When it comes to content, you have to respect copyrights, even on the web.  Plagiarism on the web is rampant and most people don't understand why they just shouldn't do it.  Let's forget all about the ethical aspect of the whole thing.  Not to say that that alone shouldn't be the reason you don't steal other people's content, but from SEO and business perspectives there are certainly a lot of other reasons you shouldn't do it as well.  In terms of search engine indexing, content is your key commodity.  If a search engine sees that you and another site have suspiciously similar content, they devalue the site that they feel plagiarized the content.  Now, the engine may not always be correct in who they deem the shady party, but 9 times out of 10, they know the score  Think about it, if you had gazillions of pages to index, wouldn't you be a bit put out if you had to keep indexing the same exact page over and over again?  That's why Google has become so wise to plagiarism.  They want to save themselves space on their servers!

So, what can be done to make sure your site isn't guilty of plagiarism and that some other site isn't ripping off your content?

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Linkbait is all about being the popular kid in high school. The goals of linkbait strategies are to grow your backlinks and drive sustainable traffic to your site. Linkbait strategies revolve around using content, creativity and a knowledge of what's popular to acquire links from popular places on the web to your site. Simply put, linkbaiting is the process of organically growing your backlinks by motivating the exceptionally active linkers in your industry to link to you.

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If the primary purpose of SEO is to increase your websites Internet visibility and drive traffic from search engines by increasing rankings in search results pages, then why do you need to promote your site through other means as well? The fact is that you want to cast a wide net so you get as many visitors as possible. So, you should not put all your eggs in the SEO basket. Diversify. While SEO is easy to implement and search engine refers are preferable, there are many other online and offline ways to do drive traffic to your site. You always need to remember, search engines are not the only game in town to drive traffic to you site.

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What is a meta tag?

Meta elements are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such elements are placed as tags in the head section of an HTML document.

The importance of meta tags in SEO

The two most common uses of meta elements on the Web are to provide a description and to provide meta keywords for a web page. This data may then be used by search engines (such as Google or Yahoo!) to generate and display a list of search results matching a given query.

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Back links are still currently the backbone of quality SEO. You have to have a good solid strategy for building those back links or else you can pretty much kiss climbing the SERPs

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