Don't Do's of Search Engine Optimization

A short list of seo tips that will surely get your website off to a BAD start!

1. Duplicate Content - Coping aka: stealing someone else's content it is a quick way to throw your website into the Google warning radar.

2. Keyword Stuffing - Using to many keywords on your page and using keywords that have no reverence to your website.

3. Hidden Text - Hiding text and keywords to try and rank better. Such as hiding text behind images, text same color as background and text in tables outside the viewing area.

4. Title Stacking - Adding extra title meta tags to your page will piss Google off a little bit.

5. Doorway Pages - Creating gateway pages optimized for a specific keyword that redirect the user to an entirely different page.

6. Cloaking - Building your website so search engine spiders see on thing and visitors see another. This will get you a BIG red X from Google.

7. Link to Bad Neighborhoods - Having a link on your website with or without the "nofollow" attribute will have a negative effect on your website.

There are many other black hat methods that will get you banned or penalized by Google but this is the basics to avoid.