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Search Engine Optimization Consultants Warn against Over Optimization

by Piyush Mistri SR SEO EXECUTIVE

Google rules the world of Internet. Majority of the SEO companies optimize a website in accordance with Google policies. Researches indicate that 98% of all keyword search activity is controlled by Google, Yahoo, Bing and AOL. Amongst these, Google enjoys the lead with nearly 65% share of searches. If you want your website to attract traffic, you need to score high in Google search results page. You cannot afford to neglect Google optimization. However, website SEO consultants advise against the overuse of SEO tactics. Over-optimization of your site may lead to ban of the site on Google.

Online business, small or large, should refrain from over optimization of the site. SEO strategies can be learnt easily. However, it is not possible to know exactly, when and in what proportion you need to apply them. Having an In-house team of
SEO professionals is not enough. You team should be well-versed with all the aspects of SEO. They should not resort to Black-hat SEO practices, knowingly or unknowingly. It is advisable to take the help of Website SEO consultants before optimizing the site for search engines. This may prove helpful to prevent banning of your site on Google.

Search engine optimization consultants strictly warn against the use of certain practices. Some of these practices can be as given below :

* Spamming: SEO services should never resort to spamming search engines for higher rankings. Irrelevant use of certain words or phrases for the manipulation of search results for those terms should be sternly avoided. Website SEO consultants believe that Google may ban the website otherwise.

* Multiple submission of the site: Search engine optimization consultants advise against the submission of sites many times. This hardly has any effect on the ranking. On the contrary, it leads to ban from Google.

* Cloaking: Site owners may program the site in a way that it returns different results to search engine spiders and different result to the web users. Such practices hinder accuracy in the search results page. Google may ban sites practicing these tricks.

* Hidden text or links: You should not resort to hidden text with keyword phrases; these are accessible to search engines spiders and not to the visitors. Search engine optimization consultants propagate that hidden content or links can be easily traced by search engines. They penalize the site for malpractices.

*Redirect pages: Redirect pages rank high. However, they hardly contain any content. They only contain links to other pages in the same family. Readers do not get the content they clicked on the page for. Website SEO consultants are against such manipulation of search results page.

Google has earned a good reputation amongst the web users. It does not encourage anything that may bring disgrace to its fame. A properly optimized site is of no use to the readers and to Google, unless it serves the purpose of the readers. Website SEO consultants advise site owners to keep the interest of the readers in mind. Merely optimizing a site to obtain high ranking is not appreciated by the web users and by Google. Malpractices for SEO purpose may lead to ban of the site from the search engine.


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About Piyush Mistri Committed     SR SEO EXECUTIVE

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Comments

Paula van Dun Magnate II   Retired
There is really not so much time you need to spend on SEO. I follow some basics like filling out meta tags even if the one like description has less value than in the old days from a seo point of view. However this tag is used by many search engines to present your site in search results. When the description is accurate and attractive more people will visit the site.
Other than that from time to time I add some text or I change it a bit. This works fine for me on standard site.
Where I have some problems with is finding a portal script that is seo friendly. I have tried some but have not been able to find one yet that meets my standards.
Nov 18th 2010 04:33   
James Bonham Committed   tweetsmaster
When it comes to search engine optimization, the single most important sentence that you will write for your website is the title tag of your main page. If you write it properly then you will have taken a big step towards getting your site well placed in search engine queries for your important keywords.
Dec 16th 2010 03:28   
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