Common SEO Mistakes

[SEO AUS]

The following is a brief list of items web designers, web developers, and web optimizers should try to avoid when performing SEO on a website:

1) Splash pages:

Not only splash pages are bad for SEO, it’s also high on the usability NO list. Take this one step further, sometimes these pages are 100% flash, making it impossible for search engines to spider the page, and follow the link.

2) Flash Menus that can’t be spidered:

Many designers make this mistake by using Flash menus such as those fade-in/out and animated menus. Yep, sometimes they look the business, but they can’t be seen by the search engines; and thus the links in the Flash menu will not be followed.

3) Image and Flash Content:

Dont embed important content (such as target keywords) in Flash and images

4) Ajax heavy sites

Dont try to impress too much, specifically by deploying massive Ajax features (particularly for navigation purposes), as this is a big SEO mistake.

5) Unfriendly URLs:

Most blog or CMS platforms have a friendly URL feature built-in, however, not every blogger is taking advantage of this. Friendly URL’s are good for both your human audience and the search engines. The URL is also an important spot where your keywords should appear.

If you want to know more SEO mistakes or want to avail SEO services in Australia, please visit the site seoaus.com.au

[pappukumar]

Hi,
Really thanx for this post i never understood this problem in our site.

[seocorporation]

Although using flash can help a site look great but it is redundant ( SEO wise)

[Ryan Getty]

Thanks for making efforts for sharing, can you please elaborate on difference between friendly and unfriendly URLs.

[devashishseo]

Yes, these are some point which we should take care while doing the seo of any site.

[noelagnote]

Splash pages affects the usability of a website.

[IntactSEO]

Flash is pretty much redundant now, if you want full platform (iPhone/iPad) then you wont use Flash. Plus it's does limit what you can do to your site SEO wise, menus are a great source for keywords that appear on every page so you want those as actual text.

[deepaksahay09]

Thanks for sharing this knowledge, And I hope you will be share better knowledge in future about SEO.

Thank you.

[anuragini123]

Originally Posted by SEO AUS

The following is a brief list of items web designers, web developers, and web optimizers should try to avoid when performing SEO on a website:

1) Splash pages:

Not only splash pages are bad for SEO, it’s also high on the usability NO list. Take this one step further, sometimes these pages are 100% flash, making it impossible for search engines to spider the page, and follow the link.

2) Flash Menus that can’t be spidered:

Many designers make this mistake by using Flash menus such as those fade-in/out and animated menus. Yep, sometimes they look the business, but they can’t be seen by the search engines; and thus the links in the Flash menu will not be followed.

3) Image and Flash Content:

Dont embed important content (such as target keywords) in Flash and images

4) Ajax heavy sites

Dont try to impress too much, specifically by deploying massive Ajax features (particularly for navigation purposes), as this is a big SEO mistake.

5) Unfriendly URLs:

Most blog or CMS platforms have a friendly URL feature built-in, however, not every blogger is taking advantage of this. Friendly URL’s are good for both your human audience and the search engines. The URL is also an important spot where your keywords should appear.

If you want to know more SEO mistakes or want to avail SEO services in Australia, please visit the site seoaus.com.au

Thanks for showing your great efforts, informative notes. I bookmarked it.

[AmmyTisdale]

Originally Posted by SEO AUS

The following is a brief list of items web designers, web developers, and web optimizers should try to avoid when performing SEO on a website:

1) Splash pages:

Not only splash pages are bad for SEO, it’s also high on the usability NO list. Take this one step further, sometimes these pages are 100% flash, making it impossible for search engines to spider the page, and follow the link.

2) Flash Menus that can’t be spidered:

Many designers make this mistake by using Flash menus such as those fade-in/out and animated menus. Yep, sometimes they look the business, but they can’t be seen by the search engines; and thus the links in the Flash menu will not be followed.

3) Image and Flash Content:

Dont embed important content (such as target keywords) in Flash and images

4) Ajax heavy sites

Dont try to impress too much, specifically by deploying massive Ajax features (particularly for navigation purposes), as this is a big SEO mistake.

5) Unfriendly URLs:

Most blog or CMS platforms have a friendly URL feature built-in, however, not every blogger is taking advantage of this. Friendly URL’s are good for both your human audience and the search engines. The URL is also an important spot where your keywords should appear.

If you want to know more SEO mistakes or want to avail SEO services in Australia, please visit the site seoaus.com.au

Does Flash Menus open automatically when a user will take the curson on it? New in this field.

[charls]

Here i think 10 most common mistakes in SEO.
1) Targetting the wrong keywords
2) Ignoring the Title tag
3) A Flash website without a html alternative
4) JavaScript Menus
5) Lack of consistency and maintenance
6) Concentrating too much on meta tags
7) Using only Images for Headings
8) Ignoring URLs
9)Backlink spamming
10) Lack of keywords in the content
In my opinion these are the major and common mistakes.
Active Chirocare

[sohan Singh]

Originally Posted by charls

Here i think 10 most common mistakes in SEO.
1) Targetting the wrong keywords
2) Ignoring the Title tag
3) A Flash website without a html alternative
4) JavaScript Menus
5) Lack of consistency and maintenance
6) Concentrating too much on meta tags
7) Using only Images for Headings
8) Ignoring URLs
9)Backlink spamming
10) Lack of keywords in the content
In my opinion these are the major and common mistakes.
Active Chirocare

Ya these could be big mistakes of SEO. Add one more getting links from no follow links.

[jonathan]

Yes, I agree with your post. You have mentioned all the points very correct because we generally don't know the exact way to perform SEO and do these kind of mistakes repetitively and it will lead to bad traffic to our site.

[sohan Singh]

Originally Posted by charls

Here i think 10 most common mistakes in SEO.
1) Targetting the wrong keywords
2) Ignoring the Title tag
3) A Flash website without a html alternative
4) JavaScript Menus
5) Lack of consistency and maintenance
6) Concentrating too much on meta tags
7) Using only Images for Headings
8) Ignoring URLs
9)Backlink spamming
10) Lack of keywords in the content
In my opinion these are the major and common mistakes.
Active Chirocare

Add one more: Creating back no follow back links. It costs time but gives mere link link only.

[airsidelimo]

Points which are mentioned above, about the sites I'm totally agree. Coz these are the problem which always happens in bad results.

[ankitneuro]

thanks for all these tips but I believe that the latest versions of flash can be crawled

[andy25i]

Well these are quite interesting and important points in SEO. Thanks for sharing this post with us.

[schumannrober]

Duplicacy is the common problem that most of SEO do.

[Logicspice]

I think targeting wrong keyword is main mistake of SEO.

[iidesu]

I don't think these could be the "common" mistakes. rather, I think these are pretty "rare" mistakes.