Comments on: SEO Mistakes: Unwise comments

By: Quality Backlinks

Quality Backlinks — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:23:43 +0000

One of the most common mistake is people get backlinks for their websites like anything. They just eat it like they have not eaten things for years. This behaviour traps them in "Google Sandbox". The more they get backlinks once trapped, the more they increase years to get of that sandbox. So be careful. 10 Links a day is good. If you are doing 100 links a day, you will see your site de-indexed in Goggle. quality backlinks

By: Jason Craft

Jason Craft — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:55:39 +0000

Hidden layers are commonly used for multiple purposes, for example, layers can be used to keep multiple content without having the need to redownload pages everytime, if this is interpreted as se spam, what’s the alternative method of keeping multiple content concurrently then?

By: ruby

ruby — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:12:01 +0000

wow … your site was PR7 back in 2005, and now dropped to PR1 …

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:45:55 +0000

Looking at your removed CSS reminds me that sometimes I worry about using H1, H2.. headers and then using CSS to keep the website format tidy and uniform. I do hope Google don’t expect you to put plain text H1 on websites and look strange! After all, it should be all about user friendliness.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:19:20 +0000

Here’s my question and concern.
I use Wordpress for my website. The newest version has added captions to the images and displays the caption. The caption is the same text used in the ALT tag as well, so simply not adding it is not an option. This new caption messes up my design, so I need it to go away.

Because this is built in and uses a specific class, I am forced to use the display:none code in CSS to remove it, yet the text for the caption is still shown, albeit not in H1 tags. However, it is a repetition of the ALT tag for the image.

Is this something I should be concerned with?

By: SEO company

SEO company — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:27 +0000

Its so irritating when you come up against spammers using this kind of tactic. It can feel like forever before Google pick up on them and penalise accordingly! I am currently on my 4th submission of reporting spam in webmasters for a company (loudwatergarage .com) who are quite literally stealing business from my client westlakemotorservices.com thanks to their position brought about by using tiny, background coloured text!! and more relative to your post is the black hat SEO’d (sousterandhicks .com) tailor who has knocked my client http://www.idbespoke.co.uk off top spot by including an invisible div which is, as documented by yourself, littered with keywords in H1 tags. ARRRRGGGHHHHHH !!! please tell me that my White Hat SEO work is not in vain!

By: P. from Weston MA

P. from Weston MA — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:10:34 +0000

Interesting… I’ve been trying to SEO-optimize my front page, I have a little trouble with the ethics of it. Most of the changes I have made have been adding and focusing the content towards some keywords, stuff that would also make it more relevant for a human, not just for search engines.

I fully imagine that google might get smart about this div-hiding nonsense and delist their page — that’s the danger with trying to cheat Google, they might cheat you back.

My page ( efactusa.com ) uses tables right now — I was reading that using divs would be better for the code-to-text ratio and improve the ranking. However, this strikes me as a little bit borderline — the page looks fine for humans right now, why should we have to make changes just for the search engines’ sake? On the other hand, if we don’t bother making those changes, we lose search traffic to other sites who push the limits more.

By: Gerry Mael

Gerry Mael — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:49:25 +0000

Spam is whatever is uninteresting to the observer. Conversely, what you may think is news or anything else of worth (considering the news source is almost anything but Fox News), I might call “spam.” In judging a story or article on technology, for instance, without knowing that you are the inventor, entrepreneur, etc., in question, I won’t jump to the conclusion that you’re spamming. The spam vs. non-spam distinction, if we’re really honest about it, is the distinction between what-is-profitable-to-me and what-is-not-profitable-to-me.

By: ethical

ethical — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:54:39 +0000

What!!! – I cannot imagine putting comments in the code to remind yourself where to keyword stuff! – I am not into blackhat at all, but if i were i would like to think i would not be so dumb!

Is this from a very old site???

By: remus

remus — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:08:08 +0000

yep – “insert your hidden text here” is hilarious.Looks like the optimization is made by some guys that fiind out is about keyword density but didn’t read the whole article:)
Also i didn;t see this on Carlocab – maybe i looked on the wrong page