What SEO tactics do use to try and rank higher on Google? Are you disobeying the SEO rules and heading towards a Google penalty?

We share 25 SEO tactics Google doesn’t like in this infographic.

Here’s a quick summary:

• Guest blogging for the sole purpose of link building
• Writing short, keyword-rich content (aka keyword stuffing)
• Selling links
• Product review links that pass Pagerank
• Buying links
• Over-optimizing internal links
• Over-optimizing inbound links
• Keyword stuffing your alt image tags
• Link exchanges
• Buying placements in low-quality directories
• Using irrelevant keywords just to rank
• Manual article spinning
• Improper use or abuse of rich snippets
• Meta keyword stuffing
• Spammy footer links
• The old bait and switch
• Cloaking
• Doorway pages
• Automated article spinning
• …then switching
• Invisible text
• Comment spamming
• Domain squatting
• Scraping
• Creating a web ring to cross-link between sites

Check out the infographic for more detail.