--- title: "Ways to ruin your Google SEO" slug: "ways-to-ruin-your-google-seo" updated: 2022-10-04T22:15:44Z published: 2022-10-04T22:15:44Z canonical: "support.bookingtimes.com/ways-to-ruin-your-google-seo" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.bookingtimes.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ways to ruin your Google SEO ## Avoid the following techniques: - Automatically generated content - Participating in link schemes - Creating pages with little or no original content - Cloaking - Sneaky redirects - Hidden text or links - Doorway pages - Scraped content - Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value - Loading pages with irrelevant keywords - Creating pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware - Abusing structured data markup - Sending automated queries to Google