Please discuss some top SEO mistakes

Lets make this thread useful for all the fellow SEO beginners and let them know some of the top SEO mistakes we all need to prevent for quality SEO.

 

No use of key word or key phrase, bad anchor text, Paid links are top SEO mistakes.

 

A big mistake I see all the time is duplicate content. Creating two sites that are essentially the same.

 

Same key words ovevr and over again with no rationality/
Too many links between pages within the site

 

Over Use of keyword - Keyword stuffing.

Bad code programming

No unique content.

 

targeting the wrong keywords

bad links

poor page title

 

stuffing of keywords...

 

paid links and getting backlinks too fast is my seo mistakes

 

Not using unique page titles for each page.

 

Depends if you;re in the sandbox, my new domian was in the sandbox for 8 months i obtained 515 backlinks. It exventually came out of the sandbox (8 months) It now appears position 4 in SERP rankings for most popular search term.
If you're in the sandbox obtain as many backlinks as possible.

 

Lack of an cohesive internal linking strategy.

 

Please explain Advantage. Thanks!

 

I think the worst thing you can do is have a site that covers more than one niche. you absolutely have to focus your energy to one thing on one domain. think LSI (latent semantic indexing)/

And, not to pump up my own ebook here, but this is covered with a whole bunch of other stuff in Wordpress SEO Blueprint. Check it out!

 

A couple of extra errors that are commonly made....

Focusing on the search engine and not the visitor....by producing a nicely laid out page, with quality content, and meeting coding standards, you will get good results from the SE's...

Using Auto generated content - A grey/black hat site may rank high for a short time....but then it will be gone

trying to cheat the serps....
A prime example - buying links on DP is a folly...Google staff have multiple user accounts on here (trust me )...when a link sale request of any value is posted (Pr5 sites upwards I would guess)....the link sellers pm ANY interested parties with the URL of the sites involved....


What a gift for Google....

I have a friend who bought a 'quality link package' for a lot of money (PR7's) and it turned out the seller was selling links in comments sections.

Two days later ALL of the pages/sites in the link package (over 20) were showing massivley reducuced PR and were locked down, with all links removed.

The moral of the story?? Create quality content and promote your site well so you gain genuine ORGANIC links from quality sites...that will stay in place for years to come. Human greed always enters the equation and link sellers often takea risk for 'just one more sale'

OR/

Buy links in total secret and not on a forum

 

Not realizing that most of what people consider to be SEO is really just proper information architecture, Web copywriting, Web site development (not the same as Web site design, which thankfully has no bearing on SEO), and marketing.

 

bad linking strategies..

bad theme based pages..

 

I agree, just make sure you keep it up when you are out of the sand box. consistency is the key.

Other mistakes

not using main keywords in H1's

Over Submitting site to engines

 

A wasted link from an inner page to your home page = Home

A good link from an inner page to your home page = Keyword phrase Home — for example, Blue Widgets Home

 

Great tip!

 

bad link exchange, i.e. with sites that arent relevant