What can cause your website to get banned?
There are many onpage ranking factors AND offpage ranking factors that can cause Google to ban your website. Today, we’ll focus on only the onpage things that can cause your site to get banned.
Before I begin, I want you to know that many websites still get away with doing some of these things. They DO NOT help your rankings and are simply a waste of time, so don’t try them. Sooner or later Google will catch up to these websites and will remove them. It’s just not worth the risk, when doing them doesn’t help your ranking to begin with.
Hidden Text
Hidden Text is simply text that users can’t see when they visit your webpage. Some webmasters will do this so that they can add keywords throughout their webpage without it interfering with what the visitors actually see. Yet, the search engines can still see hidden text.
For example, let’s say you have a white background on your website. If you wanted to hide text, you would simply make the color of your text white (#FFFFFF) and users couldn’t see it.
Alt image tag spamming
This is another way that people will try to cram keywords into their website, allowing search
engines to see their keywords, but not allowing visitors to notice any difference in their
website
Meta Tag Stuffing
What I’m referring to here is when people throw in thousands of the same exact keyword into
their meta tags.
For example, the following website is trying to rank well for “tents”.
<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=”tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies,
tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies,
tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies,
tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents,tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies,
tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents tents, TENTS, Tents, tents tents tent supplies,
tents, tents tent, tent, Tent, TENTS, tents, Tents”>
This is obviously ridiculous. Google doesn’t use Meta Tags when ranking websites. GoogleWILL penalize it, but it WILL NOT help you… so, why would anyone do something like this?
Stay away from it.
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