Thursday 4 July 2013

The 10 Worst SEO mistakes

The 10 Worst SEO mistakes !!!!!

If you want a top ranking website don't make these terrible mistakes.

1.    Keyword stuffing

I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best
I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best I am the best

Website content that is repeated over and over again is a big no.  Take the time to add good quality content into your website. 

2.    Use your own content

Write your own content and be original.  Don't be a copy cat.

3.    Broken links are very bad

There is nothing worse than going onto a website and clicking on a page and getting a 404 error. I immediately leave the website and I am sure other potential clients do the same.  How are you going to be trusted if your website is broken?  Take the time to fix these errors. 

4.    Never use duplicated content. 

Once again take the time to make your content on your website original and unique.  Duplicate copy is boring to the end user and nobody likes to read the same information over and over.  Duplicate copy is boring to the end user and nobody likes to read the same information over and over.  Duplicate copy is boring to the end user and nobody likes to read the same information over and over.  Get it !!!  The search engine crawler will not index pages with duplicate content.

5.    Bad Links

People associate you with the company you keep.  This is the same principle with website links.  Rather have 1 good link than 10 bad links.  Bad links can affect the ranking of your website.

6.    Optimise the correct keywords

Use keywords relevant to your industry.  It is pointless to rank on keywords that are not relevant to your business. 

7.    Meta Tag Description

The meta tag description explains the page to a browser.  You need to write a good description or Google's algorithm might decide the content is so badly written and replace it with its own version of what is on the page.

8.     Navigation

Make your website easy to navigate.  Let the user get from point A to B easily.  There is nothing worse than trying to find something and you end up going in circles. 

9.    Attractive website

Make your website interesting and attractive.  You want to keep people on your website and if your website is boring or unattractive you will start to experience a high bounce rate.  This is never good.

10.    Cluttered pages

I hate going onto a page where there is so much going on, that your eye just never gets a chance to rest on a relevant topic.  No one likes a busy shopping centre.