Don’t Wave Any Spam Flags If You Want Traffic From Google
If you want Google to rank your website highly, you must avoid all appearances of spam.
Many webmasters unknowingly promote their websites with methods that Google regards as spammy. It’s easy to fall into such a trap, because technology allows us to automate and speed up the process of doing things to promote our websites, and not all these things seem to hurt anybody as ordinary email spam does.
But any action you take that substitutes automation for the efforts of a human being, makes you and your website suspicious to Google. Rightly or wrongly, they regard all such automation as subject to abuse. So it can get you banned, your Page Rank reduced to 0 or your pages exiled to their Supplemental results.
Here are some spam flags to avoid:
1. All the usual on-page black hat SEO techniques. Most people today know to avoid most of them: invisible text, hidden images, keywords stuffed metatags and so on. Don’t use automated web page generation software. Cloaking is one which is still is still in widespread use. But Google is working hard to detect and ban sites using...