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Have You Checked Your Website’s Security Lately?

December 1st, 2011

What is having a website all about behind the scenes? Having a website is not all about SEO, traffic, linking, content and conversions. You have to be aware of how safe your site is for the people who visit it and also how secure our own information is. If you can’t provide a safe space [...]

 
 

Cloaking – The Ultimate Black Hat SEO Technique

November 9th, 2011

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique that some SEO professionals live and die by when they optimize their websites or their client’s website. Cloaking, unlike many other SEO techniques, is not something which is very evident to the users – and that is by design. You must make sure that when you hire a [...]

 
 

Don’t Cloak Like a Black Hatter!

August 24th, 2011

Cloaking is one of the more common SEO black hat techniques that you may run across. There are still some SEO professionals using this technique to optimize their websites or those of their client. Unlike the many other SEO techniques available, cloaking is not all that evident to the users if at all – even [...]

 
 

The Submitedge Scam Fighting Strategy

July 28th, 2011

With the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) being bandied about in hopes most people won’t know what it really consists of, scam artists are making bank by promising the moon. SubmitEdge is a reputable SEO company that has seen many clients of other less honest businesses come running to their real SEO Services after being [...]

 
 

Building Your Relationship With Your SEO Firm

July 18th, 2011

When you begin a relationship with an SEO company, you need to get actual answers from them regarding how they will help improve your rank. All too often SEOs will promise the sun and moon along with top page rank, but never explain to you what their strategy is. This is not because it violates [...]

 
 

SEO Report: What is No-Follow and Why Does It Matter?

September 16th, 2010

The nofollow attribute, introduced by Google in 2005, is of huge importance – and those who are engaged in link building would do well to pay attention to this attribute. If a website uses the “nofollow” attribute in its site for their external links, then Google will not award any credit in the form of [...]

 
 

SEO Report: Black Hat Sabotage

September 12th, 2010

Sometimes you may see what you think is amazing success of some of your white hat SEO tactics – but it turns out instead to be your competitors playing a black hat trick! Google Bowlong, for example; one of the black hat tricks used by some unscrupulous webmasters to get your website into horrific trouble. [...]

 
 

SEO Report – Can You Over-Optimize?

July 31st, 2010

We’ve talked about keyword stuffing… in text, in meta tags, and elsewhere; buying paid links, engaging in black hattery such as white on white text and deceptive redirects. SEO is a game to some, but the penalties for ‘over optimizing’ are clear – break the rules fo the search engines, and they may exact punishment! [...]

 
 

Why Doorway Creation Software is a BAD Idea

February 22nd, 2010

Long ago and far away, there was a black hat tactic known as doorway page creation. It is mostly forgotten now, which is why some sneaky black hat SEOs are trying to revive the practice, calling it by a new name. It used to be possible to increase the number of entry points to your [...]

 
 

How to Spot a Black Hat SEO

February 1st, 2010

How do you spot a black hat SEO before they take your money, mess up your site in order to artificially create rankings, and run?  Finding a reputable SEO Firm can be hard, so here’s some tips on how not to get taken for a ride by a black hatter. 1. A legitimate SEO will [...]