Archive for the 'Blackhat SEO' Category

Being Ethical is About Complying

As I blog about doorway pages, again I was faced with the ethical side of search engine optimization.
The more I think of it, the more I think it is out of context.
Ethics in SEO has nothing to do morality, nor there is a group of people who govern how all search engines should behave and […]

How to Make Doorway Pages Work

Doorway pages have gained bad names because the way they cheat search engines into believing their pages are worth the rankings.
Why doorway pages have become ineffective
This method of obtaining search engine rankings has become more ineffective nowadays and many people have stopped using it. The reason is simple. While page content is still used to […]

Doorway Page Delivery Mechanisms

Doorways pages are named appropriately because they are the bridge or doorway to search engines. There are many ways to deliver doorway pages. Most of them are being mass produced with software tools.
Here are some methods to delivery doorway pages:
1. Static doorway pages
The most traditional or low-tech way to deliver these pages is to create […]

Doorway Pages - What Are They?

Doorway pages are web pages created for spamdexing — a term used for the act of spamming the index of a search engine.
How is it done?
Introduction to doorway pages
Webmasters who create a doorway page insert results for particular keyword phrases with the purpose of sending you to a different page. If the page redirects visitors […]

Today’s Tidbits - 11 July 2006

Google is now officially a verb and will be listed in the Oxford Dictionary, joining Kleenex, Xerox, TiVo, FedEx and other brand names that are obiquitos and used daily.

Aaron Wall has posted an interview with Dan Kamer, a search engine cloaking software creator (Kloakit). The interview reveals cases when cloaking is necessary, among other things. […]