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 [...]
Cloaking – The Ultimate Black Hat SEO Technique
November 9th, 2011Don’t Cloak Like a Black Hatter!
August 24th, 2011Cloaking 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 [...]
Why Doorway Creation Software is a BAD Idea
February 22nd, 2010Long 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 [...]
Why Cloaking is Bad
February 17th, 2010Cloaking is one of the sneakiest black hat SEO techniques. Some SEO professionals use this method when they optimize their websites or their client’s websites. This is definitely an underhanded SEO techniques, and not that evident to visitors, but Google and other search engines will discover it and penalize those who cloak their websites. Severe [...]
The Seven Steps You Shouldn’t Take to SEO
June 23rd, 2008We do a lot of talking about ways to improve search engine rankings by optimizing our site with keywords, links and other tools of the trade. It’s easy to get carried away, though, and every once in a while we need to do a self check to be sure we aren’t crossing any lines in [...]