You have read some of the most common Blackhat SEO techniques in the previous post, now we will discuss other "desperate" measures employed by Blackhat SEOs in trying to gain Page Rank dominion:
Cloaking
When you intentionally manipulated your site so that a web crawler could see it differently from an actual user, you are using a cloaking technique. This is also similar to creating doorway pages that redirect users to another page. Cloaking techniques are used to get a really high ranking in search engine results. It is, however, a direct violation of the Google Guidelines which specifically says not to "deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users." No one is excempted in this rule and even big companies are liable to become penalized if they violate this, like how Google imposed a penalty to BMW Germany for cloaking their site.
Code Swapping
In code swapping, a certain page is optimized so that it would get a high ranking, but once in does, the content of the page or the site is partially or completely altered. This is also considered as a form of cloaking or user-deception.
Wikipedia Spamming
As we all know, Wikepedia has an open-edit ability. Some people take advantage of that feature by shamelessly and spuriously peppering the site with their links that are sometimes even unrelated to the wiki entry.
Page Hijacking
Yep. Planes are not the only ones who get hijacked, your internet page could be too. Page hijacking is defined by wikipedia as a form of spam indexing which is produced through "creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites" or also the competitor site.
Scraper Sites
These are also commonly known as Made For Adsense sites. These sites or blogs are usually optimized to get a high or decent ranking in the search engine pages but the main purpose of these sites is to get users to click on the ads that are found on the site. The content of the page are usually just "scraped" or copied from other sites, and usually, they redirect users to other sites. An example of these are blogs or pages that have a proliferation of "Click here to watch live video streaming" links.
There are plenty of other SEO methods that are devised to cunningly trick both users and search engine bugs and maybe some techniques still remain undisclosed. But we can be assured that any attempt to poison the SEO system will be appropriately answered with counter measures. Good people will reign over scheming bad people - well, almost always. :)
Cloaking
When you intentionally manipulated your site so that a web crawler could see it differently from an actual user, you are using a cloaking technique. This is also similar to creating doorway pages that redirect users to another page. Cloaking techniques are used to get a really high ranking in search engine results. It is, however, a direct violation of the Google Guidelines which specifically says not to "deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users." No one is excempted in this rule and even big companies are liable to become penalized if they violate this, like how Google imposed a penalty to BMW Germany for cloaking their site.
Code Swapping
In code swapping, a certain page is optimized so that it would get a high ranking, but once in does, the content of the page or the site is partially or completely altered. This is also considered as a form of cloaking or user-deception.
Wikipedia Spamming
As we all know, Wikepedia has an open-edit ability. Some people take advantage of that feature by shamelessly and spuriously peppering the site with their links that are sometimes even unrelated to the wiki entry.
Page Hijacking
Yep. Planes are not the only ones who get hijacked, your internet page could be too. Page hijacking is defined by wikipedia as a form of spam indexing which is produced through "creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites" or also the competitor site.
Scraper Sites
These are also commonly known as Made For Adsense sites. These sites or blogs are usually optimized to get a high or decent ranking in the search engine pages but the main purpose of these sites is to get users to click on the ads that are found on the site. The content of the page are usually just "scraped" or copied from other sites, and usually, they redirect users to other sites. An example of these are blogs or pages that have a proliferation of "Click here to watch live video streaming" links.
There are plenty of other SEO methods that are devised to cunningly trick both users and search engine bugs and maybe some techniques still remain undisclosed. But we can be assured that any attempt to poison the SEO system will be appropriately answered with counter measures. Good people will reign over scheming bad people - well, almost always. :)
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