This is a valuable resource for up and coming SEOs and existing SEOs.
Spam is used by many Black Hat SEOs to artificially inflate the ranking (organically or otherwise).
There are many different Spam Techniques:
1. Keywords unrelated to the content of the site (a rose by any other name, IS STILL NOT A ROSE)
2. Redirects (bait and switch)
3. Keyword Stuffing
4. Mirror/Duplicate Content (theft of others content too!)
5. Hidden, Tiny or small Text (if I can’t see it, is it really there?)
6. Hidden, Tiny or small Links
7. Doorway pages
8. Link Farms
These practices can produce quick, positive organic results, however, this is only until the search engines, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask and others, figure it out… It really is not hard to get their advanced algorithms tweaked and your site is done.
There was a great movie about a farm boy that loved baseball, you might have heard of it: Field of Dreams (I love baseball too – GO CUBS!), but there was a great quote: “If you build it… they will come”.
I implore you, young webmasters and SEOs to come, build it right and they (engines) will come! Plus they will bring all of their users that are looking at what you have to offer. Who knows… you may even have something to be proud about, and others will know. Oh, and when you do, give me back my two cents.
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