It’s scary how many ways SEO can go wrong

We’ve all had those moments of absolute terror where we just want to crawl into the fetal position, cry and pretend the problem doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, as SEOs, we can’t stay this way for long. Instead, we have to suck it up and quickly resolve whatever went terribly wrong. There are moments you know you messed up, and there are times a problem can linger for far too long without your knowledge. Either way, the situation is scary — and you have to work hard and fast to fix whatever happened. Things Google tells you not to do There are many things Google warns about in their Webmaster Guidelines: Automatically generated content Participating in link schemes Creating pages with little or no original content Cloaking Sneaky redirects Hidden text or links Doorway pages Scraped content Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value Loading pages with irrelevant keywords Creating pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans or other badware Abusing rich snippets markup Sending automated queries to Google Unfortunately, people can Search Engine Land Source

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