How to Use a Proxy IP in Firefox: Foxy Proxy

As an SEO, you may occasionally need to use a proxy, whether you are working on multilingual projects or just keeping your identity hidden. So here you are, a quick 10-minute guide to using a proxy IP. here i Use a fire fox add-ons called foxy proxy.This is very helpful and user friendly add-ons.Just flow the below steps and enjoy your 100% worked free proxy.

Step1: open your fire-fox browser and click menu baton left side on a corner and click "Add-ons" look at the below picture

Step2: write in the search box(left side on a corner) "foxy proxy" and serch for it.look at the pic.

Step3: Just install it and "restart" your fire fox..

Step 4:Now your foxy proxy is ready to use. you find it in your firefox menu bar and the logo look like the below image.

 Step5:Now click the logo.There open a pup up window now just click "Add new Proxy".see the below image.

Step6:In this window don't change anything just add the IP address and port and click "OK". see the below image.

How To use forxy proxy? Right click on foxy proxy logo.you see your added ip list there just chose one and use it.

[Note:if you have no idea how you get the Ip use Hide my ass proxy list]

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What to avoid in SEO

In recent years a number of illicit techniques have grown up to artificially manipulate a
web site’s ranking. These techniques are referred to as spamming or sometimes “Black
hat” techniques. The “black hat” description refers to the fact that in the old western
movies the bad guys always wore black hats. The core of any spamming technique is the
attempt to deceive the search engine, and ultimately the site visitor, about the true nature
of a web site’s content.

What to avoid in SEO

The question is whether spamming techniques actually deliver any long term benefit. In
addition, it is known that using proscribed spamming techniques can get the spammer,
their client sites and organisations delisted by the major search engines. It has happened
publicly in the past and the search engines particularly Google place great emphasis on
their warnings. Google even has a page for reporting spamming offenders.

I have identified a list of nine types of illicit SEO or spamming techniques.

• Keyword Stuffing
• Cloaking
• Doorway Sites
• Throwaway sites
• Mirror Sites
• Hidden Text
• Tiny Text
• Link Spamming
• Comment Spam

Keyword Stuffing

Keyword stuffing is the technique of excessively using lots of keywords with express
intention of influencing the search engines. Quite often this use appears in an
incomprehensible or ungrammatical manner. Keyword stuffing is often used in
conjunction with other spamming techniques such as cloaking, doorway sites, hidden text
and tiny text.

Cloaking

Cloaking is the technique whereby the web site visible to a site visitor is entirely different
from that seen by a search engine spider. The ordinary user may see one set of text and
images but underneath that image, or “cloak”, the site is “stuffed” with keywords. By
examining the cache of a cloaked site on the Google search results, we can see that the
site shows entirely different information to the spider, from that shown to the human eye.

Doorway Sites

A doorway site is a site that acts as a referring page for another site. The doorway page is
highly optimised – containing hidden links and keywords that the ordinary web user
never sees. The doorway site then climbs the search engine rankings but re-directs all of
its traffic to the target – and perhaps poorly optimised site.

Throwaway Sites

Throwaway sites are almost always doorway sites. They are web sites built by spammers
to provide a short-term and artificial boost to traffic. Once their traffic objectives are
achieved they are often switched off or left to decay – hence throwaway. Throwaway
sites are stuffed with links and keywords to attract and then re-direct traffic to a target
web site. Typically, the spammers retain ownership of the throwaway domain. The
spammers’ clients initially receive large amounts of traffic. But once the throwaway site
is switched off – or thrown away – the traffic comes to an abrupt halt and the clients
business suffers. The clients are then effectively blackmailed into spending vast sums to
retain traffic. The target web site receives no long term ranking benefits.

Mirror Sites

Mirror sites use an alternative URL to the target site but contain identical content. With
automated page production, there maybe hundreds of different URLs all with the same
content. This technique is sometimes referred to as domain duplication.
Hidden Text
The technique here is to fill or “stuff” a page with keywords invisible to the naked eye.
This is done by using the same colour for text as for the background page. This technique
is sometimes referred to as WOW, short for white on white.

Tiny Text

Tiny text is a technique of using very small text that is barely visible to the human eye.
This text can be read by the engines. However, the engines will also attribute this text as
spam.

Link Spamming

In many respects, due to the increasing influence of links, it was inevitable that link
spamming would become an issue. Spamming of links has been a growing problem as
many people have realised the importance that Google, in particular, places on links. As a
significant issue it raised its head in April 2005 when Google’s new release appeared to
ban one of the leading SEO firms from its rankings. Few people outside of Google and
the SEO firm concerned are entirely sure why this is the case. But the industry consensus
is that Google are cracking down on web sites and organisations that accumulate vast
numbers of irrelevant links with the sole intention of climbing the rankings.

Comment Spam

Related to link spamming is comment spam. Comment spam is where a spammer visits a
publicly accessible site and deposits a comment with an anchor text link back to a
designated site. Forums and blogs are typical target. This activity became identified as a
major problem in January 2005 when Google took steps to prevent it from the blogs of
Blogger.com. The reason was that spammers working for so called PPC (Pills, Porn and
Casino) web sites were trawling legitimate blogs and posting uninvited comment
advertisements with their web site’s anchor text. Blogs were vulnerable because they
typically possess a comment section that can be accessed without the need for passwords
or even registration.

