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5.There is a technical term for identical pages within a site or on multiple sites. It is called "duplicate content", and it is strictly verboten by
search engines. Here is what Google says about them: "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content."
6.Do some quick math. You have 289 outgoing links, 263 of them are labeled "bad neighborhood websites" by search engines ... so bad that they might even have been banned. What do you think will happen to your rankings?
Sadly, many webmasters fall for such tantalizing come-ons without thinking carefully about what repercussions might be.
There is a lot of truly bad advice floating around Internet on how to trick search engines or find a short-cut to high rankings. This is one example of how following poor advice and hopping into bed with wrong partner could kill your business.
Here is a good rule of thumb. Two's company. Three's a crowd. Four or more will get you arrested. OK, so I just made that up, and it's not very elegant. But it will keep you from falling for that inevitable offer with come-hither eyes and deadly communicable disease.
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