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Thou Shalt Not.....
Repeat the keywords over and over again in the meta tags.
Use fonts with little or no contrast to the background color.
Use redirects.
use huge javascripts in the page content
Thou Shalt .....
use external .js calls where ever possible
Submit identical pages with different URLs
Expect a search engine to index a page with no text
Put important content in deeply nested tables
Use the same title for every page......
Use tiny text fonts
Submit URL's that have "?" question marks in them, or expect the spiders to follow links with "?" in them.
Setup a secondary email address to be used for SE submissions and linkage programs
Use WPG doorways.
Buy positioning "secret" books with techniques that worked over a year ago.
Resubmit a page that is ranking in the Top 20
Use auto-submit software (until you've been doing SEO for a year or more)
Submit more than 1 page a day per domain without checking (in these forums or elsewhere) what the LIMIT might be for that SE.
ask for reciprocal links from quality, themely-matched sites.
Forget that when asking for reciprocal links from quality, themely-matched sites freeware is availiable to help you...
[2bpop.com ]
forget Google's passion for on topic links...
Pay for placement without FIRST checking (in these forums or elsewhere) if the SE or directory generates traffic.
Thou shalt
Help those trying to learn...What goes around comes around.
-G
Use double digit numbers for determining keyword density.
Pay hundreds of dollars for SEO seminars when answers can be found online for free.
over submit or auto submit
Thou Shalt
manual submit
Use cloaking to SPAM the engines
Thou Shalt .....
Use Cloaking to protect your self from thieves that steal your code :)
believe people that say "we gurantee top 10"
Put your pride aside and ask questions, even dumb questions so you might learn.
overlook misspellings in keywords. some very common words are misspelled as often as they are spelled properly. Tip here [webmasterworld.com].
Now goto.com used to give kelley blue book as #4 [It doesn't now]
#2 is incorrect
[We used this to advantage until the kbb.com sent a C&D]
;)
Blindly submit/resubmit to ODP/DMOZ without reviewing this thread and its links [webmasterworld.com].
Guarantee ANYTHING thou hasn't control over.
Make up words the like of domainificationalizing without being able to use it in a graspable context or at least amusing Mr. Mackin.
Expect to find your page in the search engines 2 days after submitting it
Thou Shalt...
Watch for Search Engine Spiders.
Bang head against a brick wall after reading these threads
Thou Shalt.....
Learn from these threads
Read DrBill's thread on How To [webmasterworld.com] for the NEW site, whether it's a new site or not.
Always give new pages a quick run through the HTML Validator [validator.w3.org].
It's like a free test drive!
