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can we do for you All major search engines penalize sites that attempt to "spam" the engines in order to improve their position. One common technique is "stacking" or "stuffing" words on a page. This is where a word is repeated many times in a row. If the search engines spot a spamming technique, they may downgrade a page's ranking or exclude it from listings altogether. The items below cover design elements that could cause a spam penalty. Invisible Text is Bad This is the technique of placing text on a page in the same color as the background, making it invisible to human viewers. Many search engines either refuse to index this text or will not index any page containing spam invisible text. Tiny Text is Bad This is the technique
of placing text on a page in a small font size. Pages that are predominantly heavy in tiny
text may be dismissed as spam. Or, the tiny text may not be indexed. As a
general guideline, try to avoid pages where the font size is predominantly smaller than
normal. All of the major search engines say they
index the full visible body text of a page, though some will not index stop words or
exclude copy deemed to be spam. All search engines can determine the popularity of a page by analyzing how many links there are to it from other pages. Some engines use this as a means to determine which pages they will include in the index. The more sites that you can get to link to you, the better! Each new document encountered by the spider is scanned for links, (your links and recoprocal links other sites) are either traversed immediately or scheduled for later retrieval. Theoretically, by following all links starting from a representative initial set of documents, a spider will end up having indexed the whole website. Spiders can never reach pages that are customized via cookies or pages using any JavaScript or Java tricks that affect their content. Some spiders cannot even understand frames. Learned Frequency A number of search engines can learn how often pages change. Pages that change often may be visited more frequently. Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion a search engine mat offer a program where you
can pay to be guarantee that your pages will be included in its index. This is necessary
for web sites with frames of flash format and does not guartee on mean search engine
returns or results only inclusion. Keyword buying campaigns cost from $ 300 to $ 10,000 per month. Cool graphics
entertain, good information/content is what sells there is ALL the words in a query are required to be
physically on the page to consider it a match. We make sure the product keywords that
might be used together in a search appear together on the page, or are at least are in
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