Risky SEO Tricks: Is It Worth It ?

 Risky SEO Tricks: Is It Worth It ?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is all about making your website more search engine friendly. This means abiding by the rules of the search engines and taking into account the guidelines they give out too, not that they are very forthcoming with most of their guidelines. This article deals with Google, since it is the biggest and most popular search engine of all time.

A risk means there is something to lose

If you are taking part in risky SEO then you are taking a risk, and that means there is something to lose. If there is nothing to lose then it is just called, �doing stuff.� If you are going to take the risk then consider all the things you have to lose. Even if you having trouble figuring out what all the Google punishments will be if you fail, just remember what you have to lose, in which case you will have more idea of if what you are about to do is a good idea.

What if you have nothing to lose?

If you are in this position then you may be thinking you have nothing to lose because it is a new hosting account, new website, new domain and a new idea. There may not be a business behind the website, in which case you may consider the fact that you have very little to lose. But, if you are going to start risky SEO and you have all of these things (and do not have a business behind your website that you may lose), then you are going to need a few other things. You are going to need to hide your information from the world with something such as VPS and cloaking accounts that hackers use. You are also going to need email addresses that you can burn if the poop hits the proverbial fan.

How long can such tricks work?

Fake and villainous SEO companies make their living by how long they can partake of risky SEO, and it really depends. Some people start out with a bit of risky SEO and have their website sandboxed by the end of the week, and yet others are able to pull it off for months, especially if the SEO trick is spinning content.

As a rule of thumb, the longest it takes Google to figure something out is about two months, and that is going on the fact that it can take as long as 2 months for them to read your xml sitemap (that is all that the 2 months figure is based on).

Weighing up the potential gain against potential loss

Let�s say that you are not in the position mentioned earlier where you have nothing to lose. Let�s say you do have something to lose. You have to weigh up what you may lose with what you will gain. If you run a business, then you could lose the ability to post a website for that business that runs on the Google search engine. That is only for a small while, as you could start up with a new IP address, host and domain name, but how is that going to affect your credibility? It is up to you to weigh up the pros and cons of your risk.

If you read it then you are not the first to try it

The fact that people do not know this is pitiful. There are no secrets online. If you have read something online then you are not the only one to find it locked away in a remote part of the Internet. If you have read it then so have others, which means it is not a secret and Google are probably already on it to try and stop it.

Is it not just SEO as oppose to a trick?

Some people call regular SEO a trick. The fact is that SEO has a lot of factors because Google are supposed to measure over 200 factors. Even if there were only three tips per factor then you are looking at around 600 SEO tips. So, are you sure what you are about to do is actually risky?

Where did you find this so called �trick�?

The credibility of the place you found it should be part of your decision making process. If you found it on a website that ranked 120,000 on the search engine results, then maybe they don�t know too much about search engine optimization. Check your source and get further advice before taking SEO risks.

Author bio:

Sonia J. is the author of this post. She's also in a team of Writing Service Assistant that helps students to find the most reliable and professional writing service.