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Bad SEO is not something new or something uncommon and yes it can really destroy your Google rankings. In this article I will explain what bad SEO is and what I consider to be the top 10 practices that can negatively impact your rankings.

What is bad SEO?
Practices that are unethical, outdated or are outside the boundaries of Google webmaster guidelines are considered as BAD, thus the term ‘bad SEO’. While SEO is about optimizing your website for search engines, bad SEO can generate the opposite results.
So, which are these techniques that can hurt your rankings and most importantly what you should do to avoid them.

#1 Duplicate Content
Last week I wrote a post about writing SEO friendly content and the first tip was to make sure that your content is unique and original. In the case of bad SEO, you need to avoid publishing duplicate content on your website.
Non-unique content is not good for SEO. The main reason is that if search engines already have the same content in their index, there is absolutely no reason to index your web page since it has nothing new to offer.
If you need to have some duplicate content on your website because it is useful for your readers or because of the nature of your business, you should “no index and no follow” those pages so that they do not have a negative impact on your SEO.

#2 Keyword Stuffing
Repeating the same keywords over and over again not because they are useful in the text but because you are supposed to optimize your copy, is a very bad SEO practice.
Not only it will discourage your visitors from interacting or reading the content but it is also a signal for search engines that you are trying to manipulate (trick) their algorithms.
Mentioning your keywords in the title, description, opening paragraph and a couple of more times naturally in the text is enough.

#3 Guest posting for links
Last year a lot of people insisted that a secure way to get back links to your website was through guest posting. While guest posting can be a great way to do that, if done cheaply and wrongly, can damage your rankings.
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#4 Accepting low quality guest posts
You can feature new writers on your website and publish content written by others provided that it is original, relevant and useful for your audience. If the above rules are not met, then it’s better not to publish anything at all.
Publishing new content on a regular basis is a good SEO practice but it is also important to keep a balance between content produced from the website and content offered to the website in exchange for a link in the author bio.

#5 Cloaking / Invisible Text
Cloaking (hiding the real destination of a link) and showing different versions of a page to crawlers and users was a common practice in the past but not anymore. Using such techniques now is actually a very bad practice.
You should only keep one version of a page for both search engine crawlers and users and ensure that users can differentiate between website content and ads.

#6 Too many ads above the fold
Yes, that’s bad SEO since Google punishes websites that have many ads above the part of a page that is visible without scrolling (above the fold). If you suddenly saw a decrease in traffic then you should check if you were affected by the page layout algorithm.

#7 Paid links (of all kinds)
Building a successful website or blog takes time and needs a lot of patience and hard work to create the content and get those valuable natural backlinks. If instead of doing that you prefer to take shortcuts, you may see temporary success at the beginning and soon enough huge failure.
Buying links for any kind it a bad practice and something that Google will find out (sooner or later) and most probably you will end up losing your rankings and will need to try even harder to achieve something good online.
#8 Not using Google Webmaster Tools
Google developed the webmaster tools in order to establish better communication with webmasters. There is a ton of information you can get about your website and a lot of tools to help you understand how to improve your SEO and rankings in Google.
You can check for things like bad links, crawl errors, duplicate titles and descriptions and much more.

#9 Having a lot of outgoing links
It’s not only the incoming links that can damage your website but also the outgoing links. Websites that have a lot of outgoing links without using the ‘nofollow’ tag can be considered as link farms or paid directories.
In general you should ‘nofollow’ any links in ads, comments and websites that you don’t trust fully.
#10 Slow or unavailable websites
Your website should load in less than 4-5 seconds and should be available 24/7 all the time. Anything that does not comply with the above rules, it’s considered by me as bad SEO practice.
A good hosting provider is very important for having 24/7 availability and a modern software (like WordPress) can help you build fast websites that load within the accepted range.
Conclusion
What is more important for website success these days is to follow good SEO practices that are ethical, based on Google standards and up to date with the latest developments of ranking algorithms. Practices of the past such as keyword stuffing, cloaking, massive link building and banner stuffing are a thing of the past and should definitely be avoided.

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Juxtified:
This is enlightening, thanks. Just created my blog recently by myself recently though I'm no tech expert.
Can you please throw more light on how to link quality websites?

there are so many ways to get quality backlinks but the most important one is to find the one that suits you most, this question has been answered here with great tutorials on SEO:
http://nct.com.ng/Forum-SEO-Talks

Hello Nairalanders, I am Dealwap, the founder of Naija Coders Team(www.nct.com.ng). Today i will be taking my time to explain to you some SEO mistakes you should avoid if you want to rank higher in Search Engine.

Please kindly follow me gently and ensure you digest every single piece of information in this tutorial.

Some years back i created a blog for sharing informations relating to supporting bloggers with useful tutorials to help them succeed, you know what i did? I paid a website to get huge backlinks directed to my website but unfortunately, after some months i noticed my blog has suddenly disappeared from search engine.

I became so shocked to as what may be the sudden cause of the disappearance then i traced back my steps to how i started the SEO settings of my blog, i suddenly remembered the Backlinking i paid for.

After critical analysis i beame aware that most of the sites i was linked to were sites which has been flagged as SPAM by google.

