Unethical SEO is becoming less popular as search engines become smarter. Here’s 10 SEO techniques to avoid. All of these techniques are deemed ’blackhat SEO’.
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What I find most amusing about this post is the fact the ad block under the content is advertising paid links
@darkseo There are paid advertisements all over the website. I don’t get your point.
@borsodas Thanks for your feedback! I suppose that misspelling can be can be helpful, but in my opinion it’s only a matter of time until search engines begin to pick up on these things. Either way, it’s ’unethical’.
mispelling a client’s brand name is unethical?hmm...
@paisley If you are doing so to attempt to get traffic from those who misspell the name, yes, I would consider that unethical. If you are doing so because you don’t want to interfere with their rankings (for example, your site showing up when someone searches for your clients) then you probably don’t care about the rankings for that keyword anyway.
if you are a SEO and have business client and people misspell their name or their branded, trademarked names and you are NOT adding common misspellings then you are doing your client a disservice.. which could be considered unethical...<div></div><div>if you are doing mispellings to get someone else’s traffic, that is unethical...</div><div></div><div>if you are doing it on registered or trademark terms you don’t own it’s fraud and possible copyright infringement.</div>
@paisley Note how I put ’Misspellings of Common Words’. Did you read the post, or just decide that it sucked on your own? I never mentioned anything to do with trademarked names.
misleading, not entirely accurate, a waste of 5 mins.
I stopped counting after the 4th thing you had wrong..