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Changing Industry – History of SEO

The 10-year history of search engine optimization is closely tied to the underlying growth
of the internet and the development of its attendant search technologies. The three driving
forces have been:

1. The growth and commercial value of the internet consumer base.
2. The rising intensity of competition in online market categories.
3. The increasing sophistication of search technologies.

SEO History

With the growth in value, the rewards for success in the marketing battle have risen
significantly. With an increasingly crowded internet, search has become a more important
component of commercial success. Without search, how is your site found? As a result,
attempts to both legitimately manage or illegitimately manipulate search results have
become motivated by the greater rewards on offer.
The early days of search engine optimisation go back to mid-1990s when the internet first
began to attract significant numbers of web sites and users. In those early days, emphasis
was on the submission stage – getting your site placed into as many search engines as
possible. The most important aspect of a search engine algorithm appeared to be entirely
“on-page” based and was focused almost exclusively around meta tags and their related
text.

Search algorithms could be decoded simply by analysing the results pages. During the
late 1990s, ethical SEOs and spammers alike realised that search engine results could be
manipulated by the simple process of adjusting a site’s meta tags to match the desired
keywords. During this period there were many crude attempts by spammers to stuff meta
tags with irrelevant but popular search terms. Famous spamming keyword meta tags have
included “Britney Spears” on sites with nothing to do with Britney Spears. It just
happened to be that Britney was one of the most searched for terms.
Google’s arrival in 1998 and the introduction of its “off-page”, link based, approach
signalled the beginning of the end for the exclusively meta tag driven approach. Google
was really the first engine to establish that sites carrying similar content had a propensity
to be linked. Google’s strength appeared that the relevance of its results was less
vulnerable to the orthodox spamming techniques of its day. Search users were attracted
by its relevance to their search needs. In essence the key to success under the Google
algorithm was not what your site said about itself but what the links from other sites said.
The Google spider apparently ignores keyword meta tags entirely and only the MSN
spider apparently places any emphasis on them at all. Abuse of the keyword meta tag by
spammers led to its downfall. Google’s subsequent rise to dominance eventually
transformed the SEO industry. Google’s rise in popularity forced many competitor search
engines to fall by the wayside or to be consolidated with larger parents such as Yahoo.
Due to Google’s success, both Yahoo and Microsoft, through its newly independent and
revised MSN search engine, have had to take on board many of the features of Google’s
approach. The influence of inbound links continues to increase.

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Quality Directory Submission Process 2013

There are a lot of advantages to directory submission for search engine optimization. Primarily, directory submissions result in one-way links to your site. In addition, if it is a high traffic directory, you can also get visitors to your site through the directory, though I would not count on this kind of traffic.

Of particular value are specialized directories that are related to your site because these provide relevant one way links back to your site. The other big advantage is that as you become listed on high profile directories such as DMOZ, it improves your site’s credibility and facilitates other link exchanges because people are more willing to work with webmasters and sites that are well connected and have a good reputation.

Below are 6 tips to help you get the most out of your directory submission process.

1. Keep a Log of All the Directories You Have Submitted To

Create an Excel sheet or get a lined notebook to write down the directories that you have submitted your site to so you don’t accidentally waste time doing it twice. Plus, this gives you a long list that you can check off in the future when you have other sites to submit.

Also, while I generally don’t recommend paying for directory inclusion, keeping records will help you to know how much you are spending and better decide if it is worth the cost.

2. Compile a List of Directories Before Starting

There are thousands of directories out there. Fortunately, others have already compiled lists of directories for you so that all you need to do is search out these sites and sort their lists by high page rank and the niche directories related to your website. Start with these and, if you still have time afterwards, then expand your list. With literally thousands of directories (most offering little value), however, you want to start with the ones that are likely to give you the most success.

3. Choose the Right Category

Selecting the most relevant category is of key importance in directory submission. With every directory, there is a webmaster deciding whether your site is going to contribute to their business. If your site is not going to add value to their directory, then your submission is on a fast track to the garbage bin, and the fastest way to end up on this track is to submit to the wrong category. In addition, while not all directories allow you to submit to high level categories, if it is possible, you want to be on pages with the fewest clicks from the home page. The closer you are to the home page, the greater value that link back to your site will be.

4. Build Your Title Wisely

Most directories allow you to build a title for your site. This title becomes the hyperlink back to your site and so the keywords used in the title will be the keywords that Google deems important on your site. If you want your blog to rank well for ‘Latest SEO Tricks’, then there is little point in titling your submission “Latest SEO Tricks Blog.” Once you have built a keyword relevant title, you will then want to vary it between submissions so that the link building appears more natural to the search engines.

5. Build a Keyword Relevant Description

While the description is less important compared to the title, the keywords help to determine the relevance of the link and also act as your pitch to potential customers browsing the directory. Write three short descriptions (15-25 words) and three longer descriptions (30-50 words) and vary them with each submission depending on the guidelines of the directory. Also avoid excess use of capital letters and punctuation as overt overuse of both can get your submission rejected.

6. Stretch Out Your Submissions Over Time

The search engines do not like to see abnormally large bursts in the number of links to a site as it generally suggests that artificial link building is being done. The search engines want natural link buildingand the more natural you make it look, the more value you will get out
of your links.

By following these tips, you should be able to enjoy a good return on your time investment into directory submissions.

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