The biggest Seo mistakes that you can make

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by pentavon.gary, Jul 24, 2012.

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    Mistake #1 – Prioritising The Search Engines Over Search Users

    Most possibly the biggest SEO mistake that you can make is to place more significance on the search engines like google over your site visitors. Search optimisation is amazingly important to the success of your site; nonetheless, this alone will not assist to guarantee you a great conversion rate and profit for your business.

    Good search engine optimisation will help to gain you an impressive ranking within the search engines like google, however, it should never be executed at risk of your visitor’s experience on your website. Alternatively, you should engage in good off-site and on-site SEO that can assist you to convert larger amounts of traffic into sales and will leave visitors planning to return to your site.

    Mistake #2 – Building Poor Quality Backlinks

    Using bad quality back links is a definite no-no, particularly considering Google penguin’s latest antics. Quality ought to always be put ahead of quantity – therefore, backlinks to inconsequential sites or spammy websites will only do your site more damage than good.

    Mistake #3 – Not Doing Your Keyword Research

    Well-researched keywords can assist to attract larger quantities of targeted traffic to your website. There is no good in writing about something that is of no relevance to your market or niche, which is why it is important to find out for yourself what keywords and phrases are being most commonly searched for within your market or niche. A good internet marketing servicescompany should be able to assist you in this.

    Mistake #4 – Failing To Update Your Website On A Regular Basis

    Irrelevant and outdated content on your website will result in rapidly decreasing volumes of traffic and sales for your business – plus, it won’t help you to achieve a better ranking with Google. By striving to ensure that your site’s content is continually fresh and up-to-date, you can be sure to enjoy a greater conversion rate, an increased ranking with the search engines.
     
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  2. seothevirtual

    seothevirtual Greenhorn

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    #2
    Some more Mistakes sharing with you

    1) Targeting the wrong keywords
    2) Ignoring the Title tag
    3) A Flash website without a html alternative
    4) JavaScript Menus
    5) Lack of consistency and maintenance
    6) Concentrating too much on meta tags
    7) Using only Images for Headings
    8) Ignoring URLs
    9) Backlink spamming
    10) Lack of keywords in the content
     
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  3. JohnKets

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    #3
    You can add some more:

    (1) Targeting 2 or 3 keywords.
    (2) Submitting same article or press-release more than one website
    (3) keywords stuffing in content
    (4) Using poor directory for submission
    (5) Using same meta-tags for all pages
     
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    Thanks for this valuable information.
     
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    Ha-ha, actually, to Google, all SEO is a big mistake.
    Unfortunately, if you go 100% by the books and do everything the way Google wants you to do, you will be always outranked by more adventurous and less ethical guys. You wanna know why? Because Google does not have efficient means of keeping these guys at bay yet. The only keywords you can rank high for using all white-hat methods are the keywords nobody else wants. This is the reality.
    Perhaps things will change in the future and Google will really manage to "level the field" for everyone. If this happens, I will use only legitimate ways to build my google search engine ranking. Until then, there will be no way for me to avoid grey-hat techniques entirely.
     
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    One of the top SEO mistake will be Keyword stuffing and following black hat SEO technique.
     
    seo-first, Jul 24, 2012 IP
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    On top of that, low quality contents!
     
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    #8
    to chime in on JohnKets list, I totally agree with being careful and aware of those mistakes but I would just like to point out something about press releases and the "mistake" of publishing it on more than one website.

    Press release syndication is not the same as article marketing or blog content marketing. The very nature of press release syndication requires that the press release article remain intact and unchanged. This of course is going under the assumption that these are high quality authority type sites that are syndicating the press releases.
     
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    #9
    add some more-

    1.Targeting 2 or 3 keywords.
    2.Submitting same article or press-release more than one website
    3. keywords stuffing in content
    4. Using poor directory for submission
     
    marinseo, Jul 24, 2012 IP
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    SEO is very deep
     
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    Another biggest mistake in seo is to use black hat seo and breaking the Google's guidelines.
     
    boyce, Jul 25, 2012 IP
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    #12
    I agree above statement.
     
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    #13
    Thanks for sharing your views with us. Sure there are plenty more seo mistakes but i want to focus on those that it seems everybody has forgot.

     
    pentavon.gary, Jul 25, 2012 IP
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    I am agree with your post.Most of the time innocent people hire black hat seo and they make them suffer a lot and result is that they lose their money and site reputation both.
     
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    pentavon.gary Active Member

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    i have to admit that you are perfectly right.. thanks for sharing that with us

     
    pentavon.gary, Jul 26, 2012 IP
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    Thanks for sharing these tips,they are really helpful.
     
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    pentavon.gary Active Member

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    You are most welcome man .. i will come back with more of that type...

     
    pentavon.gary, Jul 26, 2012 IP
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    Hiring someone that doesn't have a clue what they are doing ..........
     
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    I think the biggest mistake you can make in SEO is to focus on SEO. Sure, you need to follow certain guidelines to get your page ranked, but in the end the human visitor will be deciding on the quality of your content. Time is better spent in delivering content of higher quality than trying to push low-quality content to a larger number of people.

    Pushing low-quality content to a large number of people only means you're getting bad reputation quickly.
     
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    pentavon.gary Active Member

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    You are absolutely right man .. there is no succes on pure white hat you need a little grey in there .

    But there is also some things very important to succed with your grey hat strategy. You absolutely have to obey some rules that Google says cause otherwise is so difficult.

     
    pentavon.gary, Jul 27, 2012 IP