. It is important to understand that search engine optimization has its limitations. With the introduction of Google&#8217;s Universal Search [...]
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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Aaron Wall at SEObook has put together a thought provoking post on current linking techniques, structure, and how Google reliance on trusted sources &#038; domains is in jeopardy as those resouces become more and more abused. Finding the Most Powerful Links Anything that has been greatly trusted has been abused. The difference between the current abuse and [...]
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Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.
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Plus: Is Microsoft search engine crawling Google? [News.com Extra]
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Hack Your Competition Out of Organic Search - MSN And Yahoo Join Google With Sitemaps - How Local Search And SEM Relates - What to Look for When Purchasing Links? - What Tools Does An SEO Guru Use? and more.
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Social networking site offers profiles to search engines and gives users chance to opt out.
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A few months ago I wrote about Web browser hijacking. It&#39;s a problem a lot of computer users are facing these days. You open your Internet Explorer, but instead of being directed to your homepage, you&#39;re sent to some search engine you&#39;ve never heard of.
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Developing and promoting a site for a company in a highly regulated industry can be a challenge to a search marketer on many unforeseen levels. Here's how to avoid common gotchas or even worse consequences.
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Huge databases that generate Web site content on the fly can be the bane of search engine spiders' existence. They can't find pages; they can't see URLs. So they can't index pages.
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How some companies neglect simple marketing rules in Search Engine Optimization.
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All savvy search engine marketers know how to create a search-friendly site that can be easily read by a search engine spider, or bot. But what happens when those bots go bad?