Thread: What are common SEO mistakes?

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Thanks

To start lot of projects and not ending any of them

Focus on one

Targetting the wrong keywords

Ignoring title, heading tags

Too much flash on site

Missed keywords in the content or over-using them

Doing only off page SEO forgetting about importance of on page SEO

Using duplicate content

Building links only from one source, links density issue

Building spamming low quality links too fast especially for new sites

Picking wrong Content Management System
Using static sites instead of Wordpress
Duplicate Content Pages
Autoblogging
Over-Optimized Pages
Poorly Written, Unoptimized Content
Lot of flash animation
Not using headers, titles, meta descriptions
Not using bold, italic

Not Enough Content

Writing 100-200 words aritcles don't make lot of sense
Good length is ~500-1000

Spamming backlinks

For new sites it is ranking killer

Picking wrong keywords

You should avoid:

Too long domain name
All links made to the home page
Keyword stuffed Title
Fluorescent colors on your pages

Over optimizing own sites
Picking wrong keywords for seo campaigns and loosing lot of money because of that
Choosing wrong titles
Creating not effective landing pages

As per my understanding duplicate content is the biggest mistake that most of the admins makes, which is simply waste as Google will crawls only fresh contents. Second mistake is by inserting broken links., you will lose your visitors hereby.

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.

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.