There was a thread in the syndk8 forums discussing the footprints some less eperienced black hat SEOs are likely to leave behind when producing their sites. The thread was much brader than this post as it went into discussing the details like online privacy, legal aspects and so on, but I decided to do a quick summary of a sort in the form of a not-to-do list.
So, if you’re in your right mind don’t do this:
1. Use the same old tired feckin template from site to site – heck I can almost put the name to the face already
2. Once you har of a new technique, get stuck on it and use nothing else and do not innovate anything
3. Do not invent anything to make your sites look more legitimate, or just invent something so stupid and unnatural that Matt Cutts’ cat can tell it’s scraped spam
4. Interlink all your sites into one giant spam network yelling Google ban us all
5. And of course, generally, don’t ever ever use your brain when creating your sites – just repeat what you have seen/heard of even if you didn’t really get to the point of an idea.
6. Use something unusual in your css classes names (thanks UKGimp for this one)
7. Use the same IP for all your sites and the same whois information (thanks again UKGimp)
If anybody has anything useful to add to this list feel free to either post in the forum thread or add your comments here.
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