Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
* Keyword in title, keywords, description and header tags
* Keywords throughout body content, predominantly toward the top of the page
* Links at the bottom of the page, linking to themselves, featuring the keywords in the anchor text
Are any of these likely to see me penalised?
What do you mean by "linking to themselves"? A page does not link to itself for the human user, right? In fact, it's a usablity frustration for the human user to click a link and see the same page re-load. If this is what your site does in more than one link, that may also be an issue.
if you are saying you have a list of links that reload the page they are on i definately agree this is not good practise.
never have a link that reloads the current page and avoid linking to the same page more than once in any page.
how about instead you link to other internal pages that arent immediately available from the main navigation (using a keyword target of the destination page)
Article:
Google bans BMW [arcon5.com]
With BMW being a very large website, it shows they treat them just as equally as the small guys.
Moral of the story, dont do it!
And now for the rest of the story...
Less than a week later, BMW was back in the index. Do you think if it was Bob's BMW site old Bob would have been back in the index in a week?
What if my menu bar has all the pages listed.
item for widgets and another for thing-a-ma-jigs, on every single page.
I only have two pages that do this tho. My widgets page has several links to differently designed widgets. While my thing-a-ma-jigs page has links to differently designed... you get the idea.
The main widgets page does have a link in the nav bar to the very page you'd be looking at. Same as the other.
Is this a serious problem?
this is the point. If your a big brand or authority site or have some big bang in some areas of the net then you will get a way with far more than mom and pops pr2 site. The serps are full of big brand sites spamming every which way you can, there is no way if i did 10% of that stuff i would last the week out in the serps.
What if my menu bar has all the pages listed.
This is a common situation and on its own does not seem tocause problems. The opening post mentioned several keyword-filled links in the footer that point to the same page. Different situation. As a matter of fact, I know of several sites that got handed a Yahoo penalty as well for a similar practice.
Footer spam -- not a good idea.
Would I be getting penalized for that?