Then an old saying came to my mind which says, ''Birds Of A Feather Flocks Together.'' Alas! I got it figured out contacted those webmasters to remove my website link from their database.

I never did got my site fully back so i had to shut down the blog and find something else to do but i learnt my lesson in a bitter way .

Lets leave out the story but am sure you have gained one thing or the other the main you should understand is bad neighbours will affect SEO badly!!!

know the type of links you allow search engine to follow on your website.

Never buy backlinks i repeat, never buy backlinks! It is very harmful to the growth of your site. Link to quality websites and let them link back to you, if by any means you want to allow guest post, thoroughly check the guest website to ensure it is not violating google's privacy as this can risk the health of your blog.


Thank you for taking your time to read this! I hope you learn from this please share the post to your friends let them benefit. Thanks!

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You see, the primary reason
blogs fail isn’t
because their content is bad or
their keywords are poorly
optimized or
popular bloggers are ignoring
them. It’s because
they are publishing what
they want to say and not
thinking for a moment
about what anyone wants
to read.

If you’re writing about a topic
lots of people want to
know more about, you can
do almost everything wrong,
and your blog will grow
anyway. The opposite
is also true. If you’re the only
person in the world who cares
about your topic, then you can
do everything right, and your
blog will stagnate and die.

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Nice article you got there.

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opeyemix:
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opeyemix:
Thanks boss.... What about the robot.txt what will i paste there?


Also i would i have your email or digit

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opeyemix:
your explanation isnt simple. i am talking about blogger not php.


how do i create?
how do i upload it to google webmaster tool

just assume i know nothing about sitemap....so plz explain better thanks

Oh! If that's the case, then visit: http://nct.com.ng/Thread-How-To-Add-Blogger-Sitemap-Xml-To-Google-Webmaster-Tools-And-Bing

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opeyemix:
I have been trying to do my sitemap but its not working. Maybe am doing it wrong. Can you plz kindly give me step to step guid on how to do the sitemapping on robot.txt and how to put it in google webmaster tools?

do you have the sitemap created already?

After creating it upload it to your public_html then login to your Google search Console>>Sitemap>>you should see where to inform google about your SITEMAP...make sure you use a pc

Okay.

Nothing.

[url=nct.com.ng]NCT Forum[/url]  SEO best practices Techniques Explained

Search Engine Optimization is an art which continues to evolve and improve and if you want to be serious about keeping your site top notch you must ensure that you keep up to date with the most recent SEO practices. The following is a list of modern practices compiled by [url=nct.com.ng]NCT Forum[/url].

The Usefulness of H1 Tags
H1s are important for users but not necessarily for search engines anymore.
They are very important for establishing information hierarchy and helping with algorithmically determined semantics, but they seem to be less important for search engine optimization.

The Usefulness of Nofollow
We recommend using rel= for thwarting would be spammers of user generated content. You can also use it as an incentive for creating active users.

The Usefulness of the Canonical Tag
The canonical tag is still young and is only useful as a hint to the search engines to prevent duplicate content. It is not the silver bullet that webmasters are looking for.

The Use of Alt text with Images
We recommend including alt text for all images on all publicly accessible pages. We also suggest adding images with good alt text to pages targeting competitive rankings. This is an essential thing which you should be doing anyway.
The Use of the Meta Keywords tag
If it is not a problem to let your competitors know your keywords and you are trying to rank highly in, the Meta Keywords tag can be useful. Note: This is different from what we have recommend in the past.

The Use of Parameter Driven URLs (I.E. www.example.com/index.php?option=com_conent§iondid=0)
We don’t recommend using them. Mask parameters by creating Search Engine Friendly URLS

The Usefulness of Footer Links
Use footer links sparingly. We recommend no more than 25 relevant internal navigational links.
We have seen many examples of Google penalties tied directly to abusive footer links (that "magically" lifted upon removal of the keyword anchor text stuffed footers). Manipulative links in footers are easily detected algorithmically, and appear to have automated penalties applied to them by Google.

The Use of Javascript and Flash on Websites
Do not use Javascript or Flash for any navigation important to search engines. Use pure CSS menus!

The Use of 301 Redirects
Use 301 redirects as the best way to redirect webpages but warn that they do have disadvantages.

Blocking pages from Search Engines
The Meta Robots tag (noindex, follow) is generally a better option than robots.txt. Robots.txt files are useful but should be used sparingly and only if a meta robots tag is not an option.
Google Search Wiki's Affect on Rankings
We don’t recommend spending any time or resources on search wiki.

The effect of Negative Links from “Bad Link Neighborhoods”
Link neighborhoods are a real thing but the affect of links from bad neighborhoods on good neighborhoods is minimal if the links are not reciprocal.
The Importance of Traffic on Rankings
The metric of visitors to a given site is not used to help determine rankings.

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Blogs are nothing but a internet presentation of magazines . They are good platform to present you thoughts or whatever you want to share with the people on the web. Being a good blogger brings you recognition and also provides you with options to generate income from your blog through advertisement. However,  starting a weblog is confusing to most of the people. With this simple guide i can help you guys to get a basic idea on what you require to start a blog and other requisite.

