How to Get Your Site Banned by Search Engines – 9 Tips

Loren Baker has an excellent article at Search Engine Journal entitled 9 Ways To Get Banned by Search Engines.

I think the article is highly relevant because quite a few people, some of them purporting to be SEO experts, seem to assume these are accepted SEO techniques when in fact they can do great damage to your website’s rankings.

The most commonly misused techniques I see are keyword stuffing, hidden text, and duplicate content, especially in the form of redirecting multiple URLs to the same website.