| You should be able to find several indispensable facts | | | | request that they remove the link as the site may |
| about SEO in the following paragraphs. If there's at | | | | wind up discredited as a link farm or some such thing |
| least one fact you didn't know before, imagine the | | | | that you do not want to be associated with for fear |
| difference it might make. | | | | of being banned from many popular search engines |
| View the source of each and every page: is there | | | | with technology used to combat link farms. |
| JavaScript and CSS on the page? Remember that | | | | On a related subject, when you check your back |
| spiders may not index pages that have more than | | | | links, make sure that these links appear in legitimate |
| 10k or so of JavaScript or CSS embedded in them. | | | | places. If the site is completely dedicated to linking to |
| Spiders don?t enjoy getting tangled up in JavaScript. | | | | other sites and doesn?t seem to be a directory or |
| So as a general rule you should avoid putting out | | | | something similar you will want to get your link |
| prompts and alerts using JavaScript every time that | | | | removed as soon as possible. There is no time when |
| a page loads. Because of this rule, it is also wise to | | | | one link is worth the risk of being permanently |
| avoid link partners who do so on the pages that they | | | | banned from any popular search engine. Aside from |
| link to you from. If anything looks fishy, it probably is. | | | | the traffic that you will lose from that one search |
| CSS won?t give you many problems. If you are going | | | | engine, you may wind up ?red flagged? so to speak. |
| to use CSS, it is best to link to it from another | | | | It seems to be common practice among search |
| source. Create a separate CSS page and use the tag | | | | engines that if one finds faulty activity the rest seem |
| to work it into the head of your HTML. This method | | | | to find out soon afterwards. |
| will keep your file size down considerably, and since | | | | Overall, if it seems dodgy, leave it alone. It?s better |
| you will probably be using the same CSS on several | | | | to sacrifice one link in caution than to destroy your |
| pages, decrease your bandwidth usage. Normally a | | | | site?s rankings by accepting one you?re not sure of. |
| large quantity of CSS within the document isn?t | | | | There are hundreds of situations aside from link |
| indicative of any suspicious behavior on the part of | | | | farms that can and will give you trouble. It would be |
| the linker. If you feel that you are, indeed, suffering | | | | impossible to list every scam as there are people |
| from the fact that the site uses such an excessive | | | | who make their living (or seem to anyway) in |
| proportion of CSS on the page itself, suggest to the | | | | creating and executing these scams. Whenever there |
| webmaster that he/she may want to create an | | | | is a new form of ?SEO? technology that ?can?t fail,? |
| external CSS document and link to it in his/her | | | | you should watch out because it is almost |
| header. | | | | guaranteed to blow up in your face. The only truly |
| Check that you're still on the domain you clicked on a | | | | powerful and guaranteed method of SEO is to make |
| link to, and you haven't moved to another site or a | | | | your site valuable to your visitors and then let it fall |
| subdomain. Some people will move you to another | | | | where it may in the realm of the search engine. |
| domain while telling that?s their site and your link is | | | | It is difficult, after you have optimized your pages |
| there, relying on you not checking the address bar. | | | | and submitted them to search engines and |
| This trick is all too common and happens to folks | | | | directories, to sit back and wait, but there is not |
| who are new to SEO every single day. This sad fact | | | | much that can be done aside from attempting to |
| will continue until people begin to catch it every time. | | | | accumulate links from good, solid places. The work |
| If you don't have accurate details regarding SEO, | | | | that you have done is bound to pay off sooner or |
| then you might make a bad choice on the subject. | | | | later as long as you stay honest. When it comes to |
| Don't let that happen: keep reading. | | | | the world of SEO, honesty is, indeed, the best policy. |
| If the domain has changed, delete your backlink to | | | | When word gets around about your command of |
| the site in question immediately and then email the | | | | SEO facts, others who need to know about SEO will |
| webmaster with your complaint. If the webmaster | | | | start to actively seek you out. |
| does not fix the problem you may even want to | | | | |