Good Search Engine Optimization Vs Bad Search Engine Optimization
This is a guest post by Diana
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the technical side of marketing on the World Wide Web. It helps by promoting websites and increases traffic to the particular site. Sometimes SEO or search engine optimization is also called SEO copyrighting. This is because the strategies or techniques that are used for the promotion of website are done mainly through text. However, it is important not to deviate from the basic norms that get you a good ranking for your site.
SEO or Search Engine Optimization can be of 2 types – Good and Bad. Let us see what the characteristics of good and bad SEO are.
Characteristics of good SEO
- It adheres to the rules of SEO.
- It aims at securing top rankings in the major search engines
- Although the progress is slow sometimes and can take about 6 to 12 months to get steady rankings, the results are long lasting
- It focuses mainly on long-term goals and objectives of the website.
- SEO services include link building, natural optimization, Social Media Marketing and management of Pay-Per Click etc.
- Good search engine optimization lays stress on research as well as keywords. It emphasizes on validity of content.
Characteristics of bad SEO
Just as there are traits of good or White Hat SEO, there are bad characteristics of search engine optimization too and the “bad guys” usually do it for selfish means and to deviate or hoodwink visitors. They do it for short term rankings and want to see quick results, but it by using these ways it wont take long before Google notices this and bans you or penelizes your site.
- Bad SEO makes use of hidden text, link spamming, link farming etc. They violate search engine optimization guidelines.
- Make use of Black Hat techniques that may include doorway pages, overdoing RSS, duplicate content and keyword stuffing etc
- It offers shortcuts to get rankings in the main search engines. It concentrates on immediate or short term goals and not on long-term objectives.
- It misleads and misguides visitors on the Web.
It is very important to remember that although the bad SEO or Black Hat guys may derive immediate benefits but it doesn’t sustain. Websites indulging in such practices are usually penalized there by causing irreparable damage to their image and website.
Search engine optimization is a technique of web marketing. The World Wide Web is infested with bad and good guys.
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December 1st, 2009 at 23:16
Thanks for this article. I can know whether my current SEO work is good or bad from the result now.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 03:26
Good post! I’m not doing good in SEO. I wish to do SEO better. This article enables me to know more about SEO. Thanks for sharing!
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December 2nd, 2009 at 08:37
For me, there’s no good and bad SEO because all SEO theory now are myths, people out there guess, follow what they believe and when start getting traffic from SE, they say it is good. Besides, Search Engines change their algorithms always, so tactics must change as well.
The crucial thing is to create great content and all SEs are heading to show good links to users.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 11:16
Great article ! Worth reading
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December 3rd, 2009 at 04:18
I like how to broke SEO down to good guys and bad guys. In my opinion the good guys really do prosper in the long run–at least I have so far. Thanks for the post.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 13:26
It is more difficult to follow good SEO, because it takes longer to take effect. But after a few months I think it will generate more traffic and income than the short term bad SEO strategy.
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December 5th, 2009 at 03:53
Neat post Diana!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard the terms ‘white hat’ and ‘black hat’ SEO. I learned about this when I was first starting out with SEO. As soon as I knew what SEO was I was thinking ‘well I could just hide keywords all over the page and get ranked no1 easy’. This was before I knew this was ‘black hat’ SEO or bad practice to do so (I never actually did it, it was just something I thought about when I first understood the basics of how search engines worked)
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December 10th, 2009 at 01:53
I still dont get the black hat and white hat theory. what does it mean actually? how does it effect search engines?
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December 5th, 2009 at 16:12
We must add list Black Hat Seo like white hat
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December 6th, 2009 at 18:33
i used to link exchange or submit my websites into directories having link farm as i didnt knew about SEO or quality link building much
but i started reading seo ebooks and seo blogs so now i believe in quality and white hat seo only
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December 7th, 2009 at 11:21
Characteristics of good SEO for me as a user:
shows me the page I really need! About milk – means about milk ans so on
Characteristics of good SEO for me as a SEO specialist:
shows “my” milk-factory page cos “milk” is the one of me keywords.
You see, this question has 2 size min!
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December 7th, 2009 at 15:07
But people prefer bad SEO nowadays. It proved by the spammy comments received each day
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December 8th, 2009 at 07:46
That was a nice article.. I need to figure out the type of SEO I’m practicing now!
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December 8th, 2009 at 13:23
Its easy to say that but a lot of us usually dont think an SEO tactic is bad unless we’re punished already. I mean the world of SEO is changing constantly that we may be implementing tactics that could be obsolete tomorrow
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December 10th, 2009 at 12:17
Thanks to all of you for reading my article…it was nice to see such good people really thinking about what SEO is all about.
my heartiest wishes to all of them along with the admin of this blog….keep your good work going on….
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December 10th, 2009 at 18:29
I still dont get the black hat and white hat theory. what does it mean actually? how does it effect search engines?
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December 15th, 2009 at 09:08
I don’t know there is bad SEO until I read this. Hopefully, I am not in bad SEO.
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