Comments on: 5 Surefire Ways to Annoy the Search Engines

By: Nayanna Chakrbarty

Nayanna Chakrbarty — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:58:07 +0000

Hello Nick,

I agree with Anne 100% that we do need reminders otherwise frustration can lead to temptation.

Besides this, Katherine also has mentioned a very valid point and as a creative freelance writer, duplicate content does pose a problem. At times, I don’t really know what can be done but tearfully bid my original content a silent good-bye.

By: Dave Abernethy

Dave Abernethy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:08:43 +0000

And throwaway domains, low value directories help lead to the 50000 links for $5 brigade SEO offers that we all love so much….

By: Katherine Andes

Katherine Andes — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:48:54 +0000

I found that content I had written for one client was scraped and picked up by someone else in the same industry. Google indexed both pages; but, luckily put my client’s page on top. It’s annoying. Ya try to do the right thing and create original content and then someone swipes it …

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:57:57 +0000

Thanks Nick, Sometimes it good to have someone repeat what you already know. Helps one to avoid temptation.

By: Paul Sherland

Paul Sherland — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:54:04 +0000

It’s not nice to fool Mother Google! Excellent points Nick — especially the one about no magic number of keywords. I’ve heard about blogging editors that flag a blog post for using a keyword more than five times. It’s not that simple and I doubt that Google’s text analytics people rely on such black and white rules. Thanks for posting this info!

By: tony

tony — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:17:28 +0000

Its always good to go white hat!

By: Jj brown

Jj brown — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:42:42 +0000

Great writeup, keep up the good work buddy!

By: Mike Rohrig

Mike Rohrig — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:32:31 +0000

I know a guy who had a site getting 8000 visitors a day. He replicated the site exactly which was easy to do with WordPress. The second site actually ranked higher than the first site. At least in that case duplication didn’t hurt him. What was interesting is that the second site didn’t get as many clicks on his ads.