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8 SEO Mistakes To Avoid For Better Ranking

Feb 3, 2013 by Rahul A Nair 11 Comments

seo mistakes - seo tipsSEO is changing. So you need to know latest SEO trends. After Google launch Panda algorithm update in 2011 and Penguin algorithm update in 2012 lot of websites are get penalized. While Google panda punish for quality and uniqueness, Penguin punish for low quality backlinks. Link building in wrong way is one of the biggest mistake. Are You Still Making Any of these Mistakes in Search engine optimization?

8 Common mistakes in SEO

1. Over Optimization

Over optimization for search engines is will leads to lose your sites rankings. Keyword stuffing is an over optimization. Repeating keywords again and again in your contents, heading tags, title tags can penalize your site. Excessive Backlinking and excess use of H1 tags will also be over optimization.

2. Anchor Text Diversity

Using same anchor text in links are really waste now, and also search engines will consider it as spam. This is one of biggest mistake that more people are doing. Rich anchor text are worked before but it doesn’t work anymore. Here are some solutions:

  • Don’t use same targeting keywords more times.
  • More than keywords you should use click here, your website name, your website URL, my site, your name or anything like this while you building backlinks.

3. Unnatural links

Buying backlinks is not a legal way of SEO. Links with more same URL will a big mistake. You should use other URL more than Home page. Building links very fast is also a unnatural way of link building. For a successful link building it is essential to balance nofollow and dofollow backlinks.

4. Low quality backlinks

Building low quality backlinks is an another bad seo technique. Backlinks from forums, and forums signature is such a low quality links. More backlinks from guest comments are also not a good backlinks.

5. Less internal links

Internal linking is a great SEO technique. But most of people may not use it. Internal linking helps to minimize the bounce rate and visitors will continue in your site with other related topics.

6. Do-follow comment section

Nofollow links can avoid spam links. Everyone need backlinks, so they are hunting for that. Most of blogs and websites are now nofollow. Almost all social networking sites are using no-follow tag.
Here are some reasons to avoid do-follow links in comment section:

  • Search engines may punish your site whether you link to any low quality sites or P0rN sites.
  • The other reason is your page rank is divided, and goes to each outgoing links.
  • Search engines will consider your site as link farm.

7. Missing ALT text in Images

It is a careless mistake, missing ALT text in images. Image ALT text is such an important thing in SEO. You should use relevant keywords in alt text to describe the image. It will bring you lot of traffic to your site from images search too.

8. Ignoring social media

Social media  doesn’t affect strongly, but it affect SEO. Google is using social signals in search engine optimization. Sharing your contents in social sites can gain some likes, traffic and some SEO improvement.

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Comments

  1. Emily says

    Feb 4, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    As many articles about mistakes in SEO I’m reading as good. I understand that I’m making a lot of mistakes. Thank you that you are helping to such people as I am. 🙂

    Reply
  2. Shailesh Vyas says

    Mar 23, 2013 at 11:45 pm

    Rahul I would suggest here to improve your English Grammar. Rest article is very helpful and useful for new SEOs.. Keep it up.

    Reply
    • Rahul A Nair says

      Mar 24, 2013 at 12:10 am

      Thank you Shailesh, i will try 🙂

      Reply
  3. Pablo says

    Mar 30, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    great article, thank you.

    Reply
  4. Transform BPO says

    Apr 13, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Now a days google has become more strict towards website. So these are the point to be consider in 2013. nice article to help SEO guys. Keep it up man!!!

    Reply
  5. Gaurav Inventions says

    Jun 1, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    Yah You are right but the main problem is that, now the Google is Extra Smart, It releases algorithm updated after each month and more than 10% ranking effected..? so what we do with natural linking but i think On page Optimization is the best way of getting ranked in google 🙂

    Thanks

    Reply
  6. masoud says

    Sep 25, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    twitter links are nofollow but when I share my pages in twitter I can see growing of SERP even in google.

    Reply
  7. Taufik says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    We like SOCIAL NETWORKING instead of doing SEO because of GOOGLE always change rules.

    Reply
  8. aarti says

    Oct 12, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Mistakes can be made by anyone, but learning by mistakes is important. SEO is very important for any website. So, we have to careful while doing Seo.
    Thank you for post such a useful article.

    Reply
  9. Abhilasha Sharma says

    May 1, 2017 at 5:57 pm

    It’s actually a great and useful piece of info. I am satisfied that you shared this helpful information with us. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
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