[EzineArticles] Bad Links: What Are Unnatural Links From a Site?

Bad Links: What Are Unnatural Links From a Site? Is Your Website User Friendly or Unnatural? No matter how you spin it, unnatural links are traffic counterfeiters - they're deceitful, fake, and fail to meet the standards of quality and performance users expect. As a result, stewards of the Internet are taking massive action against poor quality, unnatural links. We've covered unnatural links pointing to* a website, but what about unnatural links pointing from a website? It's important to note that unnatural links don't necessarily refer to your entire website; rather, unnatural links are pages on your website. Examples of unnatural links pointing from a website include the following: Links in blog spam comments Thin, placeholder, or copied content Cookie cutter websites and doorway pages Ensure your website is working for you and not against you with these 7 unnatural link prevention methods! Top 7 Unnatural Link Prevention Tips for Links Pointing From Your Website Monitor and Block Spam: User-generated content in forums, blogs, guestbook pages, etc. can be a blessing and a curse. High-quality interactions, comments, and reviews are always rewarded; however, user-generated content is prone to spam. Eradicate spam using prevention tools (e.g., spam blocking plugins) as well as actively monitor your platform (e.g., review links from guest comments and remove their links if you've found poor quality).   Avoid Creating Parked Pages: Parked pages or parked domains lack quality content. Typically, these pages don't have user-oriented content because the parked pages either reserve a domain name, redirect the user, or the registrant's ownership of the page has expired. Superficial use of parked pages to force unnatural page rank by creating several parked pages and then redirecting users to a main website is abhorred. 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Avoid affiliate pages, doorway pages**, and cookie cutter websites that may negatively impact user experience and therefore your page rank.   Perpetuate Quality: Content that's thin, derivative, spun, copied and/or even plagiarized offers little to no added value for users. We can't say this enough: Always provide engaging, quality content for the user.   Don't Sit on a Hack: If any or all of your pages have been hacked to display spammy content or links by a third party, then take action to fix it right away! Clean up and secure your website to protect your users and your brand.   Cease Spamming and Black Hat SEO: If you practice spinning, cloaking, scraping, hiding text, keyword stuffing, egregious redirecting, and other unnatural, deceptive, or manipulative outbound linking, then you're contributing to the creation of pure spam. Stop these toxic methods immediately and begin building a website and platform based on quality measures that target user experience. What does targeting a great user experience do for you? Better engagement, higher conversions, more exposure, and increased traffic. Use these tips to start building a better quality website. What methods have you found work for you? What toxic website practices have you stumbled into that you'd like to warn fellow Expert Authors about? Click here to share your comments – we'd love to hear from you! *For more information on unnatural links pointing to a website, click here. **To discover why doorway pages don't work, click here. To Your Article Writing Success & Passion! Vanessa, Editorial Manager http://Blog.EzineArticles.com/ http://EzineArticles.com/ PS: Not following us on Twitter? You're missing out on a lot of great article writing tips and wisdom. Follow us today! EzineArticles Member Endorsement "The benefits will be dramatic" EzineArticles has been one of the best Internet marketing decisions I've made over the years. 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[EzineArticles] Bad Links: What Are Unnatural Links to a Site?

Bad Links: What Are Unnatural Links to a Site? Are the Links to Your Website Sabotaging Your Efforts? Be smart about your link placement. If you're not, then you risk creating a host of unnatural links that will spoil everything you've attempted to achieve in your article writing and content marketing efforts. What Are Unnatural Links? Often hiding under the guise of SEO and "get traffic quick" methods, unnatural links are artificial, deceptive, and manipulative links that point to or from a website. They create a terrible user experience and pollute the Internet. Unnatural links can result in a significant drop in search engine rankings and they're being detected faster and faster. 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[EzineArticles] Tools You Need Article Template

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