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Black Hat SEO: Doorway Pages Technique
In order to get higher search rankings, website owners are tempted to apply black hat SEO on their sites. There are many black hat techniques that you can use to optimize your site. One of the known methods is the creation of Doorway Pages.
So what are Doorway Pages and how is it done? Doorway Pages are also called ghost pages or fake pages. They are used to get your page indexed easily by Google. There are invisible page intended just for optimization. Usually, it is just a simple HTML page filled with keywords and phrases that targets internet crawlers and engine spiders. With keyword rich pages, there is a big tendency that web spiders will mistake it as relevant and credible for a certain topic.
However, internet crawlers and search engine spiders are more intelligent and intuitive these days. As such, spiders are now ignoring doorway pages and getting your sites banned because of use. Though there is still a chance for your site to get high ranks out of this endeavor, it probably won’t stay as is for long.
Having doorway pages will necessitate you to update every keyword and phrase you use that is related to the hottest keywords of the day. This will include Meta tags, which you need to fill up in higher density. Doorway pages are very tiring to maintain then. But if you’re willing to do that work on doorway pages, why not use up your energy on the correct SEO techniques and optimize your site in an ethical manner.
Since website owners often have dilemmas over their site’s lack of keyword dense content and effective Meta tags, they will be tempted to buy a software which will aid them in creating doorway pages. My only advice is, instead of wasting money on a strategy that will only lead your site to banishment, the best thing to do is to hire someone who specializes on SEO to optimize your site. Aside from assuring yourself of safe, quality optimization services, you will also be saving you and your site form a whole lot of trouble.
Search Engines
What is a search engine? Simply put, it is an internet tool designed to search for information in the World Wide Web (WWW). Did you know that the very first tool that was utilized to scan through the Internet for specific information was named ARCHIE? It was created and originally implemented back in 1990 by Alan Emtage, J. Peter Deutsch and Bill Heelan. ARCHIE search engine works by simply contacting a list of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archive on a regular basis. By 1991, Gopher was created by Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota. After that came several other search engines. Now, we have the convenience of using search engine tools for our research. However, among all those available, there are certain search engines that stand out among net users. I will mention later on the top search engine tools being utilized. For the moment, let see how web search engine works.
Search engines operates by following an order of interrelated tasks. First among them is web crawling. Web crawling is a program the browses the World Wide Web in a methodical automated manner. The web crawler that performs the act is also called ants, bots, web spider, web robot and many more. The second task is indexing. This is the portion wherein the crawler collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, physics and computer science. The third and the last task of search engines is web search query. This query is what a user enters into the web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs. The search engines gather data based on the query posed and presents them to the Net user to look into. Having gone over that, let us now discuss the top search engine tools today. First on my list is Yahoo. I prefer to use Yahoo Internet portal because it provides news, email, music, shopping, web search, fantasy sports, and many other online products and services that make it convenient and useful for consumers and businesses. Second on my list is Bing, which was launched on June 01, 2009. I personally like Bing because it has a feature of daily changing background images. But then again, there is little difference to be recognized about the functionality of search engines. They all work great; it’s just that their features differ. And bottom line is, the effectiveness of the search will mostly depend on the type of key works you input on the search bar.
On page and off page optimization
I’m sure that you’ve come across the terms “on page” and “off page” optimization before. In this blog, I would like to point out the important facts regarding each of these two Search engine optimization techniques. First we start with on page. This is actually the first step of search engine optimization and basically involves the structure and content of a website. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing usually maintain a huge database of websites which a user can access by typing specific keyword on the search box located in every single search engine page. To manage this database and keep it organized and responsive to search queries, search engines rely on programs called robots and spiders. These programs crawl across the web, from site to site, inspecting and indexing each site as they visit. And in doing such, robots follow a unique set of criterions mandated by search engines. To be index in the right category, the correct page structure and strategy should be applied. Here are some On page structures that site owners must pay careful attention to for optimization.
• Alt Tags
• Image, multimedia, content placement
• Title tag placement
• Meta tag description
• Keywords In url names
Having done all of the on page optimization activities, its now time to market your website. This is where off page optimization is called for. Off page optimization is a search engine optimization strategy that is done externally to the webpage. Gone are the days that television and radio are the only mediums of advertising. Off page optimization involves social bookmarking, press releases, directory submission and many more. Through this, the site gets more traffic directed its way and consequently gets higher page ranking and search engine visibility. It is clear why off page is important. It is another way to make your website popular.
The Basics of Link Building
Link building is essential when one is working on gaining high search engine rankings. It is considered as one of the most important activities as far as online marketing is concerned. It is the key to an effective website promotion strategy and it can help you work towards increasing website popularity. Link popularity is the number of links from other websites towards your site. The more quality links your website gets, the more will the search engines trust it. However, if link building is something that is new to you, here are some techniques that the experts consider.
• Create original articles. This is the best way to provide information about your online business. The content must be unique and as much as possible relevant to the products and services that your business has to offer. Honesty plays an integral role when it comes to creating articles.
• Create quality links with quality sites. These sites are not the ones where you can get links easily but rather increase your rankings. It must be also relevant to your business. These quality sites are usually visible in the search engines.
• It is also suggested that you analyze your rival’s domains. You will get the list of strong websites that have already linked to their domain and may link to your site as well. Tools and software application for such analysis are available over the internet.
• Create blogs and make sure to update it regularly. This will create an opportunity to ask links for your website and are often favored by search engines.
These are just some of the techniques that the experts use. Link building is one tedious process that requires careful planning and proper execution. Choosing the appropriate methods in getting quality links will make your link building strategies more effective.