Top 10 SEO Mistakes

[liquidgraph]

Thank you for the really good tips, I have to say that those are the basics that all SEOs should avoid, to avoid being penalized by google, or not ahieving any increase in ranks.

[davin.master]

Nice tips and advice for to improve our better SEO results.

Thanks a lots..........

[SM911]

thanks for the good share. 10 important notes for SEO mistakes.

[andrew39]

Maybe u could add lacking patience on the list.I have noticed that so may people are too anxious to achieve success!!

[bossaway]

Thank you for sharing this is the important basic that SEO man should do

[austinjames]

this is a good share!
experience is really a good teacher.
thanks for sharing it.

[mark spenser]

but dear, generally majority of people know this.
it would be grateful if you reflect upon internal link structure analysis.

[glbrtsoms]

Originally Posted by yasas177

There are so many discussions about SEO. But most forgot about thinks they do is write or wrong. Here are Top 10 SEO mistakes made by most SEO companies.

1. Targetting the wrong keywords
This is a mistake many people make and what is worse – even experienced SEO experts make it. People choose keywords that in their mind are descriptive of their website but the average users just may not search them. For instance, if you have a relationship site, you might discover that “relationship guide” does not work for you, even though it has the “relationship” keyword, while “dating advice” works like a charm. Choosing the right keywords can make or break your SEO campaign. Even if you are very resourceful, you can't think on your own of all the great keywords but a good keyword suggestion tool, for instance, the Website Keyword Suggestion tool will help you find keywords that are good for your site.

2. Ignoring the Title tag
Leaving the <title> tag empty is also very common. This is one of the most important places to have a keyword, because not only does it help you in optimization but the text in your <title> tag shows in the search results as your page title.

3. A Flash website without a html alternative
Flash might be attractive but not to search engines and users. If you really insist that your site is Flash-based and you want search engines to love it, provide an html version. Here are some more tips for optimizing Flash sites. Search engines don't like Flash sites for a reason – a spider can't read Flash content and therefore can't index it.

4. JavaScript Menus
Using JavaScript for navigation is not bad as long as you understand that search engines do not read JavaScript and build your web pages accordingly. So if you have JavaScript menus you can't do without, you should consider build a sitemap (or putting the links in a noscript tag) so that all your links will be crawlable.

5. Lack of consistency and maintenance
Our friend Rob from Blackwood Productions often encounters clients, who believe that once you optimize a site, it is done foreve. If you want to be successful, you need to permanently optimize your site, keep an eye on the competition and – changes in the ranking algorithms of search engines.

6. Concentrating too much on meta tags
A lot of people seem to think SEO is about getting your meta keywords and description correct! In fact, meta tags are becoming (if not already) a thing of the past. You can create your meta keywords and descriptions but don't except to rank well only because of this.

7. Using only Images for Headings
Many people think that an image looks better than text for headings and menus. Yes, an image can make your site look more distinctive but in terms of SEO images for headings and menus are a big mistake because h2, h2, etc. tags and menu links are important SEO items. If you are afraid that your h1 h2, etc. tags look horrible, try modifying them in a stylesheet or consider this approach: (Link removed) Using background-image to replace text | stopdesign.

8. Ignoring URLs
Many people underestimate how important a good URL is. Dynamic page names are still very frequent and no keywords in the URL is more a rule than an exception. Yes, it is possible to rank high even without keywords in the URL but all being equal, if you have keywords in the URL (the domain itself, or file names, which are part of the URL), this gives you additional advantage over your competitors. Keywords in URLs are more important for MSN and Yahoo! but even with Google their relative weight is high, so there is no excuse for having keywordless URLs.

9. Backlink spamming
It is a common delusion that it more backlinks are ALWAYS better and because of this web masters resort to link farms, forum/newgroup spam etc., which ultimately could lead to getting their site banned. In fact, what you need are quality backlinks. Here are some more information on The Importance of Backlinks

10. Lack of keywords in the content
Once you focus on your keywords, modify your content and put the keywords wherever it makes sense. It is even better to make them bold or highlight them.

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[redesignunit]

Great information here thanks for sharing

[redesignunit]

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[stupid camel]

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[Bestone]

Thanks for sharing 10 Important tips for SEO and that would definitely a good stuff for the SEO .he will defiantly learn alot

[renantech]

thanks for sharing the information to all of us..

[pmorrison2588]

Actually many users don't have this idea that the points you have mentioned are how important. By avoiding these mistakes they can actually achieve good results. Thanks to you, that you generously shared them with us.

[depapepee]

This is one of the most important places to have a keyword, because not only does it help you in optimization but the text in your <title> tag shows in the search results as your page title.

[Zukario]

I want to say thank you for the tips that will help me to become better at seo and i will sure to read these carefully in the future to avoid making common seo mistakes stated above.

[plgffl]

Great post and I think I gonna try to avoid that in my SEO work!

[onlinemarketing1]

Thanks very much for your nice tips. They are really useful~~

[SprintSero]

Originally Posted by yasas177

10. Lack of keywords in the content
Once you focus on your keywords, modify your content and put the keywords wherever it makes sense. It is even better to make them bold or highlight them.

As we are talking about that content is the king all the time, that we ingore that the KW density is also important.

Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.

It is important for your main keywords to have the correct keyword density to rank well in Search Engines.

[bossaway]

The first mistake which is really need to consider is targeting wrong keywords as you stated.