Common Seo Mistakes

by makhussy

Posted: 16 years ago 11 replies

SEO is about making your website search engine friendly. Below is the list of top mistakes people tend to make while optimizing a site.
1) Choosing wrong keywords for your website.
2) Long Lenth of title, description and Keywords.
3) Duplicate Content.
4) Nesting of tables.
5) Use of Frames
6) Use of Excessive flash.
7) Use of Java Script.
8) Making Unrelevent links.
9) Exceesive Use of keywords in content
10) Exceesive anchor text links.
11) Don't Update Sitemap Regularlly.
12) Don't adding fresh Content to your website.
13) Use of Black hat Technologies.
14) 301 Redirect to domain names and broken links.
15) W3c validation for your website.
16) Domain name not search engine friendlly
17) Don't have Proper use of keywords in the alt image.
18) Cut the bigger images into small parts.
19) Lack of Clear navigation
20) Poorly designed websites.
Hope you will never make these mistakes in your website and enjoy top ten ranking for your website.

#common #mistakes #seo

TheChimp 16 years ago

Great list, i can safely say i follow at least 15 of them!
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lusi34 16 years ago

Well I think "POORLY DESIGNED WEBSITE" is not SEO mistake, since google doesn't bother how do your website look like. Perhaps it's "POOORLY STRUCTURED WEBSITE" that you mean.

I have several website, truly ugly website, just contains 6 pages, but well structured and it beats other big websites that look so professional.
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Glenn Leader 16 years ago

Hi makhussy

And welcome to thew Warrior Forum

Thank you for your list of SEO blunders, a nice list,
pity that some of it is way off base.

You could turn this good post into a great post
by researching and fleshing out your list.

Why are frames bad for SEO for example?
Dup content penalties are a myth.

HTH

Glenn
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- WareTime 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Glenn Leader
  
  You could turn this good post into a great post
  by researching and fleshing out your list.
  
  Agreed. OP might actually know something about SEO if he did that. Too bad we can't assign homework around here. For now I'll have to conclude he knows ctrl-c and ctrl-v
  
  In fact here is a decent list of myths put together by someone that does seo for living and is reputable.
  http://searchengineland.com/top-ten-...eo-myths-12052
  
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- Glenn Leader 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Consult-code
  
  Very Useful Information I must say..
  
  Useful to who?
  
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GarryMSayer 16 years ago

Two words immediately spring to mind here:

'Copy' and 'Paste'.

Garry.

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edgray 16 years ago

Originally Posted by makhussy

Long Lenth of title, description and Keywords.

Having these too long won't kill your SEO efforts, maybe hinder them slightly.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Duplicate Content.

There is no duplicate content penalty. This will not affect your position in the SERPs. If you have Dup Content on your site, Google will simply index 1 instance of the content. Duplicate content only counts for content on 1 site, not across other site too.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Nesting of tables.

This shouldn't stop you ranking well.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Use of Excessive flash.

In itself, this shouldn't hinder your SEO efforts - flash is becoming easier to SEO all the time. Use SWFObject to embed it into HTML and offer an HTML version of your content.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Use of Java Script.

Google has no problem reading JavaScript.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Making Unrelevent links.

There's no reason that links out of your site, relevant or otherwise will affect your standing in the SERPs.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Don’t Update Sitemap Regularlly.

You only need to do this when you add new pages or move pages. And this isn't a necessity for ranking well.

Originally Posted by makhussy

Don’t adding fresh Content to your website.

Fresh content does not equal rankings

Originally Posted by makhussy

W3c validation for your website.

There's no reason why your site needs to validate - Google have said this isn't necessary (but I recommend it for standards compliance anyway)

Originally Posted by makhussy

Domain name not search engine friendlly

It helps to have your keywords in your domain for sure, but I don't know how you'd make it un-search engine friendly...

Originally Posted by makhussy

ut the bigger images into small parts.

This has nothing to do with SEO

Originally Posted by makhussy

Poorly designed websites.

The design of the site has little to do with SEO. Google doesn't judge design.

Hope that clears things up a little
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Marhelper 16 years ago

A lot of people would have a problem with #3.
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turbohips 16 years ago

lol this post is too funny.
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- lightanjoy 16 years ago
  
  It is good to have lots of feedback on a post so us 'growin newbies' don't get too far led astray hi! hi! (makes yer head spin sometimes ....)
  
  So what would a good list of top 10 SEO mistakes look like then? (And the natural antidote? ... without any side effects hopefully)
  
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butters 16 years ago

@edgray This has nothing to do with SEO (Image size) It does, if you have a slow loading website due to image size, that is considered unfriendly by google and not liked.
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