Avoid SEO Mistakes

Mistakes in SEO are more common than good practice. There is so much speculation of “magical meta tags”, “keyword density optimum percentages” and “ultimate unlimited backlinks”. The truth is none of these things really exist. So many people devote all there time to trying to find these, this time could be used to make your site better and more user friendly or to better the service / content you provide to your readers.

So what do you class as a mistake in SEO? Well I just think to myself, would I do that if I was just trying to design a website well? For example if I was designing a website, would I decide to keyword stuff for no apparent reason? If I thought I wouldn’t then I would class it as a mistake. Anything that goes against good web design practice is bad SEO.

Do you really think that you can get your site higher in the search engines by spamming blogs? Regardless of whether they are do-follow or no-follow? I really don’t think this will work, so don’t waste your time doing this. I would spend the time submitting your sites to directories or requesting links from other webmasters.

Another mistake that people think is “you will not get anywhere without backlinks”, this is partially true. However you shouldn’t just to decide to start a massive link building campaign. The best links that get you to the top are the ones that are formed organically. The ones when people link to your site because it is useful and not because you have asked them too. Do you think Google email people asking them to place a link to there site?, but yet they still have more backlinks than anyone else in the game!

Spend your time wisely with SEO, bettering your sites usability and accessibility, keeping your content up to date and maybe requesting the odd link every now and then and I promise you, you will get to the top with hard work.