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Getting Banned by the Search Engines

SEO – CHEATING

As you endeavor into the world of SEO, you will come across many tools and search engine optimization programs that will enable you to quickly generate pages, scrape other sites, and in general violate the terms of service with all or most search engines.

As a general rule, anything that is scraping other sites is a direct violation of most countries laws. You are in essence stealing copy-written work. More than just getting banned from the search engines can happen when you go this route.

Specific software will generate thousands of pages from your chosen keywords and it’s quite easy to generate a lot of traffic with these black hat methods, TEMPORARILY. For long term success cheating is not the answer in regards to raising your search engine rankings and PR.

We can’t stress highly enough to do your homework and learn how to be a successful webmaster with out cheating. You will get caught and all of your “hard” work will be for naught.

Your website should always follow the first rule of content. Write for people, not machines.