Four SEO Tricks to Lower Your Search Engine Rankings
- Link Building via Service -When done in a genuine way, building links between sites is a great way to raise your listings. When you hire a service to do it, you have a problem, because you lose control. When you give up control, especially to a service, you run the very serious risk of finding yourself linked with a site that is considered to be in a "Bad Neighborhood," which means that being linked to them will actually lower your rankings seriously.
- Add Lots of Keywords - If your site's META tag list seems like it came from the dictionary, then you will find your brilliant strategy to increase your rankings has lowered them instead. A similar trick is done with titles on a site. This technique, more commonly known as "Title Stacking," is another way of adding more keywords for the search engines to index, and they have caught on. Avoid both of these like the black plague.
- Doorway Page - This one sounds like it may be a good idea. You can make a lot of sub pages that direct to the information that your user wants to know, they get the information, and you get a lot of pages that can help to increase your rankings on a multitude of sets of key words. But this technique just makes most search engines upset, because these gateway sites have very little content on them, and their primary goal is to re-direct. I would suggest that you avoid this at all costs.
- Borrowing Content - If you own content from another, similar site, or you are just getting content for the site from an article bank, you can run into these serious problems. Sites that are deemed to be using nothing but copy and paste content will run into problems with the engines right away, so if you are going to re-use content it should only be a small percentage of your site, and never on the main page. Also, as a side note, if you steal someone else's content, you can end up getting your site removed wholesale. You also run the risk of getting sued.