SEO Mistakes you saw at other People

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by necromanc, Feb 24, 2007.

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    I'm curious in your daily surfing what are the most common SEO mistakes you saw on people websites.Let's make a big list, and learn from it.
     
    necromanc, Feb 24, 2007 IP
  2. Angelus

    Angelus Well-Known Member

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    Not having their main keyword in Title :)

    p.l.u.r.
     
    Angelus, Feb 24, 2007 IP
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    ez-online-money.com Peon

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    I'm a frequent article marketer, and I just feel a little...awkward, to say the least, when I see people submitting their articles on directories without anchor text in the link to their site. Instead they just have their URL. That's just me though.
     
    ez-online-money.com, Feb 24, 2007 IP
  4. coolsitez

    coolsitez Well-Known Member

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    The worst SEO I have seen was by a self-claiming SEO professional. It nicely keyword-stuffed in meta tag like;

    SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,
    SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,SEO,

    They also used a frame at the bottom for link exchange purpose, placing people's links in there...

    It wasn't just a site about SEO. They claimed to be an SEO professional and CHARGING MONEY FOR A CRAP SERVICE!!

    Their PR was 0 but their service was to help webmasters gain PR...

    When I checked the site last time, it was already dead. :D
     
    coolsitez, Feb 24, 2007 IP
  5. knopix

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    bad title tags is the most common mistake I see.
     
    knopix, Feb 24, 2007 IP
  6. thegypsy

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    I can sum mine up with a post on Bad SEO - has some of my favs
     
    thegypsy, Feb 24, 2007 IP
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    #7
    Far too many outgoing links on one page...
     
    autorave, Feb 24, 2007 IP
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    With me the same as above the most common mistake I personally see is not using proper title tags.
     
    MadGenius, Feb 24, 2007 IP
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    coolsitez Well-Known Member

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    Do you know some Dmoz pages have more than 100 links? :D

    100 more links on a page DON'T always mean the page is considered as a link farm.

    Anyhow, the worst I have seen was like...over 1k links on a page, HOME PAGE! :eek: c'mon man.
     
    coolsitez, Feb 25, 2007 IP
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    Crap title tags nuff said:eek:
     
    Toopac, Feb 25, 2007 IP
  11. Cheap SEO Services

    Cheap SEO Services <------DoFollow Backlinks

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    I laughed at a SEO site that had nothing but Google Adsense ads plastered all over the page. That was funny but the funniest part was all the ads pointing to gambling sites.

    Col :)
     
    Cheap SEO Services, Feb 25, 2007 IP
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    No text on the webpage - Text was in photos - no alt text
     
    Kaptain Kangaroo, Feb 25, 2007 IP
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    alexei_aus Active Member

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    #13
    no bold and h1 around keywords
     
    alexei_aus, Feb 25, 2007 IP
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    rzvagelsky Well-Known Member

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    #14

    A link farm has nothing to do with how many links you have on a page. Google and most SE's recommend that you keep the number of links on each page to less than 100. So does that mean that having more than 100 links on a page is bad SEO? For DMOZ...probably not since they are an authority site that will still pass a considerable amount of benefit to each of the links. But for all other sites, it is just poor SEO.
     
    rzvagelsky, Feb 25, 2007 IP
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    Most common u can notice is bad/no title tags ..
     
    fadetoblack, Feb 25, 2007 IP