Top 7 Unnatural Link Prevention Tips for Links Pointing From Your Website

Another great share for you from my EzineArticals Newsletter: From: Vanessa, Editorial Manager. Ensure your website is working for you and not against you with these 7 unnatural link prevention methods! 1. Monitor and Block Spam: User-generated content in forums, blogs, guestbook pages, etc. can be a blessing and a curse. High-quality interactions, comments, and reviews are always rewarded; however, user-generated content is prone to spam. Eradicate spam using prevention tools (e.g., spam blocking plugins) as well as actively monitor your platform (e.g., review links from guest comments and remove their links if you've found poor quality). 2. Avoid Creating Parked Pages: Parked pages or parked domains lack quality content. Typically, these pages don't have user-oriented content because the parked pages either reserve a domain name, redirect the user, or the registrant's ownership of the page has expired. Superficial use of parked pages to force unnatural page rank by creating several parked pages and then redirecting users to a main website is abhorred. Ensure quality content is on your website, regularly renew your domain registration, or create a plan of action to close out your registration and properly redirect users from former websites. 3. Own Your Website: Free Hosts and Dynamic DNS Providers are prone to spammy content. Even if your pages on these free hosting websites are of the highest caliber, the sheer amount of spam that shares your free host will pull down your rank (and your ability to be searched by users). Users, publishers, and even search engines are more inclined to trust (and reward) website owners who have a vested interest in their website. 4. Consider a User-Oriented Design: From navigation layout to aesthetic appeal, each page on your website (and any links from your website) should target user experience. Invest in the design of your website. Avoid affiliate pages, doorway pages and cookie cutter websites that may negatively impact user experience and therefore your page rank. 5. Perpetuate Quality: Content that's thin, derivative, spun, copied and/or even plagiarized offers little to no added value for users. We can't say this enough: Always provide engaging, quality content for the user. 6. Don't Sit on a Hack: If any or all of your pages have been hacked to display spammy content or links by a third party, then take action to fix it right away! Clean up and secure your website to protect your users and your brand. 7. Cease Spamming and Black Hat SEO: If you practice spinning, cloaking, scraping, hiding text, keyword stuffing, egregious redirecting, and other unnatural, deceptive, or manipulative outbound linking, then you're contributing to the creation of pure spam. Stop these toxic methods immediately and begin building a website and platform based on quality measures that target user experience. Cheers.