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Laptop Battery In this article I discuss ten controversial search engine optimization techniques that should be used with caution, or even avoided altogether.

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Thinkpad 1. Duplicate Pages

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Desktop Computer 3. Keywords In Comment Tags

Notebooks Hardly any, if any, of the major search engines index comment tags, so don't waste time adding them for optimization purposes.

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Software Search engines consider link farms and link exchange programs as spam, as they have only one purpose - to artificially inflate a site's link popularity, by exchanging links with other participants.

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Electronics 7. Links Only Pages

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Desktop Computers In general, meta refresh tags set for under 30 seconds are considered as spam by search engines. As such, most search engine optimizers use JavaScript redirects.

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Keyboard Many of the major search engines consider tiny text (i.e. font size 1) as spam. Some use of tiny text is fine. Search engines don't like web pages that use a lot of tiny text. The reason is because some webmasters have used it to fool search engines by "hiding" dozens of keywords in a web page.

Monitor 10. Cloaking

Desktop Cloaking is the practice of serving search engine optimized pages to search engine spiders, while at the same time serving un-optimized pages to site visitors.

Infosys Cloaking is one of the most controversial strategies in search engine optimization. Major search engines publicly state that they consider all cloaking to be spam. However, many professional search engine optimizers have been using cloaking for years, with much success.

Refurbished Laptops Until there is conclusive proof that search engines do indeed ban sites that use cloaking, I suggest you take care if you decide to use cloaking.

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Lap Top Conclusion

Refurbished There are many controversial search engine optimization techniques. There are people who despise the use of certain techniques, such as cloaking. But the fact of the matter is that there are no right or wrong ways to optimize a web page.

Memory What might be considered as spam by one search engine may be accepted by another. What works today may be banned tomorrow.

Intel The art and science of marketing is about testing to see what works and what doesn't. I recommend taking the same approach with search engine optimization. After all, it is just another form of marketing.

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Averatec About The Author: Michael Wong is a respected internet marketing expert , and the author of a leading search engine optimization book , numerous marketing articles , and reviews of marketing software and ecommerce software .

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