4 Deadly Seo Mistakes You Must Avoid

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4 Deadly SEO Mistakes You Must Avoid

By : Cheow Yu Yuan

Are you getting mediocre results from SEO? If yes, this article is for you. To achieve success with SEO, you must target the right key phrases and build links consistently. It is a continuous process - not a one-time effort.

With this in mind, let us take a look at the 4 deadly SEO mistakes that you must avoid at all cost. These are the mistakes that many optimizers made that prevent them from getting successful results:

1. You do not tag your pages with relevant key phrases. This is the most common mistake that many webmasters made. I believe you have seen websites that place only their company names in their Title tags. Title tags are words that appear on the top left hand side of your Internet browser. You must place keywords in your Title tag because search engines give a lot of weight to it. The title tag is like the Title of a book. It tells readers what the book is about. Likewise, the title tag tells search engines what your website is about. If you are trying to get higher rankings for a keyword but it is not present in your title tag, it is very hard for search engines to award you with high rankings. Therefore, make sure that your title tag describes the content of your page and place important keywords right at the front of it.

2. You do not have enough content or your content is outdated. SEO is more than just tagging your pages. You need to have enough content for search engines to read. To rank high on search engine listings, you must place keywords in your content. Moreover, if your website content is outdated, search engines will visit your site less often, and thus view it as less important. This also prevents your site from getting higher rankings in search engine listings.

3. You optimize the wrong keywords. If you are trying to optimize keywords that are too generic, it is very hard for you to achieve success from your SEO effort. This is because you will get yourself into a more competitive battlefield with other optimizers. So, spend some time to do your research and look for key phrases with lesser competition but relevant to your business. Remember that if you optimize keywords that are not relevant or too generic, even if you achieve high rankings for them, there will be no conversion.

4. You do not build link consistently. Link building is a process of getting more incoming links to your website. Quality inbound links will help your website to achieve higher rankings for competitive keywords. But link building is a continuous process. If you never do it consistently, you will not achieve good result from SEO. So, always build links consistently by using article marketing, blog commenting, directory submissions, and other common strategies that optimizers are using.

These are the 4 deadly SEO mistakes that you must avoid at all cost. Good luck!

::superman:: Reviewed by ::superman:: on 2nd May 2012. 4 Deadly Seo Mistakes You Must Avoid 4 Deadly SEO Mistakes You Must Avoid By : Cheow Yu Yuan Are you getting mediocre results from SEO? If yes, this article is for you. To achieve success with SEO, you must target the right key phrases and build links consistently. It is a continuous process - not a one-time effort. With this in mind, let us take a look at the 4 deadly SEO mistakes that you must avoid at all cost. These are the mistakes that many optimizers made that prevent them from getting successful results: Rating: 5

[MikeKepztry]

I think the forth step is the reason why most people fail. You need to consistently build links, slowly it rises higher, too many people dump 10,000 backlinks on a site and let it sit, then dump another 10,000 a week later. Consistency is key, Seo takes patience


Also with the new penguin update coming out you want to make sure that you optimize for a great user experience as this is what google is going to be looking for.

[rocky12]

Thanks for useful post.

[alvaroamdo]

I would also like to add:

too much keyword density in your content (like having your keyword appear 10 times in a single paragraph)

[happyvalentine]

Awesome post. You are helping many people by creating and sharing. Keep going on.

[jambajukebox]

Don't forget about getting links from related websites!

[DrySand]

Well said! But these are not only the 4 but couple of more are there that should also be avoided, like cloaking etc.

[Freddy63]

what is link cloaking? And how google going to know we're doing it?

[electroman]

Yes you're right. Not only drip-feeding links helps your site from getting over-optimized penalties, it also results in better results (although a little slower)

---------- Post added at 08:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:28 PM ----------

what is link cloaking? And how google going to know we're doing it?

Link cloaking is a technique which helps you hide your long URLs so people don't know that they are using affiliate links as people hate it when they get to know that someone else is getting paid for their purchases. Also, it helps ensure that you'll get the sale because it doesn't give them the option to copy the link or extract your affiliate code and use their own.

I've heard that google hates link cloaking but don't know exactly about it.

[gfxguru]

the best is article with link submission