“It was a dark and stormy night…”
Sometimes evil forces are at work in the world of SEO, causing search engine marketing campaigns to go terribly wrong. These ghoulish tales of woe can be caused by cut-throat SEO scammers or simply by naive mistakes, but the consequences can be horrendous. One of the most terrifying things about these SEO horror stories is that many companies are not aware that they are happening to them right now! Dark forces could be at work sabotaging your SEO as we speak, would you know the difference?
These SEO horror stories will cause you to wake up in the cold sweat after having nightmares about it happening to your business! Here are some of the most chilling tales of search engine optimization disaster that could happen to your business:
You’ve Become the Invisible Man
Do you get that feeling like you are shouting at the top of your lungs but no one around can hear you or see you? Perhaps this is because your website is actually invisible to the search engines. This happens when your SEO company has not built a Search Engine Friendly website with a good indexation and it is not showing up on the Google search results. Your website is nothing more than a lonely ghost haunting the internet because no one can see it or interact with it. Spooky…
Attack of the Evil Black Hat Sorcerers
Bad SEO practices are known as “black hat techniques” and those who practice this sort of black magic are feared throughout the web. Just like witches cackling over a bubbling toxic brew, these dubious SEO wizards stir in keyword stuffing, duplicate content, fake doorway page illusions and questionable linking strategies to create a poisonous cocktail of dishonest practices.
The scary thing is that these evil sorcerers will disguise themselves as legitimate SEO companies and most businesses are not aware that they have hired them. Be very careful…
Night of the Living Dead Content
What is brain dead, multiplies quickly and threatens your very existence? The answer could be zombies, but it could also refer to badly written content on the web. These oddly misshapen and completely mindless articles are devoid of any life or intelligence and are spreading rapidly throughout the internet. They are created by content farms and they are not real well written or informative articles, they are simply corpses of words brought back to life with shoddy rewriting.
If you hire a cut-rate content provider to write articles or blog posts for your website, you could be in danger of your business getting infected by zombie content, leaving your customers running screaming in the other direction.
The internet can be a scary place and these are just a few of the SEO horror stories that exist out there.
If you want to make sure that you avoid falling victim to one of these terrible SEO situations, make sure that you choose a reputable SEO company that you can trust to be on your side in the big and scary world out there. Investigate their track record very carefully to ensure that they have left behind satisfied customers rather than a trail of carnage. Also, keep a close eye on them for any signs of black hat sorcery, zombie content or other scary stuff.
Once you have found an honest and reliable SEO company that you can trust, you will not have to worry about having your SEO campaign turn into a living nightmare before your eyes!
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Comments
4 responses to “SEO Horror Stories that Will Keep You Awake at Night”
Excellent article. There seems to be a lot of ‘home based’ ‘SEO guru’s’ out there who are after the next get rich quick scheme and they have access to a plethora of companies who are willing to pay because they think they can achieve top ranking by spending a few quid/dollars.
Thanks for your comment,
Forums4Windows. It’s always been easy to trick the people are not good at a certain discipline. And that proves that idea that any site owner should have at least basic SEO skills not to land his business in hot water.
By the way, even more interesting posts are about to be published on the blog, so don’t forget about this place 🙂
Great blog! Clever writing with very informative information on SEO. SEO is pretty tricky territory and you obviously know it like the back of your hadn.
Thanks for your comment, Sheryl. I appreciate your attitude, but we all need to remember that Google is constantly changing its algorithm. So, if you want to be in the SEO know, you need to keep track of all inbound marketing innovations.
The only thing that does not change is demand for quality content. If your site has quality content and you show it to other people, you don’t need to be afraid of any Google updates or what not.