[size=medium]What You Require To Start A Blog[/size]
Time
Before starting a blog you should understand that to make a blog popular and drive more visitors you will have to provide proper attention to it. You cannot simply disappear after posting an article and come back later after a week. If Your blog is being regularly updated chances are that you will get better search engine ranking.

Money
For starting a blog you don’t need huge investment. If you are going to use self hosted Blogging Platforms(WordPress,Joomla) you will need to buy web hosting service.It won’t cost more than $10 per month. You will also have to pay for your domain name. This is a yearly payment. The price would depends upon the Domain name Registrar and Type of domain you chose. For a .COM domain it wouldn’t cost more than $10 per year. Once you start to get more traffic you will have to move to a better hosting options which would cost little bit higher. But with the increasing traffic you can also make money by displaying advertisement.

Patience
Just like any other job lot of patience is required to be successful in blogging field. Do not get frustrated by seeing no traffic during initial days of your blogging career. It takes weeks to months effort to see a slight movement in your  blog’s traffic. Imagine how difficult it is to study about each sand one by one, Same is the condition with blogs and websites. There are thousands of websites being launched each second. Remember this, It is your attitude that is going to make you a winner not your talent.

Blogging Platform
The first and most important thing that require for starting a blog is a blogging platform. Blogging platform is a service that helps to bring your blog online. Take email for example, if you want to register an email account you need some one who provides you Email service.Google provides you an platform called Gmail which is a web application for sending and receiving Email. Just like Email, you need an web application to write and publish blogs and it is called blogging platforms.
Best Blogging Platform
There are numerous blogging platforms available on the internet. Based on the popularity and options to customize i have chose two popular Blogging platform to share with you guys.
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1. WordPress
WordPress is the worlds most popular blogging platform. It is a free blogging software used by thousands of Bloggers. I suggest you to use WordPress as your Blogging Platform. I use WordPress to power this website. With WordPress you could do lot of things, From writing blogs to creating an E-commerce website. [/list]

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2. Blogger
Blogger is a blogging platform provided by the tech giant Google. I would not suggest you to use this as your blogging platform if you are serious about blogging. Blogger is simple to use but have limited option. To start a blogger blog you need nothing but a google account, the one that you use to log into your Gmail or Youtube account. But i would strongly recommend you to use WordPress. Though WordPress is little bit difficult in comparison with Blogger you would thank me for insisting you to use WordPress later once you get to know both of them.[/list]

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Buying a new laptop computer can be both frustrating and expensive.

Technology is growing with times, a sign of transformation. Same can be in computer world, previously we used to be happy with PC but now the whole criteria are changed as people are upgrading themselves for using Laptops. Recent years showed advancement in Laptops and the reason behind increased purchasing trends is its portability which makes it easy to use and moving from one place to another without applying efforts. So people prefer the use of Laptops over Personal Computers because of several reasons including upcoming technology, portability, etc. But, often we get baffled when it comes to purchasing new Laptops.
Often, we are deceived by purchasing the system which is not self-reliable to use. So, before buying a new Laptop,
things to consider before buying a new laptop are below:

1. Specifications:
This is the initiative point one should keep in mind before buying a new Laptop. Technical specifications include system’s hardware and software ingredients which is the basic things. One should check out the RAM capacity, Hard Disk, Processor, Video Card, etc which ascertain a Laptop’s reliability or otherwise. If its capacity is low, then you will obviously suffer fluctuations like frequent hanging up of system and so on. So, it’s recommended to go with such master piece which is derived with at least 4 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Disk, Dual Core i5 processor including one Graphic Card. So, before purchasing any Laptop, put this into consideration.

2. Structure and Durability:
The next priority to keep in mind is Laptop’s structure which includes size, durability, weight and so on. The main purpose for selecting net book is its portability and if the size for same is lumpy, then there’s no catch. So you should see whether the device is handy or not. You should also think of its weight; normally, a system weighing about two kilogrammes is pretty to determine the reliability and portability.
These two factors even determine the durability of system. Users with harsh working tendency always need that device to endure surprising shocks. So, the laptop must have extra tough metal covered, to ensure no internal damages are done to the hard disk, processor, etc. Thus, if you are completely satisfied with the structure of a Laptop, then go for it.

3. Battery Life:
The Battery Life is directly or indirectly the first need of any user. If the device’s battery system is of poor quality, then one will face many inevitable problems. The very first thing to do as a customer is, first ask about the Laptop’s battery life. So one should check and enquire about maximum support the Laptop’s battery will give. Standard need is 10 hours or as per usage.

4. Price and Budget:
Every person has its own budget, and one should buy Laptops bearing same in mind. For instance, if your budget is 25, 000 and you are dreaming of a device which costs 50, 000, this is calling for avoidable debts. So, in such case, you should concentrate on main functions needed for your use. In cheap price you can’t enjoy latest technology but can surely seek out functions which are basic and required one.

5. Other Specifications:
Other things include connectivity, user guide, display resolution, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB ports, etc. These are the required specifications which users should keep and things to consider before buying a new laptop.

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