Monday, December 26, 2011

What SEO Tricks You Must Avoid

There are many things that you should take care of for SEO, but there are also some things that you must avoid and we are going to take a look at some of these. Here is a list of items that you must avoid for SEO campaign.

SEO DON'TS List : What SEO Tricks You Must Avoid

1. Do not submit your site to spam submission directories. Don’t pay to companies to submit to 1,000 search engines or 500 directories etc.

2. Never link invisible images or single pixel images.

3. Don’t go for any cheap SEO company. Choosing an SEO company should involve a lot of research and questions with the companies you’re considering.

4. Never include invisible text on your pages.

5. Don’t spread your content over several domains. Know the pros and cons of using sub-domains and additional domains.

6. Don’t waste your time submitting your URL to search engines through SEO vendors.

7. Don’t make an all-Flash website. Flash based website are uncrawable.

8. Don’t target overly general keywords. Try target the more specific keywords.

9. Don't use javascript based navigation menu.

10. Avoid keyword stuffing. Don’t stuff keywords in your page footer with lightly-colored or hidden text.

11. Don’t have the same title element on every page.

12. Don’t allow both www.yourdomain.com and domain.com to resolve to your home page. Both are different for search engines and there could be duplicate contents issue.

13. Don't use ajax to load the  page contents but don’t ignore usability.

14. Avoid duplicate contents. Try to create contents that are unique.

15. Be careful when getting back-links by exchanging links with others. Reciprocal links aren’t bad by default, but if most of your inbound links are the result of link trades, they won’t help much. Reciprocal links should only be made with quality, relevant web sites.

16. Don’t request the same exact anchor text on all links to your site. This is an obvious sign of unnatural link building. Your link building should look natural, and varied anchor text will help.


17. Avoid Spamdexing. Your target keyword and closely-related terms should appear in the page title, description meta tag, and page copy but don’t over do it.

18. Don't use Doorway Pages.

19. Avoid Cloaking (search engine dodging technique)

20. Don't ignore Google Webmaster Guidelines. These guidelines are very important and help more than anything to rank higher.


Hope you will find it very useful.

Good luck !









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