Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Don’t try Webmasters’ Tricks on Online Shopping Website

Your online shopping website enables you to sell your products and services. That is why your online shopping website should rank high on search engines. But, ranking high on search engines does not mean devising unethical ways to deceive search engines. You should never try webmasters’ tricks to get higher page ranks for your online shopping website.
Using these tricks can really harm than your search engine rankings. Webmasters use fraudulent tricks to give your online shopping website a higher page rank. However, these tricks usually do more harm than good. And at times, your online shopping website can get blacklisted by search engines.
Here is a list of some of the tricks used by the webmasters. Try to avoid these tricks.
• Webmasters usually go for keyword stuffing. They place a whole host of keyword phrases at one place. These keyword phrases are more often than not written in a smaller font. Such a keyword stuffing is reckoned as spam by most of the search engines.
• Using hidden text within a web page is yet another trick used by the fraudulent webmasters. The hidden text is of the same color as used in the background of the web page. This makes the text invisible to the visitors, but it is visible to search engines. This is considered as a deceitful tactic, and search engines can make you pay for this.
• Creating Doorway Pages (also known as Zebra Pages, Bridge Pages, Jump Pages, and Gateway Pages) is one of the many faulty tricks used by some mendacious webmasters. Doorway pages refer to the web pages specially created to pull the search engine visitors to your online shopping website. Webmasters create a web page and infuse certain keywords in it. But, the fact is that this web page does not exist in the website. It is created to act as a doorway to your online shopping website to fetch more traffic. However, search engines detest any kind of doorway pages.
• Cloaking is another deceitful trick employed by mendacious webmasters. Cloaking connotes concealing the web page content. Webmasters give different sets of web pages to visitors and search engines. But, search engines hate cloaking.

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