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What is Spamming?
Spamming is Never a Good Idea

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

Spamming is utilizing any search engine ranking technique which causes a false quality in the results produced by search engines. Common spamming tricks are:
  • Excessive repetition of a keyword on a web page
  • Optimizing a page for a keyword which has nothing to do with the contents of the site
  • Using invisible or tiny text in order to stuff more keywords in
  • Creating false doorway pages that hide more keywords

Instead of Spamming, Try Good Search Engine Optimization

  • Search Engine Optimization-The Basics of Search Engine Optimization: In a very basic nutshell, search engine optimization, or SEO for short, is the process of making your site and the site's individual pages visible and relevant to both search engines and search engine users.
  • Optimize Your Website in Ten Easy Steps: You know that there's always something that could be tweaked for increased web site traffic, better customer satisfaction, and a higher search engine ranking. How exactly do you go about doing that? Follow these Ten Steps to a Well-Optimized Site and I think you'll see that these goals are not as lofty as you might think.
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