5 Common Search Engine Spam Techniques

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MediaPost: How To Spot A Fraudulent SEO Firm

Looks at the different forms of search engine spamming and what affects they could have on your rankings. According to the article, the 5 major forms of fraudulent SEO include:

- Shadow domains: production of multiple websites by using several different domain names to artificially boost search results for one Web site.
- Doorway pages: duplicating similar content on several pages in an attempt to expand keywords and drive traffic.

- Invisible text: writing text in the same color as a website’s background.
- Link farms: creating links to a site from irrelevant or illegitimate “affiliates.”
- Cloaking: showing a web surfer one version of a page while showing a search engine a completely different page for its index.

As a result of these techniques, “legitimate companies are getting bumped from Google and Yahoo! for illegal search engine optimization (SEO) practices, and most don’t know why.“

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