Top 5 SEO Problems found in many Web sites

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by HarryJackson, Dec 17, 2009.

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    1. Not Enough Content

    Most e commerce sites tend to be great with putting content on their product pages, but forget about their homepage and their category pages. Content rich product pages are great when people are searching for your products, but what about people with slightly broader searches? If your category pages just have a list of products on them but no content about the category, then you are missing a big opportunity.

    2. Bad URLs

    URLs serve a few purposes in SEO. Firstly, Google uses keywords in the URLs as ranking factor. Not only will that lack a keyword boost for Google, but it’s not a great search result, it doesn’t entice people to click.

    3. Good Met descriptions

    Meta description tags aren’t used by Google as a ranking factor, so tweaking them won’t make you rank any higher.
    However, the meta description tag is often used by Google to show the abstract that appears in the search results. As a result, a well written meta description tag is more likely to entice people to click on your listing rather than your competitors listing.
    4. No Alt Tags

    Google and other major search engines weigh the text in alt tags at least as high as headings, so it’s definitely worth your trouble. Ideally your alt text will be custom written for every image,
    5. Canonicalization Issues

    Canonicalization is when one page has multiple URLs.

    The canonical tag can be a good way to solve these problems.
    // <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/page"/>
    I recommend you to read Top 5 Bad SEO Ideas and Importance of Title Tag in SEO
     
    HarryJackson, Dec 17, 2009 IP
  2. Increase

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    listen to this advice here guys/gals

    this seo player knows his stuff to all you newbies
     
    Increase, Dec 17, 2009 IP
  3. fr@nc!z

    fr@nc!z Active Member

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    #3
    I strongly agree with that. This is a good guidelines to all newbies here.
     
    fr@nc!z, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    thanx for advice !
     
    gehashel, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    Thank you for the information on the canonical tag - I have been wondering how big of an issue this is.
     
    ksburgess, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    Great post! I'd also add "copied content", I've seen soooo many sites purely made of PLR articles which never get about PR1 :rolleyes:
     
    stuart.letterman, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    thanks for the post! great one...
     
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    Thanks for posting, never heard of Canonicalization Issues before. New at all this, thanks again.
     
    daniellindsay, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    Oh, god, My site have some problem. There are a lot of content in it. But the search engine just can not fetch my content
     
    czc61307659, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    Thanks for the advice, and the Canonicalization thing is very helpful.
     
    Organs, Dec 17, 2009 IP
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    Thanks for the suggestions, interesting list there.
     
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    alt tag is not used by most SE including google. it plays no factor in SEO.
     
    vivianrollins, Dec 17, 2009 IP