Spamdexing

Search Engine Promotion: Positioning

Introduction Basics Submit Positioning Pay Per Click Software & Resources

What Not To Do - Spamdexing Spamdexing (abbreviation for "Spam indexing") is usually defined as something like: the practise of deliberately indexing or submitting pages to search engines which are designed to decrease the quality of the search engine's results. Marketers generally want to get lots of traffic from search engines, and coming near the top of the results for searches could be the way to get it. However there are two ways to come near the top of the results:- (And before we start, yes there are lots of grey areas which one person might consider reasonable, and another might consider to be "abuse" - so it's up to you to determine what you consider reasonable - as well as to find out what policies any search engines that you are submitting to, may have). Positioning Strategies This is where you optimize your site so that it is more likely to be found by people searching on relevant keywords. Search engines usually do not have a problem with techniques that do not decrease the overall quality of the search results. Spamdexing and Abuse Search engines are businesses which tend to be concerned that people keep using their search engine. Therefore the search engine will probably want users to find relevant and useful sites using their search engine, or else the user might change his/her home page! It's up to each search engine to decide whatever they consider to be "Search engine abuse" - but it could cover a variety of tactics. Generally, they might consider attempts to decrease the quality and relevance of the results, or to throw off the search engine software to be "abuse". Some of these tactics might include:- (no we are NOT advising you to do any of this!) Creating pages which contain irrelevant keywords, just to get more traffic (example: creating a page for your Western Clothing store which is designed to rank well for searches for "MP3"). Trying to defeat the search engine's relevancy algorithms (for example, including the same word 1,000 times, in the same color as the background, in tiny text, etc.) Trying to push out competitors, or index hundreds of copies of the same content. Search engines often include, in their automated software, methods to detect most forms of whatever they consider "abuse", and in the event of detection might penalize abusive sites/pages ranking or even exclude them completely from the index. Even for the fully automated search engines, at the end of the day, a human could intervene, and potentially exclude sites from the results. We do not recommend doing anything that the search engines might consider "abuse", as aside from any larger issues about whether you would be using the search engine's facilities appropriately (or providing a service to other web surfers), it could be very risky - your site might be totally excluded forever. We should also add that you should design your site so nothing can be misinterpreted as "abusive" by the software! Sometimes people make aesthetic choices which could lead to search engine disaster, for example: They might include lots of tiny text for artistic reasons, which a search engine could misinterpret as an attempt at "abuse". They could have text the same color as the background - which even though the text may be visible to a human reader (because it's say on top of a table or image) - the search engine software might think it was "abuse" Looking for SEO Software or to improve your website traffic? Here's a list of SEO Software & Downloads

Search Engine Positioning Before You Start  Keyword Research Basic Steps  Domain Name Selection  Entry Pages  IMG ALT  Link Popularity  Links and Navigation  Meta Tags  Page Content  Title Tag Advanced Steps  Database Flattening  Multiple Domains Controversial Steps  Stealth What Not To Do  Dangerous Colors  Frames  Free Web Hosting  Imagemaps  Meta Refresh  No Domain Name  Spamdexing  Tiny Text Positioning Fallacies  Meta Tags Are It?

With any business, it is up to the individual owner of said business to ensure the success of the business. You may make more or less than any sample figures or results that might be quoted on our web sites or other publications. All business involves risk, and many businesses do not succeed. Further, Answers 2000 Limited does NOT represent that any particular individual or business is typical, or that any results or experiences achieved by any particular individual/business is necessarily typical. †Disclosure: Advertising Link(s): Our company may receive a payment if you purchase a product/service after following this link. Disclosure: Our company's websites' content (including this website's content) includes advertisements for our own company's websites, products, and services, and for other organization's websites, products, and services. In the case of links to other organization's websites, our company may receive a payment, (1) if you purchase products or services, or (2) if you sign-up for third party offers, after following links from this website. Unless specifically otherwise stated, information about other organization's products and services, is based on information provided by that organization, the product/service vendor, and/or publicly available information - and should not be taken to mean that we have used the product/service in question. Additionally, our company's websites contain some adverts which we are paid to display, but whose content is not selected by us, such as Google AdSense ads. For more detailed information, please see Advertising/Endorsements Disclosures Our sites use cookies, some of which may already be set on your computer. Use of our site constitutes consent for this. For details, please see Privacy. Click privacy for information about our company's privacy, data collection and data retention policies, and your rights. Contact Us    About/Terms Of Use    Privacy    Site Map    Advertising/Endorsements Disclosures Copyright © 2000-2018 Answers 2000 Limited All third party content and adverts are copyright of their respective owners. CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED \'AS IS\' AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE,COMES FROM AMAZON EU S.à r.l. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED \'AS IS\' AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. In Association With Amazon.com Answers 2000 Limited is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. In Association With Amazon.co.uk Answers 2000 Limited is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk. As an Amazon Associate, our company earns from qualifying purchases. Amazon, the Amazon logo, Endless, and the Endless logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.