Don't do's for effective search engine submission

Search engine optimisation is a massive area for Internet marketing, usually if your website can not be found on the search engines your website is likely to receive little or no visitors at all. Search engine optimisation is an extremely competitive market, where nearly any webmaster will do anything to try and get that top ranking. This article discusses the big don'ts of search engine optimisation practices:

Hidden text

This will most certainly get your website banned from the search engines. Hidden text is an unethical method of search engine optimisation and is strongly frowned-upon by the big three.

Don't submit to Free for All (FFA) websites

Don't submit your website to free for all networks and pages (FFA). Many websites promise to provide a top 10 ranking for your website. These are websites which promise you thousands of links to your website, and may get you to install some code on your website to display links. This method of search engine Optimisation is inadvisable and is strongly suggested that you stay away from these websites, it may also ban your website from the search engines if you signup.

Keep the keyword density low

Most webmasters are aware that keyword density plays a big part in search engine optimisation and usually over optimise their website. Search engines like websites which contain natural flowing text and the correct keyword density, rather than indexing a webpage that consists of keywords concatenated together with commas.

Don't optimise pages for a wide number of keywords

Don't optimise pages on your website with a wide number of keywords which are not related. Keep the pages on your website concise with a particular keyword or keyphrase. If your website is concise with a particular keyword then this will help increase your search engine ranking position within the big three.

Duplicate website content

This is a big no no! You should not use duplicate content on your website, these pages will most likely not get indexed, or they will have no value within the search engines.

Infamous "click here" links

The internal linking structure of a website plays a big part in search engine optimisation. Keywords which are used within internal links also increase your position within the search engine ranking pages. Many webmasters use the infamous "click here" links when usually referring to something within their text, this is a poor way of optimising a website for the search engines.

Automated link exchange networks

Many automated link exchange networks exist on the Internet today. Many of these websites promise that they will provide thousands on incoming reciprocal links to your website through simply signing up to their service. This method of search engine optimisation is usually frowned-upon, as the links you will be receiving may have no quality value and will usually flag up your website within the search engines.

As you can see it is very easy to use inappropriate practices in search engine optimisation. So please feel free to contact us with questions you may have regarding these or other SEO techniques you want more information on.

For more information on these and other areas, please don't hesitate to contact us - andrew@inloco.co.za, 011 465 7557, or www.inloco.co.za

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