5. Copying Blog Content from Other Sources
If you wouldn’t find cloaking easy to do, lifting blog content from other sources is comparatively easier. This is the practice of copying content from other sites and pasting that into your own site. This will negatively impact your search rankings, as the penguins will give you slaps with severe punishment which bounces back on your progress.
What You Should Do
Though it is easy, don’t engage in lifting blog content from other sites. Build your own content originally and then run plagiarism checks to ensure your content is 100 percent unique and original before hitting the Publish button.
Google officially disclosed that quality, useful, original, and fresh content is an extremely-crucial signal that will skyrocket your site to the top of the search engine results pages – followed by external backlinks.
One that I was aware of was the attempt to hide keywords and URLs in pages and posts. Unfortunately, I still see that practice used extensively and I am certain that it is hurting the chances for good SERPs for those who attempt that technique.
Throughout the course of a day, I visit many websites and view the page source for various reasons. That is where I discover those attempts to hide keywords and URLS. It happens more than one knows.
Since I am very naive about keywords, I have been using the SEO keyword section shown on the Pages section of my websites in the WordPress dashboard. It is there that I list what I think are relevant keywords.
By checking the page source of my live page on the Internet, I find the exact keywords that I placed in the keyword section....EXAMPLE:<meta name="keywords" content="camping in indiana,rv camping in indiana,tent camping in indiana">
Israel, by using the technique as described above, isn't that how it is supposed to work? Keywords........It is all very confusing to me.
Can you help to clarify the difference between the "keywords" listed in the <meta name> section of one's page source AND "keywords" one might use in their content when composing a blog post or page?
And are you saying that Google and other search engine bots are, for the most part, ignoring the keywords in the <meta name> section, but are instead searching through content itself for juicy and relevant keywords?
Thanks for the interesting and useful material in your post. You hear about these things and it was great learning more about them.
Like you said Google is so smart now it's hard to run any of these bad practices by them but I'm sure there are people who will still try.
It's the same old story if some of these people worked as hard honestly as they do dishonestly they would be a lot further ahead.
Have a good one,
Don