In all my years of experience on the web, I have found that web engine marketers are very good at guessing and praying that their site will be top ten on the search engines. Seriously though, given then impossibility of knowing what the Googles of the world will do next and the ever-growing competition in all markets of the Internet, the life of a Search Engine Optimization professional has become very hard. Some have resorted to illegal or immoral methods in order to trick the search engines into ranking them high. Although this might work in the short term in the long term it will spell disaster every time. Some of the things that people do is cloaking where In terms of search engine marketing, this is the act of getting a search engine to record content for a URL that is different than what a searcher will ultimately see. It can be done in many technical ways. Several search engines have explicit rules against unapproved cloaking. Those violating these guidelines might find their pages penalized or banned from a search engine’s index. Remember that the path to the Dark Side is one of Doom. Darth Sidious is a prime example of that.
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