Did You Commit One of The Top 5 Biggest SEO Mistakes of 2006?

I just completed a blog post tonight, and I'm looking for some feedback..

Biggest SEO Mistakes of 2006

Everyone knows that 2006 is the year of web 2.0 concepts that include social networking, so how have you done this year?

 

To be honest!

The biggest mistake I have done is restricting myself to adsense only. I am now seriously thinking over affiliate programs. Better late than never.

Thanks for such a nice article.

 

GOOD ARTICLE!!!

I no i've been guilty of some items on your list (not guna tell you which one or how many thought). Its certianly given me something to think about as well so thank you for your post.

 

Luckily none of them.
Web2.0 - visitor generated communities - are great.
You can manipulate in easily like hell.

myspace is a must try,
even though it is mostly oriented on youth.

Never mind, youth gets older and shifts in topics.

 

Haha, that's awesome! We basically had the same revelation at around the same time. Good luck to ya!

 

great article there thankx ,really impressed me.

 

Great article...thanks...

 

I still don’t know what myspace is all about and why so many people are raging on about it… so I guess that must be my biggest mistake.


.. but I did make a comment on his blog so that I could get a free back link... does that count as a +ve SEO for me ?

 

Well, I'm guilty of number 2. But I'm not convinced that it matters. Whether in blog format or not, I can update all my sites as often as I feel like it. And I don't think a forum is worth putting up until a site has a decent amount of traffic in the first place.

 

Very nice article.

I definitely agree not to put all your eggs in the AdSense basket. Just one of my affiliate sites is bringing over twice what all my AdSense sites are making.

 

Good article to make you think! It's very difficult to keep sites current with all the flux but, that is why they pay us the big bucks!

 

Great comments guys! I'm glad you liked that post!

 

Thank you. I'm just starting SEOing, so this is very good for me. My errors will go in the 2007 list...

 

LOL - well one of the things about SEO is that it is always changing. So something that is the "Best practice" today will become a "no-no" tomorrow.

We all make mistakes, but if you dont adapt, you wont realize how fast SEO concepts are changing.

 

It is not real errors.
Anyway, applying the methods ScottFish´s suggested to apply, can bring you significant amount of visitors, that´s true.

To make it little harder for Scottfish and anyone else:

I see myspace profile more as a complement to your "static site" as you call it. You can create a profile -> a group -> a community. And communities are something every webmaster should try to create. If someone is part of the community it gives him/her a feel of safety, shelter and strength. He/she will stick with that community for a long time and will be able and willing to share his/her feels and fight to protect that community. If you create a community - a successful one - the members are your friends, employees, commercial agents, promoters and soldiers at the same time and they do not require any money for it

BUT:
- your site can be banned if you make too many friends too fast;
- myspace is absolutely youth oriented medium. Youth has specific interests (most groups are in MUSIC category) and lacks the cash.
If you sell artificial limbs, fertilizers or car clutches, it will be hard for you to create a teen community around your business (but it´s a challenge to fight for you);

Again, it is about building community. To use it the best way, community members must be able to communicate and interact with you and with the other community members.

BUT:
Its not necessary to build blogs or fora on your each and every site. Simple commenting feature makes the same work. Visitors will add new content to your site, if your products are good, they will write positive reviews you can use for your promotion, if your products are bad, you will get a free source of information how they should be improved.

There are too many blogs there these days that decreases their credit. Still lots of people thinks that blogs are only personal diaries and doesn´t trust them much.

Fora require lots of administration and maintenance work. Both blogging and fora building softwares that are available on the market also attract the spammers. If you are not good enough in coding you´ll fail having your forum full of spam or hacked.

The most of the social bookmarking sites are tech geeks. That is the challenge for developers (and you, smart webmasters) to build new ones oriented on another communities as well. Why not to have DIGG-like social bookmarker for gardeners or gays?

I agree with this fully. PR is just one of 100+ factors Google uses to judge whether your page´s content is relevant to the searched phrase based on links to your pages placed on other people´s pages.

For almost any phrase you can find a link among first 10 results pointing to site with relatively low PR. If you check all results you´ll find out they´re not ordered by PR. PR is a sort of general quality mark for your pages, it means that another pages with quite high PR point to it, but it has nothing to do with the search phrase relevancy that Google uses for sorting the search results.

Links are there to induce the traffic. You can buy links from respected PR7 site (but be sure to check if the PR of the page your link will be placed at is not 2) dealing with topics unrelated to yours, even with some specific keyword within, it will never bring that much direct traffic as a link on the site dealing with your topic (but it counts and I encourage you to place your links anywhere it could help you);

Affiliate programs if implemented well earn much more than adsense, but they require much more work and effort to get implemented and maintained and also they require a responsiblke webmaster. Adsense links are just adsense links but if you promote someone elses product and your visitor buys it - even though from someone elses online store - you are considered a part of the process and share the responsibility if something goes wrong.

For certain niches, good affiliate programs are hard to find. With some affiliate programs, you are in danger, you do not get paid, get paid less than you should or later than you should.

PPC is easier than PPA, people do not feel they must buy something if they click on the adsense link, adsense CTR is usually higher than the CTR of an affiliate link.

Adsense is simple and you get paid on time (even though with 3 months delay, if you run it here from Slovakia and get paid from Google Sweden).

Adsense works very well if you are a rss2blog or scraper software user. You can easily buy hundreds of domains, upload templates and run adsense on them. If the adsense ads are the only reasonable content on the page you are likely to get the clicks. Sure, Google will penalize you soon but by that time you earned your cash and your new domain and template is already prepared...

 

Yeah, I guess I'm guilty of the myspace-overlook thing myself. And I too don't get all the hype about it - not discounting any of the merits made above.

For ONE...

It's a fact it caters to an age group who is indeed on the net 24/7 BUT -- WHO ARE BROKE.... and more than likely can't find enough money to buy their next Pepsi much less buy what I'm offering...

So I've never spent much time thinking about going there for marketing purposes.

What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Randy

 

Myspace's value is more in the reach and visibility that a brand can enjoy by advertising on the site, rather than "selling something". What I mean by that is, an advertisement that sells a concept or a lifestyle will do better than one that is trying to have myspace users actually buy something at the moment they see an ad.

Advertisers that would do well on myspace:

Movies (they want visibility)
Coke/Pepsi (they are selling a concept or lifestyle that their drinkers should "be a part of")
Large auto makers - (Cars are all about having an image)

As you can see all of these advertisers dont convert exactly when their ad is seen, but rather when you go see a movie on friday night, you might go see Grid Iron Gang, have your coke and drive up in your new mustang that you just bought.

 

OK.... in that context, it makes perfect sense.

Thanks for clarifying.

Randy

 

good. so i shouldn't bother with myspace. Can cross that off my SEO mistake list

 

Except Number 4. I did all the mistakes. But you save me in time. I just started online business and will rectify the errors. many thanks