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What can be the worst possible thing a SEO wanna-be or even a professional can do to bludgeon a site? :blush:

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Hide text from the search engines by either making it the same colour as the background or really really small. Wink

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Here's a relevant post that just came up on SEOMoz today: The Most Common SEO Mistakes Big Brands Commit. If you're interested in SEO you should really just read that blog Smiling There are other good ones out there, but I find that SEO Moz is the best quality and isn't too in depth for someone who isn't an SE specialist.

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cloaking and 302 redirects are the worst.
Same-color text is a comparatively lesser evil and at times is unintentional.

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Thanks for the link Megan, The information in the article is really good. I have bookmarked the page.