Comments on: Bad SEO Techniques That Will Hurt Your Google Rankings

By: Christie

Christie — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:02:22 +0000

Good post! The only point I’d like to expand on is the two-way linking point. I agree, if it doesn’t seem natural, then it won’t really help. But here’s a case, where it could be very natural and not forced at all (I actually just blogged about this one!):

Say you’re a jewelry designer and a web designer designs your site. At the bottom of your jewelry site’s page, there is copy (and a link) that says, “This website designed by XYZ web design.” On the web designer’s site, they have a portfolio page with a screenshot your jewelry design homepage and a link to your site. This is a totally normal, natural two-way link that doesn’t feel forced.

So, while I agree, one-way links are best, two-way linking does not always feel forced and can be just as natural as a one-way link.

By: Austin SEO

Austin SEO — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:18:19 +0000

Submitting to “Link Farms” doesn’t contribute to your credibility and is just not worth the risk. Instead, spend time submitting to credible directories and exchanging links with other relevant sites. Thought time-consuming, it is the only way to generate safe, site-specific traffic.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:10:53 +0000

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By: Listorbit

Listorbit — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:17:02 +0000

All those are advanced techniques but if u r caught then black hat or spammy.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:01:00 +0000

My question is the same as Dan’s (last poster before me)

I have a few WordPress blogs and one of my first blogs I noticed quite a few “tag” pages being indexed in Google. Naively I thought this was cool, more pages = more visitors. Shortly after these tag pages were indexed I got, and still don’t have, many Google visitors.

Oddly enough, I don’t see any tag pages in Y/MSN. I just recently added in my robots file Disallow: /tag/

Even though pages have already been indexed, will Google DE-INDEX these pages and help my site do you think? Or is it too late?

It’s hard to find info on Dupe Content when it comes to tags :(

By: Dan SPielman

Dan SPielman — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:50:28 +0000

Is too many TAGS in your blog posts a way to derank in google?

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By: Mike Dammann

Mike Dammann — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:17:55 +0000

the owner woke up one morning and looked at the good morning thread and wanted people to forget who started it all. He actually offered someone $220k to take it from him and the sitepoint mods accidentally turned it into an auction. He got lucky.

By: EGCG

EGCG — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:37:11 +0000

Was it the reason v7n finally decided to sell whole v7n network at very cheap price ($220,000)?