http://thirstypony.com/2006/08/the-ethics-of-seo/ Search Marketing - Simplified Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thirstypony.com/2006/08/the-ethics-of-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-8 The 411 on 301 Redirects » TP Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:24:13 +0000 http://thirstypony.com/2006/08/the-ethics-of-seo/#comment-8 [...] Redirects are the genesis of a lot of confusion in the wild, wide world of SEM - because if applied for the purposes of black hat SEO, they can get you penalized. It was common practice in the early days to set up groups of sneaky redirection pages that all targeted similar and related keywords or phrases. The only links on these pages are links to other pages in the same family creating a phony sense of related linking that once managed to trick algorithms. But the 301 redirect is completely safe and should not be feared. [...] [...] Redirects are the genesis of a lot of confusion in the wild, wide world of SEM – because if applied for the purposes of black hat SEO, they can get you penalized. It was common practice in the early days to set up groups of sneaky redirection pages that all targeted similar and related keywords or phrases. The only links on these pages are links to other pages in the same family creating a phony sense of related linking that once managed to trick algorithms. But the 301 redirect is completely safe and should not be feared. [...]

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