What is your biggest mistake and biggest success in SEO?

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  1. #1
    Hello all,

    This question is for all SEOs....What is your biggest mistake & success in optimizing a website for search engines?
     
    edfranklin, Mar 24, 2011 IP
  2. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    Biggest mistake: When i first started out I wrote these super keyword stuffed articles.. Didn't work that well.
    Biggest success: Learned how to track down and create high authority, content related, dofollow backlinks to rank well for hard keywords.
     
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  3. rain21

    rain21 Active Member

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    #3
    most people have these mistakes
    - high density of keywords
    - choosing high competitive keywords
    - spelling mistakes of keywords
    - duplicate content
     
    rain21, Mar 24, 2011 IP
  4. suhailseo

    suhailseo Peon

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    #4
    the biggest mistake of seo use doublecate content and speelling mistake.
     
    suhailseo, Mar 24, 2011 IP
  5. jaycutler

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    I did a hidden link test on the homepage of the largest wireless carrier in the world and got the site penalized lol
     
    jaycutler, Mar 24, 2011 IP
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    johnwho Peon

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    #6
    Creating backlinks too fast..
     
    johnwho, Mar 24, 2011 IP
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    I think fast submission of directory.
     
    anju4, Mar 24, 2011 IP
  8. chinasa

    chinasa Peon

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    My biggest mistake was when i started and didn't know anything about keyword density and stuffed my article with keywords and i also had less informative content.
    Success was when i learned how to do proper Seo.
     
    chinasa, Mar 25, 2011 IP
  9. China_girl

    China_girl Well-Known Member

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    My biggest mistake, allotting each keyword of the article with a hyper-link to my company site, so eventually my blog which had good ranking for more than year got banned from the blogger.
    My success, when I learnt from my mistake and done the tagging, hyper-link for my new domain site and got the month old (new) blog on first page of google ;)
     
    China_girl, Mar 26, 2011 IP
  10. KeegiKolmas

    KeegiKolmas Greenhorn

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    I think i beat everyone here.

    When i finished my website in end of 2010, i decided i dont want nigerian scammers to hang around on my site, so i blocked all IP-s exept Estonian, well, that did not work out very good, Blocked google as well :D
     
    KeegiKolmas, Mar 27, 2011 IP
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    Yes.. right ..i am agree with you..
     
    leenasmith, Mar 28, 2011 IP
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    capstonic Well-Known Member

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    #12
    I am not aware from PPC, its my mistake.
    At least i am in the SEO growing industry, its my success.
     
    capstonic, Apr 7, 2011 IP
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    BONG! That's a fail guy!:):D
     
    tiddles, Apr 7, 2011 IP
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    #14
    1. Publishing some content notes I forgot to rewrite - 98% of site disappeared from serps overnight.

    2. Forgetting to put my target keywords in the articles I published

    3. Using Wordpress plugins without bothering to find out what they actually do and understanding them properly, just because everyone says they are great.
     
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  15. unknownpray

    unknownpray Active Member

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    My biggest Mistakes is using high density of keywords , choosing high competitive keywords and spelling mistakes of keywords .No great achievement yet.:(
     
    unknownpray, Jul 4, 2011 IP
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    felku Peon

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    My biggest mistake was choosing competitive keywords
     
    felku, Jul 7, 2011 IP
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    #17
    This made me chuckle.
     
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    Mistake - Picking the wrong Keyword.
    Success -Quality content
     
    TheCube, Jul 9, 2011 IP
  19. mmfashion

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    #19
    change a large of titles,keywords,descriptions in a short time, this is a bigger mistake.
     
    mmfashion, Jul 13, 2011 IP